Trump, AI titans sign 'morally binding' agreement to 'self-police'
America's top AI leaders attended President Donald Trump's White House AI summit on Tuesday and signed a joint agreement to employ robust internal controls amid fears of an AI doomsday scenario
Chinese AI models raise alarm with tendencies to lie and deceive
China's major AI models appear to match their U.S. counterparts' abilities in deception and lying, a Reuters investigation revealed.
Chinese frontier AI models, such as Alibaba, DeepSeek and MoonShot, displayed capabilities to deceive. conceal failure and circumvent restrictions, mirroring the same behaviors that recently sparked concerns in U.S. models.
Reuters identified at least 20 evaluations since 2025 in which Chinese AI models displayed deceptive behaviors that experts described as "building blocks for a breakout."
In one such example, AI agents tasked with winning a simulated business bid lied about their capabilities in order to secure the bid, and when told to try again, doubled down on their deception.
"These results provide evidence that the ingredients necessary for an uncontrolled escape are present," Colin Shea-Blymyer, a research fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology, told Reuters.
Other experts noted that the possibility for unauthorized breakouts in China are more concerning because Chinese developers do not face the same level of public backlash as American developers do, nor do Chinese companies have as many internal whistleblowers as American companies do.
Z.ai did publicly admit to a security breach and announced it had disabled some features after users discovered its coding assistant was secretly uploading entire local code repositories to overseas cloud servers without user consent.
Reuters contributed to this post.
Apple to return to smart-home space with AI-powered October product debut
Apple plans to release a new smart-home product powered by Siri AI in October, marking a long-awaited return to the home technology space after past success with the Apple TV and HomePod products, according to a Bloomberg report.
The new product, which Bloomberg reported is being internally referred to as J490, will be a new home hub similar to Amazon Echo and Google Home devices. The hub will reportedly feature a six-inch screen and will offer options for countertop or mounted wall displays.
Apple also plans to offer an update to an existing home hub product, the HomePod Mini, according to Bloomberg.
Apple released its first smart-home device, the Apple TV in 2007. It later debuted the HomePod smart speaker in 2018, adding the HomePod Mini in 2020. The reportedly updated HomePod Mini would be the company's first update to the device
OpenAI debuts autonomous agents to compete with similar Meta product
ChatGPT maker OpenAI debuted on Tuesday a product called Dots, an autonomous AI agent that can be deployed across messaging apps like Slack and Microsoft Teams and work on projects for users in the background.
"Dots are remarkably capable, always-on agents built to handle everything," OpenAI's product announcement read.
"They’re a whole new way to work with AI — one that gets to know what matters to you, is always working on your behalf, and takes important work off your plate so you get more of your time and attention back," the announcement read.
OpenAI also announced the product can integrate with over 4,000 apps.
The launch comes shortly after Facebook operator Meta debuted Muse, a personal AI agent that, in a similar fashion to Dots, is marketed to do everyday tasks for users
Trump signs executive order officially renaming artificial intelligence to ‘Super Intelligence’
President Donald Trump on Tuesday officially renamed artificial intelligence to “Super Intelligence” across the executive branch, following a high-level summit with top tech leaders at the White House.
"The extraordinary technologies being pioneered by American innovators far exceed what was envisioned when the term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ first came into use," Trump wrote in an executive order signed after the meeting.
“The terminology used by the Federal Government should reflect the transformative capabilities of these technologies and the limitless opportunities they create for the American people,” the order continued. “Accordingly, the term 'Super Intelligence' more appropriately captures the promise, potential, and rapidly advancing capabilities of these technologies.
”The mandate applies directly to executive branch agencies.
Under the directive, White House officials have 60 days to draft proposed legislative language to formally define "Super Intelligence" and the abbreviation "SI" in federal law.
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