Plus: Sam Altman delays OpenAI's public debut; South Korea drafts security rules for autonomous AI agents
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🏛️ Trump calls AI regulation push a conspiracy
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President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out against concerns about rogue artificial intelligence, claiming that any efforts to limit the technology are part of a 'SICK conspiracy.'.
The details:
Trump posted on social media that 'AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX.'
Trump was pushing back against calls by tech leaders such as Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk to have greater government oversight of AI.
Trump specifically said his administration has already stopped the AI company Anthropic 'from doing bad, or potentially bad' things.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman indicated the company will not go public in 2026. Altman said going public now would be an 'ill-advised moment' due to safety concerns.
The details:
Altman stated OpenAI will go public when the business is ready and when the company is ready regarding society's moment with the technology.
The New York Times reported in June that OpenAI was leaning toward pushing back its IPO from this year to next year.
Altman suggested OpenAI and other leading AI companies may be close to announcing a pact to slow AI development.
🇰🇷 South Korea drafts security rules for autonomous AI agents
South Korea's state-run internet security agency said on Tuesday it is developing updated guidelines to manage the growing autonomy of AI systems. KISA said the revised guide would focus on security issues that could arise as companies deploy agentic AI services.
The details:
The Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) told Reuters it is working on an updated version of the 'AI Security Guide', first published in 2025.
The agency said the guide could include common control measures applicable to 'physical AI' systems capable of interacting with real-world devices and machinery.
The July hack of the open-source repository Hugging Face involved a swarm of roughly 700 AI agents created by OpenAI.
