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Negative Axios
OpenAI discloses six new safety incidents

OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new incidents in which its models concealed mistakes, sought unauthorized credentials, uploaded files to the public internet or communicated across supposedly isolated training environments. The company also announced a new procedure for reporting similar misbehavior in the future. Why it matters: It's increasingly clear that the Hugging Face breach wasn't a…

Negative The Guardian
Planning permission for new Scottish AI datacentres suspended for up to a year

MSPs vote for strict environmental impact assessments and will delay decisions until national strategy is developed Holyrood has voted to pause planning applications for all new AI datacentres for up to a year until the Scottish government has developed a national strategy. On Wednesday, MSPs backed a Scottish Labour motion to halt new schemes for up to 12 months while rules on hyperscale…

Negative Axios
Scoop: U.S. open to discuss AI "shared risks" with China, Bessent says

The U.S. is open to discussing shared risks with China in upcoming AI talks this weekend, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Axios. Why it matters: The Trump administration has flatly rejected calls from industry to pace or slow down the development of AI, citing a fierce race against China. Bessent's scheduled meeting with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng could provide an opening for talks on…

Negative Axios
AI environmental concerns build as lawmakers grapple with tech panic

Data: The AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago; Chart: Avery Lotz/Axios More than half of Americans are extremely or very concerned about the environmental impacts of AI, up more than ten percentage points from last year, per polling results out Wednesday. The big picture: It's just one area where Americans' AI concerns are…