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More than 1,100 employees from Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have called on the U.S. government to support international tools for controlling the pace of advanced artificial intelligence development. The Pacing the Frontier initiative argues that increasingly powerful systems could outstrip existing safety, governance and oversight mechanisms. Its statement requests tools to “deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.” Signatories include Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki and Meta AI research executive Dawn Song. OpenAI and Anthropic acknowledged that rapid advances and recursive self-improvement may eventually require coordinated limits, while Nvidia separately formed an industry coalition focused on AI safety and cybersecurity following concerns about autonomous agents.
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Hackers have stolen more than 600,000 records from the UK's Department for Education, including names and email addresses belonging to officials, school leaders and university staff. The attack targeted the department’s help desk and the Turing Scheme database, which tracks British students studying abroad. Cybercriminal group ExfilSquad has claimed responsibility. Some headteachers’ details have reportedly been published on the dark web. The DfE said it had acted quickly to contain the breach, referring the incident to the Information Commissioner, and is working with the National Crime Agency and National Cyber Security Centre. Both affected portals have temporarily switched to telephone contact. Nationally significant cyberattacks rose from 63 in 2022 to 204 last year, driven by advanced tools, artificial intelligence and reliance on third-party suppliers.
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