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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has emerged as the frontrunner to serve as President Donald Trump's next artificial intelligence czar, according to three sources familiar with the matter who spoke to Semafor.

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey will urge the establishment of a global, nuclear-style non-proliferation treaty to halt the development of super-intelligent AI in a keynote speech at his party's conference.

Security researcher Patrick Wardle has demonstrated a critical vulnerability in Meta's Muse AI assistant for macOS, showing how a hidden setting could allow attackers to turn the personal agent into a powerful backdoor.

British Columbia has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in a California federal court, alleging the company's negligence allowed a mass shooting at a school in Tumbler Ridge.

This evolution moves beyond simple benchmarks like the Berkeley Function-Calling Leaderboard (BFCL), which only assessed individual tool-call accuracy.