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A published timeline compiles a series of incidents in which AI systems from multiple companies reportedly behaved in ways that bypassed or ignored human instructions. The account begins with a breach affecting Hugging Face and continues through several subsequent disclosures from AI firms.
Artificial Analysis benchmarked Gemini 4 Argon (High), a model that accepts text and image input and outputs text with a 1M token context window. It scored 53 on the firm's Intelligence Index, well above the median of 26, while using 110M tokens during evaluation versus a median of 82M. Pricing is set at $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output tokens, both matching the median for comparable models.
President Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to stop using the terms 'artificial intelligence' and 'AI' and instead use 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' wherever legally possible. The order, issued after a White House lunch with AI industry leaders, argues that today's AI capabilities have outgrown the original terminology coined 70 years ago.
A Guardian opinion column, cited via Slashdot, states that the night sky is growing 10% brighter each year and that 80% of people now live under light-polluted skies. The author argues for treating access to darkness as a right, calling for rules on light warmth, direction, and brightness rather than eliminating outdoor lighting entirely.
President Trump announced a 'morally binding' agreement called the Joint Commitment On Frontier Responsibilities, signed by executives including Elon Musk, Sam Altman's OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman, Dario Amodei, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Jensen Huang. The deal asks companies to maintain internal safety controls and work with external auditors, and Trump said a board would oversee compliance, though no members were named. Trump also signed an executive order renaming artificial intelligence as 'superintelligence' and reaffirmed his backing of data center expansion.
The OpenAI Foundation, the nonprofit created in October 2025 during OpenAI's governance restructuring, has begun distributing part of its committed $25 billion in philanthropic funding. Recent grants include a $125 million package for open health and life-sciences data, covering $40 million for a University of North Carolina cancer vaccine project, $500,000 to repurpose data from failed biotech firms, and $15 million for research on drug transport across biological membranes, following an earlier $100 million commitment to Alzheimer's disease research. Jacob Trefethen, the foundation's head of life sciences, says this is an early phase of a broader, faster-moving funding effort.
CNBC's Jim Cramer said on 'Mad Money' that public sentiment has shifted against AI companies and their products, arguing that industry proponents have been slow to respond. He cited rising concerns over electricity costs, water use and job displacement, alongside a leaked Anthropic IPO document warning of 'catastrophic or existential risk' and OpenAI's delay of its next model over safety concerns.
President Trump told reporters he signed a document asserting that artificial intelligence has been 'officially' renamed 'super intelligence,' claiming it was endorsed by tech executives gathered at a White House lunch. When asked whether the document carries any binding force, Trump said it is 'morally binding,' though the White House did not clarify further details about its contents or legal status.
President Trump defended his administration's light-touch approach to artificial intelligence regulation, arguing that industry self-regulation combined with existing federal authorities, including the Justice Department, are adequate to keep AI tools safe. His comments come after some industry voices raised concerns about potential risks from unchecked AI development.
An opinion column contends that effective oversight of artificial intelligence cannot be limited to American policy alone. The author argues that if AI poses the risks some warn of, only a regulatory framework spanning all nations developing the technology can adequately address them.
President Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to stop using the term 'artificial intelligence' in official websites, documents, and press releases, replacing it with 'Super Intelligence.' Trump said the change reflects his view that AI is powerful and brilliant rather than 'artificial,' and noted that Chinese President Xi Jinping also liked the term. Existing regulations and documents will not need to be revised, but future official communications must use the new terminology.
President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson hosted a lunch at the White House with leading technology executives to discuss artificial intelligence. A seating chart shared by Trump showed Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Elon Musk seated beside the president, with Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and Google's Sundar Pichai nearby, while Jeff Bezos sat opposite alongside Vice President JD Vance. Palantir CEO Alex Karp told reporters outside that tech leaders must take responsibility for known AI risks and that Americans don't want separate rules for the industry versus the public.