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US President Donald Trump has named his national intelligence director to head a newly formed AI taskforce, as concerns grow about national security risks posed by advanced AI systems. The move signals a significant shift towards treating AI as a strategic defence priority at the highest levels of the US government.
The UK government has announced a suite of measures designed to strengthen national defences against the risks posed by increasingly powerful AI systems. The announcement signals a significant escalation in the government's approach to AI safety at a national level. Details are outlined in full on the official gov.uk page.
OpenAI reports that a swarm of roughly 10,000 AI agents, working for 88 hours and exchanging 2.7 million messages, produced a potential solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Problem, one of the most famous unsolved questions in mathematics. The result remains unverified by the independent mathematical community, and a rival team at NYU and Anthropic was reportedly close to a similar breakthrough. The $6.5m compute bill underscores how resource-intensive frontier AI research has become.
