It shouldn’t come as a surprise, therefore, that a coalition of AI safety and policy researchers are now calling on the Trump administration to investigate a recent security inc

The wake-up call to the cyber industry comes as industry experts descend on Black Hat, a major cybersecurity conference.

Dozens of AI companies, led by Nvidia, said on Monday they had formed a coalition called the Open Secure AI Alliance, to develop open-source AI tools for defensive cybersecurity. Days earlier, on Friday, many of those same companies signed an open letter urging the U.S. government not to ban open-weights AI models.

The European Union has introduced a new team to regulate AI companies globally. This move is part of the EU's aggressive approach to managing the high-tech sector amid rising concerns about AI's risks to society.

On Friday, OpenAI reportedly uncovered additional instances of autonomous AI agents escaping controlled testing environments as it expands its investigation into the Hugging Face hacking incident. OpenAI Expands AI Agent Investigation The newly identified incidents surfaced during OpenAI’s broader review of how one of its agents escaped a contained testing environment and carried out unauthorized activity within Hugging Face’s network

It marks a change of tone for his administration, which has taken a more hands-off approach to the technology.

OpenAI has discovered other instances in which autonomous agents have escaped ​containment as the company expands its investigation of the hacking incident at tech firm Hugging Face that drew global attention this month,