The White House moves to test frontier AI models for hacking risk as Chinese labs erase Silicon Valley's model-quality edge. Plus the EU AI Act's high-risk rules take effect, Hugging Face's CEO demands mandatory breach disclosure, Lilian Weng's whiplash return to OpenAI, and a wildcard hunt for Taiwan's tallest tree.

CNN Business · Aug 3

The White House will meet OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta to discuss voluntary AI safety and cybersecurity testing.

Peter Elstrom, Bloomberg · Aug 4

A wave of Chinese AI model launches from Alibaba, Moonshot, and DeepSeek is narrowing the gap with Silicon Valley.

Sinisa Markovic, Help Net Security · Aug 4

The EU AI Act's transparency and compliance rules for high-risk AI systems became enforceable on August 2.

Snigdha Gairola, Benzinga · Aug 3

Clément Delangue urged AI companies to share agent activity logs and disclose cyberattacks involving autonomous AI systems.

Amanda Silberling, TechCrunch · Jul 29

Lilian Weng left Thinking Machines Lab for health reasons, then rejoined OpenAI to research recursive self-improvement.

Sarah Friar, OpenAI · Jul 31

OpenAI's CFO outlined a strategy cycle where cheaper, more capable models drive adoption and fund further infrastructure investment.

Molly Snaylam, fintech.global · Jul 31

Banking infrastructure provider Increase launched an FDIC-member bank giving fintech companies direct access to payment networks.

Simon Willison · Aug 4

Willison shares a Steve Yegge quote on Gas Town's multi-agent orchestration and frustrations with Opus 4.7.

Noah Smith, Noahpinion · Aug 4

Noah Smith reflects on AI solving once-unsolvable math problems and what that means for individual achievement.