OpenAI Declares Its 'Third Phase' as Lloyds Deploys Agentic AI Against Fraud
Sam Altman and OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published a blog post declaring the company is entering its "third phase," focused on making advanced AI abundant, affordable and safe, according to Business Insider. They outlined three main goals, building an automated AI researcher, accelerating the economy and giving everyone on Earth a personal AGI, while renewing calls for an international organization that could slow the development of frontier models if needed.
The UK government has unveiled an 11 billion pound AI supercomputing infrastructure plan, according to Webpronews.
Lloyds Banking Group deployed an agentic AI system for real-time fraud protection across its 28 million customers, per Fintech Finance, with multiple simultaneous AI agents performing identity checks, transaction analysis and scam risk assessment on the bank's proprietary Envoy platform, while human staff retain full accountability and the power to override AI suggestions.
Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute published its first survey of AI usage among tweens and teens, finding 86 percent of kids have used generative AI tools and 44 percent have not had a conversation with their parents about AI safety, according to Headtopics, with founder Jim Steyer calling the results "a pretty big wake-up call" and noting AI's takeover of childhood happened about twice as fast as social media's.
UNSW Sydney engineers unveiled the AusculPatch, a 3.2-gram wearable sensor described in Nature Communications that attaches to the chest and continuously captures heart, lung and blood flow vibrations, aiming to replace the clinic stethoscope with at-home monitoring.
A $1.5 million gift from the Chase-Bear-Dyer family will expand UConn Health's emergency department and endow technology at the UConn School of Law, including support for artificial intelligence software and resources, according to Patch.
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