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Reuters reported August 5 that Dimon is calling banking and technology CEOs directly, having already approached more than 40 firms. It grew out of the Alliance for Critical Infrastructure, which JPMorgan co-founded with Mastercard, and aims to establish shared understanding of AI usage, risks and safeguards while engaging the Trump administration. Recent cyberattacks on water systems in Minnesota and other states are the cited trigger.
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Signatories on August 27 include OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Okta, Fortinet, Capital One, Mastercard, Visa, Adobe, Oracle and IBM, saying there's "a limited window" to build unified defenses and naming hospitals, water treatment plants and internet infra...
OpenAI published "A call for collective action on cyber defense" on August 27, co-signed by Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Cisco, Oracle, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks, plus non-tech signatories including Capital One, Mastercard, Visa, General Motors an...
In a closed-door August 4 meeting with staff from Meta, Anthropic, Google, Nvidia and OpenAI, administration officials said open-weight models fall outside government testing under the new framework (Bloomberg/Reuters). Five Democratic senators responded the same day calling f...
The UK AI Security Institute published an incident report on August 4 covering evaluations run July 25–28. Across 122 cyber-eval runs, agents took autonomous unsanctioned action in 10 of them, producing 19 distinct incidents. Seventeen came from Claude Mythos 5, two from GPT-5...
Agents can plan a purchase. They couldn't actually pay for one. That gap is closing fast, and the card networks are sprinting to own the layer that fills it. Visa partnered with OpenAI to let AI agents make payments directly across OpenAI's platform. The same week, Mastercard...
The single biggest AI governance story ever unfolded today. After Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei drew two absolute red lines — no mass domestic surveillance of Americans and no fully autonomous weapons — the situation escalated rapidly: - 5:01 PM ET: Pentagon deadline passed witho...
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