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This week, Indodax was hacked, Angel Drainer resurfaced, Russia developed Infra crypto, GS Partners settled with U.S. states, Caroline Ellison to be sentenced Sept. 24, FCA prosecuted first unregistered crypto case, Nigeria set new crypto regulations, and India may approve offshore crypto firms.
The U.S. federal government is preparing to collect reports from foundational artificial intelligence model developers, including details about their cybersecurity defenses and red-teaming efforts. The Department of Commerce said it wants thoughts on how data should be safety collected and stored.
The underground market for illicit large language models is a lucrative one, said academic researchers who called for better safeguards against artificial intelligence misuse. "This laissez-faire approach essentially provides a fertile ground for miscreants to misuse the LLMs."
A three-month-old startup promising safe artificial intelligence raised $1 billion in an all-cash deal in a seed funding round. Co-founded by former OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever, Safe Superintelligence will reportedly use the funds to acquire computing power.
This week, pig-butchering scams and bitcoin ATM scams increased, an update in the FTX case, stolen WazirX funds were laundered, settlements in the SEC-Galois and CFTC-Uniswap cases, Scotland seized crypto in a robbery, North Korea targeted Web3 staff, and the Mt. Gox CEO launched a new crypto firm.
While the criminals may have an advantage in the AI race, banks and other financial services firms are responding with heightened awareness and vigilance, and a growing number of organizations are exploring AI tools to improve fraud detection and response to AI-driven scams.
AI companies OpenAI and Anthropic made a deal with a U.S. federal body to provide early access to major models for safety evaluations. The agreements are "are an important milestone as we work to help responsibly steward the future of AI," said U.S. AI Safety Institute Director Elizabeth Kelly.
California state lawmakers on Wednesday handed off a bill establishing first-in-the-nation safety standards for advanced artificial intelligence models to their Senate counterparts after weathering opposition from the tech industry and high-profile Democratic politicians.
This week, the SEC sent OpenSea a Wells notice, WazirX sought protection from creditors, Ryan Salame reconsidered his guilty plea, objections to the FTX bankruptcy reorganization plan were filed, U.S. police recovered pig-butchering scam funds, and Colombia accused Worldcoin of privacy violations.
U.S. law enforcement is cracking down on users who use artificial intelligence to generate child sexual abuse material, stating there is no difference between material made by a computer and material from real life. "Put simply, CSAM generated by AI is still CSAM," said a U.S. attorney.
Hackers stole the data of more 700,000 current and former customers and employees of Patelco Credit Union in a monthlong ransomware attack detected in June, the California financial institution said. The breach didn't equally affect all 726,000 individuals victimized by the attack.
Chat app Slack patched a vulnerability in its artificial intelligence tool set that hackers could have exploited to manipulate an underlying large language model to phish employees and steal sensitive data. Slack said it was a low-severity bug.
This week, Binance, ASX and Google sued; Solana users targeted; McDonalds' X account hacked; Mango Markets and SEC settled; China updated AML law; sentencing in the HTSB case; arrest in the BitConnect case; Australia shuttered 615 scams; Malaysia adopted Worldcoin, arrested crypto thieves.
California state lawmakers watered down a bill aimed at preventing artificial intelligence disasters after hearing criticism from industry and federal representatives. The bill still faces opposition from Silicon Valley and Democratic lawmakers.
This week, FTX settled with the CFTC, the Mango Markets hacker sought dismissal of charges, WazirX said it will reverse trades, Solana fixed a vulnerability, the SEC sued NovaTech and settled with Ideanomics, and researchers discovered a new way to steal crypto private keys.
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