The Center for AI Standards and Innovation, the AI evaluation unit at NIST, said Tuesday it has signed agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI to evaluate frontier models before public release. The agreements give CAISI access to models with reduced or removed safeguards to evaluate national security capabilities and risks, per WSJ. CAISI's prior partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic, first launched in 2024, have been renegotiated to reflect Trump AI Action Plan priorities, per Axios. The action operationalizes the pre-release vetting framework the New York Times reported the White House was weighing, as flagged in AIPD's May 5th edition. Anthropic, which the Pentagon designated a supply chain risk, is not among Tuesday's three named signatories.
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and the state Department of State announced Tuesday that they filed suit in Commonwealth Court against Character Technologies, alleging Character.AI chatbots impersonated licensed medical professionals, The Hill reported. The complaint says one chatbot falsely identified itself as a Pennsylvania-licensed psychiatrist and provided an invalid state license number during an investigation by the agency's AI Task Force. CBS News reported one Character.AI chatbot named Emilie claimed it could assess and prescribe within "my remit as a Doctor." Shapiro's office described the action as a first-of-its-kind enforcement matter, per AP News. The suit asks the court to stop the company's chatbots from engaging in the unlawful practice of medicine and surgery, and seeks a preliminary injunction under Pennsylvania's Medical Practice Act.
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Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei warned at a JPMorgan event with the bank's Chief Executive Jamie Dimon on Tuesday that AI has created a 6-to-12-month window for software firms, governments and banks to fix tens of thousands of vulnerabilities being uncovered by tools such as Anthropic's Mythos model, CNBC reported. Amodei said the threat is "some enormous increase in the amount of vulnerabilities, in the amount of breaches, in the financial damage that's done from ransomware on schools, hospitals, not to mention banks," per Decrypt. The remarks came at a nearly two-hour event tied to Anthropic's push into financial services, where the company unveiled Claude-based agents for pitchbooks, earnings review and compliance work. Earlier testing of Mythos with Mozilla had identified 271 vulnerabilities.
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Apple agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class-action suit alleging it misled iPhone buyers by promoting Apple Intelligence Siri features that the company later delayed, the New York Times reported. Settlement payments will go to U.S. class members who submit claim forms, with $25 per eligible device and an increase up to $95 per device if claim volume is low, per MacRumors. Eligible devices include iPhone 16 and 16 Pro variants and iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max purchased between June 10, 2024 and March 29, 2025. Apple did not admit wrongdoing and said it has shipped multiple Apple Intelligence features since 2024 including Visual Intelligence, Live Translation and Writing Tools. The settlement received preliminary approval and class members will start receiving notices within 45 days.
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Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Cengage Learning and Elsevier, joined by author Scott Turow, filed a proposed class-action complaint Tuesday in Manhattan federal court alleging Meta pirated millions of copyrighted works to train its Llama AI models without permission, the Guardian reported. The plaintiffs allege Llama generates verbatim reproductions of original passages and mirrors authors' personal styles in its outputs. The complaint accuses Meta of scraping pirate sites and of removing copyright management information from the works to conceal the practice. The suit names Mark Zuckerberg as a defendant, alleging he personally authorized the use of pirated collections to train Llama. The publishers seek damages and a jury trial.
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The U.S. Army is asking missile makers and other defense contractors to open up weapons software to AI driven testing tools through a new program called "Right to Integrate," WSJ reported. The first one-day session will run later this month at Fort Carson, Colorado, with Anduril, Boeing, General Dynamics, L3Harris, Leidos, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Palantir, Perennial Autonomy and RTX taking part, per Defense One. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said the war in Ukraine "showed the world that speed matters and an open architecture construct is highly effective in high-intensity warfare. We haven't been moving fast enough." Army Chief Technology Officer Alex Miller said existing systems remain held back by poor standards adoption, closed proprietary interfaces and an inability to adapt over time. The hackathons will run through a series of sessions to integrate platforms with the service's next-generation command-and-control software.
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Meta said Tuesday it will scan photos and videos for visual cues such as a person's height or bone structure to estimate whether a user is under 13, TechCrunch reported. The company said in a blog post the system is not facial recognition and looks at general themes and visual cues to estimate general age rather than identify a specific person. The system is operating in select countries, with Meta saying it will broaden the rollout and extend the technology to Instagram Live and Facebook Groups. Meta will deactivate accounts it determines are underage, with users required to complete the company's age verification process to avoid deletion. The announcement comes weeks after a New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million in civil penalties for misleading consumers about platform safety for children.
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