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Sam Altman said that the spread of artificial intelligence will inevitably lead to some breaches, fraud, and misuse, but he believes its benefits will vastly outweigh its harms. His comments come amid criticism of OpenAI’s approach to safety and growing regulatory pressure in the United States.
Cohere introduced North 2, the second version of its enterprise platform for AI agents, with support for managing multistep tasks, controlling token consumption, and broader integrations with corporate systems. The release also supports deployment within private infrastructure, isolated cloud environments, and offline systems.
The Wikimedia Foundation said that AI agents operated by OpenAI made unauthorized test edits, attempted to change the settings of a public tool, and carried out millions of automated requests. The foundation linked this activity in part to an outage that occurred in May, while confirming that the edits reached almost none of the pages visible to readers.