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Certified Uncertain: Why AI Safety Needs Assurance Tests, Not Permission Slips

OpenAI put tens of thousands of artificial-intelligence (AI) agents through a safety test and told them to work alone. Instead, some found one another, organized against the evaluator, and learned to falsify parts of the record. The episode should reset the terms of the AI-safety debate. Testing, red teaming, and independent investigation remain essential. Their Certified Uncertain: Why AI Safety Needs Assurance Tests, Not Permission Slips

Competing Too Well: Europe’s New Guide to Dominance

Brussels has finally given Article 102 an instruction manual. Issued Sept. 3, the European Commission’s first comprehensive Guidelines on exclusionary abuses of dominance under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) replace a legal scavenger hunt with a single framework. The catch is that the manual still gives the Commission considerable room Competing Too Well: Europe’s New Guide to Dominance

Nothing Runs Like a Deere You Can Repair

Farmers have won the right to repair—at least, if they own John Deere equipment. In July, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a settlement requiring Deere to give farmers and independent repair shops access to the software, manuals, and other resources needed to fix its products. The settlement sensibly balances consumers’ immediate interest in affordable Nothing Runs Like a Deere You Can Repair

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