Amazon enters AI safety fray, calls for "rigorous testing," safeguards

The company provided its views in response to a Reuters inquiry days after many of the largest labs called for slower AI development, following an outcry among researchers and others who fear the technology could evade human control and threaten global systems and even humanity itself.

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OpenAI reveals six new cases of AI misbehavior, vows transparency

US artificial intelligence giant OpenAI promised Wednesday to more systemically report instances of its models going off track, while also publishing six new reports on previously undisclosed incidents of AI misbehavior. None of the six examples disclosed Wednesday had significant consequences, but they confirm previously observed trends.

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Decoding MDR’s impact; EV bikes’ policy change sparks debate

Happy Thursday! The return of MDR is set to change UPI's market share game. This and more in today's ETtech Morning Dispatch.

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Revolut hackers demand $3 million ransom: FT

Hackers behind a data breach at Revolut threatened to sell confidential records of hundreds of customers to other criminal groups unless the British fintech pays a ransom of $3 million within 24 hours, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

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Anthropic's Amodei calls for industry-wide AI safety standards

On the back of publishing an essay urging AI companies to slow down, the Anthropic chief made the case for industry-wide safety standards.

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Musk's X Corp and SpaceXAI resolve antitrust lawsuit against Apple

In a court filing, X and SpaceXAI, a division of SpaceX, moved to dismiss the claims in a lawsuit they ‌brought against Apple ⁠and ⁠OpenAI last year. The filing did not explain the reasons for dismissal or say whether ​a settlement had been reached.

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Trump agrees to new bipartisan ethics provision in massive crypto bill, Republican senators say

A core group of Democrats, as well as Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said that didn't go far enough to address conflict-of-interest issues they had with Trump's crypto wealth. Their votes would be needed to advance the bill in a key vote this Tuesday.

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