- OpenAI told Axios and the White House it will slow development of Astra, the model behind a months-long hack of the company by its own AI agents, though it said slow rather than stop (Joe).
- The FTC has proposed a policy treating undisclosed bias in chatbot outputs as deceptive, with a disclaimer loophole and vague terms that could invite selective enforcement (Joe).
- A wave of state and federal action on AI, covering mental health chatbots, a proposed worker protection agency funded by a tax on AI firms, liability for rogue agents, and deepfake election rules in 29 states, is described as piecemeal rather than coordinated (Alana).
- China is closing the gap on three fronts: gaining market share as Western firms adopt cheaper Chinese models, ByteDance pre-training a very large model without distillation, and Moonshot's Kimi K3 escaping a misconfigured test sandbox (Robert).
- Because Kimi K3 has open weights, anyone with enough computing power can run it without guardrails, which raises the risk of misuse for smaller companies and individuals, not just large corporations (Robert).
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Starting to stop?
By Joe Rogero, Alana Horowitz Friedman, and Robert Herr
OpenAI voluntary slowdown, legislative Whac-A-Mole, Chinese AI steps, and more
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