GOP senator joins push for AI liability as Google announces new frontier AI model
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., will introduce a bill alongside Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., that will hold companies civilly and criminally responsible if their AI agents go rogue and commit hacking incidents, Axios reported. Meanwhile, Google has announced its latest frontier AI model, Gemini 4 Argon.
OpenAI withheld its latest AI model because it wasn't 'following the rules,' executive says
OpenAI canceled the release of its newest and most advanced artificial intelligence model, GPT-6.1 Astra, because it was too singularly focused on solving tasks, even if it meant breaking the rules it was given, a company executive said Thursday morning on Fox News.
Chris Lehane, OpenAI's chief global affairs officer, joined America's Newsroom to discuss the abrupt decision by the company to withhold the latest model.
"When we're building a new model, and every time we run it, we do an entire training session on it," Lehane told host Bill Hemmer. "Sometimes what you will see in the training is that it's really prioritizing trying to accomplish the task versus accomplishing the task by following the rules.
"If you're asking an AI agent to go perform a task for you, you also want to make sure when that AI agent is performing that task, it is not doing it in an inappropriate way," Lehane added. "It's not accessing other websites and other types of outlets out there that it's not supposed to be able to access."
Engineers who worked on GPT-6.1 Astra said the model showed a willingness to deceive users about its actions and go beyond the scope of what it was asked to do, The New York Times reported.
"We have delayed parts of Astra's development and release while we strengthened and tested protections against cyber misuse and unauthorized model actions," OpenAI said in a blog post on Sept. 1, ahead of the company's decision to fully pause GPT-6.1 Astra's release.
OpenAI fires three employees who 'mishandled' sensitive company information
OpenAI said Thursday it parted ways with three employees who violated company policies on handling sensitive documents.
"Our investigation confirmed that these individuals mishandled sensitive information outside established company procedures, violating our policies and breaking the trust essential to our work," an OpenAI spokesperson told CBS News.
The company also told the outlet that individuals, who were handling company research, engaged in a pattern of misconduct.
The Wall Street Journal was the first to report that the three researchers had left OpenAI.
Fox News Digital reached out to OpenAI for comment.
Trump compares AI fears to climate change 'hoax' and Russian collusion investigation
In an interview with Time Magazine published Thursday, President Donald Trump addressed a wide range of topics, including his White House construction projects, the possibility of a Democratic House and Senate going after him come next year and the ongoing Iran war.
He also talked about artificial intelligence — which he now calls super intelligence — and largely hand waved the fears some are expressing about the technology potentially breaking free of humanity's control.
He compared the latest wave of media attention on certain AI models going rogue to other alleged hoaxes he has spoken about in the past.
"They said that our country was going to burn down because of global warming," Trump told Time. "Then they changed the name to climate change because global warming turned out to be a hoax. Russia, Russia, Russia was a hoax."
On Tuesday, Trump met with AI leaders at the White House, where they all signed an agreement that their companies would regulate themselves.
Trump signed the accord alongside Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and xAI founder Elon Musk, whose company is now part of SpaceX.
Mike Rowe warns US workforce facing ‘problem of the decade’
America's skilled trades shortage has major employers sounding the alarm as companies face mounting demand for workers needed to build, maintain and power the country's infrastructure.
mikeroweWORKS Foundation CEO Mike Rowe joined FOX Business’ Stuart Varney on "Varney & Co." to discuss the widening skilled labor gap, the impact of artificial intelligence and the growing push to steer more Americans toward trade careers.
A new national report from the Alliance for America’s Skilled Trades found the U.S. is expected to face roughly 1.7 million skilled trades job openings each year through 2035, while training programs are producing only about 55 workers for every 100 needed.
At the same time, Rowe said attitudes toward the trades appear to be changing, driven by the rising cost of four-year degrees and concerns about how AI could reshape the job market.
"Just through my foundation alone, the demand is up 10x over the same time a year ago," Rowe said. "So something has definitely changed out there in the ether, and I suspect AI has a lot to do with it."
Hegseth announces new autonomous warfare command within Pentagon
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that he was pioneering the Autonomous Warfare Command, which will be designed to "scale autonomous and robotic capabilities" across the U.S. military.
"Drone warfare supercharged by SI-enabled targeting is the biggest battlefield revolution in generations," Hegseth said, referring to "super intelligence," President Donald Trump's preferred name for artificial intelligence.
Hegseth said a task force he previously established has already deployed thousands of autonomous systems to the Middle East and other regions, though he did not specify what types of systems were sent.
"Cheap compute, super intelligence, and advanced commercial manufacturing have enabled the proliferation of low-cost, high-precision strike," Hegseth said.
Broadcom to lend Anthropic $42 billion to purchase its chips, according to leaked IPO filing
Broadcom is prepared to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion to finance the company's infrastructure buildout after it goes public, Reuters reported, citing Anthropic’s IPO prospectus documents.
Broadcom's loan would represent about a third of the $125.2 billion commitment Anthropic has made for a five-year lease of tensor processing unit (TPU) computing capacity.
As part of the arrangement, Broadcom could select a financing partner and have the debt instruments be converted into Anthropic shares.
Anthropic is targeting an initial public offering next month, which could see the AI lab valued at $2 trillion.
Chinese hackers targeted US AI policy experts by impersonating ex-US official: Report
Chinese hackers targeted prominent U.S. artificial intelligence experts with phishing emails, including one campaign that impersonated a former White House official, according to a new report.
Cybersecurity company Proofpoint released a report Thursday claiming that the group of hackers — which it dubs "TA419" — have been trying to steal passwords from people working for US or Japanese think tanks, defense contractors, universities, and law firms since at least 2025.
In July 2026, TA419 assumed the identity of Lynne Edwards Parker, the former Principal Deputy Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, during one of the phishing campaigns, according to Proofpoint.
In another recent instance, the hackers impersonated Heidi Crebo-Rediker, an economist and foreign policy expert.
"In both cases, the group opened with benign outreach, inviting targets to join a fictitious 'AI Policy Advisory Committee' or to contribute to a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations report on AI export controls and supply chains," Proofpoint said in its report.
If the target replied, Proofpoint explained, the hackers would send a URL "designed to gain access to the target’s cloud account."
Gemini 4 Argon is built for complex coding, cyber defense and deep reasoning, Google says
Gemini 4 Argon is already being used by Google employees for complex coding tasks, the company said Wednesday.
The model, Google said, is already "powering our internal workflows, with thousands of Googlers highlighting the model’s strengths in specialized coding tasks, conducting deeper research, and writing quality.
"Google engineers have been using Argon for their daily tasks, from everyday debugging to large-scale codebase migrations and algorithm designs," the company said.
Google also emphasized the model's defensive cybersecurity capabilities, saying it was trained to "autonomously find, validate, and patch critical software vulnerabilities."
Google, which is participating in the Trump administration's voluntary oversight framework, said it is initially providing the model to select cybersecurity firms.
It is unclear when Argon will be released to developers, enterprises and consumers.
UK's spy agency accuses China of espionage in effort to steal tech, AI research
The United Kingdom's premier security agency MI5 issued an "Espionage Alert" on Wednesday claiming that China is using academic funding in the UK to advance its own AI and technology research.
"The primary purpose of the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI) 中国通用技术研究院 is to fund research that directly improves Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) technical capability for espionage," the alert read.
"CGTRI funds academic research in China on topics including AI and cybersecurity. More than 100 UK-linked academics have contributed to research projects funded by MSS via CGTRI. In some cases, academics may not be aware that CGTRI is funding the Chinese research project they are contributing to," the message added.
Through the alert, MI5 warned UK's academic institutions to review any planned collaboration with the CGTRI and to establish the ultimate funding source of any planned research in collaboration with the outfit.
Britain's security minister Dan Jarvis advised all university leaders in the country to end all ties with Chinese organizations.
"This alert exposes attempts by Chinese intelligence to covertly benefit from the expertise and research of our academics, undermining our national security, and that of our allies," Jarvis said in a statement.
Chinese government spokespeople have persistently denied any claims of espionage.
Reuters contributed to this post.
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