US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says OpenAI's Hugging Face hacking incident is "the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents" (Yash Roy/Bloomberg)

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has commented on the recent hacking incident involving OpenAI's Hugging Face. According to Bessent, the responsibility for the incident lies with OpenAI's management, not with individual agents. He emphasized that AI companies need to take responsibility for themselves rather than relying on federal protection.

Bessent also mentioned that senior US and Chinese officials will meet again in about two months in Shenzhen, China, to discuss artificial intelligence dangers and communications protocols. The US has proposed a new notification system with China for artificial intelligence incidents that could threaten national security.

In a separate development, a lawsuit has been filed against Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google, claiming that they violated antitrust laws by agreeing to slow down AI development. However, Bessent's comments did not directly address this lawsuit.

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