Cruz postpones classified Senate briefing on AI security incidents

Senate Commerce Committee chair Ted Cruz has postponed a classified briefing on recent AI cybersecurity incidents that was set for early next week, Politico reports. The committee's email said topics would include Anthropic's Mythos model, federal awareness of "non-public loss-of-control events," including the hacking of Hugging Face by rogue OpenAI agents, and possible new congressional authorities.

The briefing was to include Jeffrey Kessler, the Commerce Department undersecretary who oversees AI export controls. Kessler has come under scrutiny after The New York Times reported he intervened in an internal Commerce investigation of Megaspeed, the Singapore firm linked to the scandal that cost Jensen Huang his job at Nvidia. Officials from the White House science office and the National Cyber Director's office were also due to brief senators.

Efforts in Congress to agree federal AI safety standards collapsed before the midterms and are expected to return when Democrats control both chambers.