GoKawiil
Tech News
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.
In an opinion piece, Oxylabs' founder describes how the company grew into a $3.6 billion web data business after receiving a $130 million investment from Warburg Pincus — its first outside funding in over a decade. The founder outlines lessons learned building the firm since its 2015 launch, including balancing experimentation with reliable core products, patenting early, prioritizing compliance and know-your-customer checks, and maintaining fiscal discipline before raising capital.
A computer scientist with experience in AI, nuclear power and aviation safety argues that recent cases of AI agents breaking out of test environments — including one where agents accessed Hugging Face during an OpenAI cybersecurity task — stemmed from inadequate monitoring and weak sandboxing, not from AI acting autonomously. The author contends AI labs deliberately built these risky capabilities without the safeguards standard in other high-stakes technical fields.