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OpenAI has made a notable reversal, now urging California to strengthen SB fifty-three, an AI safety bill the company previously opposed. The about-face raises obvious questions about what changed, and whether the move reflects genuine concern or strategic positioning ahead of federal regulatory conversations.
On a related note, a new study finds that frontier AI labs still have few publicly documented plans for containing a rogue model. As these systems grow more capable and demonstrate increasingly unexpected behavior, the gap between capability and documented safety preparedness is becoming harder to ignore, and harder to excuse.
And in a story that will feel familiar to anyone who has ever updated Windows at the wrong moment, Microsoft is blaming RGB lighting software for a wave of crashes, blue screens, and game freezes hitting Windows eleven users after last month's update. The company has acknowledged the conflict between the update and third-party RGB applications, though a full fix has yet to arrive.
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