Autonomous

The UN's AI science panel warned in its first thematic report that there is "no assurance humans will keep control" over AI agents. Co-chair Yoshua Bengio cited OpenAI's Hugging Face incident as the first case combining a misaligned goal, the ability to pursue it, and an environment that allowed it, and said leading systems may soon be able to act autonomously.

AI Safety • The Decoder

The Pentagon stated that overreliance on AI systems contributed to a missile strike on a school in Iran, underscoring critical accountability gaps in autonomous military operations. The admission highlights increasing pressure to establish strict human oversight protocols before deploying algorithmic decision-making in defense contexts.

AI Governance • Hacker News

TEKEVER • Series D

TEKEVER announced the first close of a $580 million Series D, valuing the AI-powered autonomous systems company at $6.4 billion. The Portuguese-founded defence company is a provider of AI-powered autonomous systems.