A high school maintenance worker was arrested after trying to meet an AI persona he believed was a 15-year-old boy. The case shows police using generative AI as a decoy in child-protection investigations.
After weeks of incidents involving rogue agents, more officials are calling for AI regulation, even as President Trump says it is unnecessary, and several states are suing OpenAI. SiliconANGLE notes that the industry nevertheless keeps pushing ahead at full speed.
A new essay argues that neural networks may be far easier to read than assumed, with about 90 percent of neurons serving a clear function. If true, deception or dangerous behaviour could be spotted directly in a model's circuits, but researchers are still debating whether the thesis holds.
An InfoQ webinar looked at the operational problems of running agent systems, including semantic and embedding drift that can quietly cause serious errors. Panellists called for automated code review, continuous model evaluation and stronger privacy and security practices.
Charles Schwab's CEO told Bloomberg Television that the firm is blocking unauthorised AI agents, including Meta's Muse, from moving client funds; outside tools will only see balances through controlled MCP servers. Schwab wants clients to use its own assistant, Charley, and JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon has taken a similar stance.
MIT professor Sherry Turkle warns that people have become dangerously entangled with chatbots. She questions whether these systems should present themselves in the first person.