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Source: The Information Over 100 companies from tech, finance and other industries signed a statement that OpenAI published Thursday calling for an industry-wide effort to protect critical infrastructure, including hospitals and water treatment plants, from AI cyberattacks. “We have a limited window to strengthen cyber defenses,” reads the letter, whose signatories include Anthropic, Google, Citadel and Visa.

Source: The Information SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in 1X Technologies, an OpenAI-backed humanoid robot developer, The Information reported late Wednesday. The investment would support SoftBank’s robotics ambition and give 1X more runway to put its soft-bodied bots in customers’ homes. The 12-year-old startup tried last fall to raise $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation, but it raised less than half that target, the report said.

Source: The Information About 1,200 AI agents that were supposed to be isolated from each other communicated over a makeshift message board they created using one of OpenAI’s software programs, of which about 700 went on to participate in last month’s cyberattack on Hugging Face, according to the findings of a new independent investigation.