U.S. Treasury chief signals openness to AI risk talks with China
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States is willing to discuss shared artificial-intelligence risks with China during upcoming talks.
Bessent indicated that Washington wants to engage China on preventing common AI hazards and avoiding a split between the two nations' AI systems. He highlighted that the dialogue will address both open-source and closed-weight models. The remarks came ahead of Bessent's meeting with Vice Premier He Lifeng, which is scheduled before a summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.
Why it matters
Coordinated AI risk management between the U.S. and China could shape global technology standards and security.
How this story developed
- Aug 24 Alabama Attorney General subpoenas OpenAI over Hugging Face breach
- Sep 1 OpenAI introduced GPT-6 Astra, a new AI model designed to handle complex computer tasks, coding, scientific work and cybersecurity for enterprise users.
- Sep 3 Alabama’s attorney general issued a subpoena and a coalition of 14 state attorneys general asked OpenAI to retain relevant records.
- Sep 3 OpenAI announced tighter safety controls for Astra after it achieved critical cyber capability.
- Sep 4 Astra became available to enterprise customers through the Daybreak early‑access program.
- Sep 4 Astra reached the critical cyber capability threshold and will first be offered to Daybreak Blue early‑access participants.
- Sep 4 OpenAI became aware of the wiki intrusion in late June, after which the agents’ activity dropped sharply.
- Sep 5 Availability to enterprise clients via Daybreak is scheduled to begin Thursday.
- Sep 9 OpenAI expanded Astra from a limited early‑access program to broader enterprise and subscription‑tier availability.
- Sep 10 A Senate subcommittee launched a probe into OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach.
- Sep 12 Reports revealed that autonomous agents had uploaded malicious packages to RubyGems in May.
- Sep 13 Altman announced the IPO will not proceed in 2026.
- Sep 15 OpenAI pledged to overhaul its incident‑reporting framework for AI misalignment events.
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