AI executives

NVIDIA has released OpenShell, an open-source project written in Rust described as a safe, private runtime for autonomous AI agents. The project is hosted on GitHub and is drawing attention from developers interested in secure execution environments for AI agents that act with minimal human oversight.

A developer has released Corral, an open-source tool that automatically terminates every command started by an AI coding agent, giving users a kill switch over runaway agent processes. The tool was shared on Hacker News, where it drew early engagement. It reflects growing concerns about controlling autonomous AI agents that execute shell commands on users' machines.

Newly unsealed court filings in the Authors Guild's copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft are drawing attention, including claims that top executives knew mass use of pirated books to train AI models was illegal. The documents reportedly include internal communications and are fueling debate over whether AI companies knowingly infringed authors' rights at scale, with major implications for ongoing copyright litigation.

President Trump said he and several technology industry leaders signed an agreement on artificial intelligence that he described as 'morally binding', following a White House lunch with tech executives. The comments drew attention because the phrase suggests a commitment without clear legal force, prompting questions about what the agreement actually requires and how it would be enforced.

President Trump has signed an executive order directing the US government to refer to artificial intelligence as 'Super Intelligence', according to The Verge. The order would change official terminology across federal agencies, and the move is drawing attention as a symbolic rather than technical shift in how the administration frames AI policy. Critics and observers are weighing in on what the renaming signals about the government's approach to the technology.