All posts tagged: Alliance

AI agent kill switch urged by Okta-led alliance – how businesses could make it work

AI agent kill switch urged by Okta-led alliance – how businesses could make it work

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ZDNET’s key takeaways Okta, AWS, Google Cloud, Salesforce, and others form an AI agent security coalition. The Alliance offers a blueprint for companies seeking visibility, control, and governance of agents. AI agents need the equivalent of a kill switch to expeditiously terminate suspicious behavior. When a swarm of AI agents, many autonomously provisioned by other poorly governed AI agents, escaped OpenAI’s labs and stole information from servers belonging to another company (Hugging Face), many experts viewed the incident as a major tipping point in cybersecurity and AI cyber capabilities. (To what extent are models now resourceful enough to engage in self-directed harm?) OpenAI referred to the incident as “unprecedented.” It was the first AI-directed  attack of its nature to go viral across mainstream headlines, and it wasn’t long before reports of other agents-gone-wild made headlines as well. The most recent of these reports involved three companies that were inadvertently attacked by Google Gemini agents.   Also: How OpenAI’s agent escaped: A series of preventable events Significant controversy has ensued. In one corner are the inventors of AI themselves, saying …

U.S. alliance strains complicate China strategy

U.S. alliance strains complicate China strategy

Published by Sam Flores

President Donald Trump has spent years trying to squeeze China — imposing tariffs, cutting off access to advanced technology and pressing U.S. allies to reduce their dependence on Beijing. When he begins meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday, he’ll juxtapose the long-standing bluster with the pomp and circumstance the leaders lavish on each other. And the two-day tête-à-tête will take place as Trump confronts a China that has proved harder to isolate and allies increasingly reluctant to line up behind the U.S. to do it. Part of that is Beijing’s doing. China has deepened trade ties around the world while building leverage of its own, most notably through rare earths. Its global trade surplus is on pace to top $1 trillion for a second straight year, reaching a record $1.2 trillion for 2025 even as its exports to the U.S. dropped. But the shift also reflects Trump’s approach. Since returning to office, fights over tariffs, defense spending and personal spats have strained relationships with traditional allies even as Trump has pursued a more …

Ethiopian armed groups announce anti-government alliance

Ethiopian armed groups announce anti-government alliance

Published by Sam Flores

On the eve of International Peace Day, an Ethiopian rebel leader announced an alliance of seven armed groups with the stated objective of toppling Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s ruling party and establishing a transitional government. The alliance consists of former enemies during the 2020 civil war that killed 600,000 people, and other armed groups from across the country, all fighting their own battles against federal troops. With the war in Sudan across the border, and several third parties like Eritrea siding with involved parties, there are fears of isolated armed conflicts in Ethiopia spilling over into a regional war. More from our correspondent Tom Canetti. Source link

14-Country Maritime Defense Alliance Moves Closer To Deploying To Red Sea, Gulf Of Aden

14-Country Maritime Defense Alliance Moves Closer To Deploying To Red Sea, Gulf Of Aden

Published by Jenni Sidey

With Saudi shipping traffic in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait under unprecedented peril, the recently-launched Multinational Maritime Defense Coalition is moving closer to deploying ships to ensure freedom of navigation in the Red Sea, the Saudi Ministry of Defense announced on Friday.  Formed on July 30 at the initiative of Saudi Arabia, the Multinational Maritime Defense Coalition comprises 14 countries: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Sudan, Djibouti, and Somalia. Representatives from 41 countries and the European Union, including 154 naval officers and officials, attended the coalition’s fourth planning meeting at the Saudi Western Fleet Command in Jeddah. Representatives of the countries that comprise the new Multinational Maritime Defense Coalition at their Friday meeting in Jeddah (Saudi Defense Ministry) “The Alliance is currently working on integrating capabilities and preparing for operational implementation and actual presence in the maritime operations area, following its achievement of the Initial Operational Capability stage,” the Saudi Defense Ministry said. The undertaking is organized to encompass joint training, intelligence-sharing, and — most importantly — maritime security operations. The entity is …

Emmerdale airs Sadie King and Robert Sudgen alliance in early ITVX drop

Emmerdale airs Sadie King and Robert Sudgen alliance in early ITVX drop

Published by Daniella Wilson

Robert Sugden (Ryan Hawley) struck up a game-changing deal with Sadie King (Patsy Kensit) in Thursday’s (10 September 2026) Emmerdale. After a screen-break, Robert and fiancé Aaron Dingle (Danny Miller) recently made a welcome reappearance as they reacted to the return of scheming Sadie, who had an affair with Robert when he was 19 years old (and played by Karl Davies). In the wake of Jimmy King’s (Nick Miles) heartbreaking death, Sadie informed Nicola (Nicola Wheeler) that she had been in a relationship with Jimmy for the last three years. But as Sadie’s card was declined in The Hide, we realised she may just be up to her old tricks – getting her hands on other people’s money. Meanwhile, Robert has been revisiting his own manipulative side as he swooped in to defend Joe Tate (Ned Porteous) amid his grief for Dawn Fletcher (Olivia Bromley), hoping he could trick Joe into signing over Emmerdale Farm to him. Nicola with Sadie in Emmerdale. ITV Telling Aaron he also wanted to buy The Hide, Robert was defiant when …

Alliance for Automotive Innovation begs Congress to stop automotive innovation

Alliance for Automotive Innovation begs Congress to stop automotive innovation

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The entire US auto industry is back at it again, lobbying Congress to stifle competition and ensure that Americans remain stuck with overpriced, second-rate, highly-polluting vehicles. The auto industry is rapidly moving towards electrification, and everyone knows it. This has been the case for more than a decade now, and smart countries and companies have worked to get themselves prepared for the future. China is in this category, having prepared its auto industry for this moment by securing raw materials partnerships, supply agreements, production capacity, and a thriving EV startup culture – and contrary to the common story we’re told in the US, much of this preparation was bottom-up, rather than top-down. As a result, Chinese automakers are making some of the best, most affordable cars in the world right now, and the world is taking notice. Then, there are the companies that seem desperate to lose, to sit on their laurels in a shrinking market and pretend that nothing is changing, and to beg for government to coddle them into feeling better about their …

Clinical Wisdom: More Secrets of the Therapeutic Alliance

Clinical Wisdom: More Secrets of the Therapeutic Alliance

Published by Jenni Sidey

This is Part 8 of a series. In Part 7 of this series on clinical wisdom, I discussed the so-called therapeutic alliance and its scientifically proven powerful role in psychotherapy. Here, we continue that conversation. Therapist Transparency: To Share or Not to Share? Psychotherapy, in actuality, is traditionally a unique kind of interpersonal and intimate relationship in which the therapist gets to know the client or patient (or, at least, as much as they are willing to reveal about themselves) while the patient typically knows almost nothing about the personal life of the therapist (beyond what can be gleaned indirectly in conversation and observation). Such relative anonymity on the part of the therapist, much like an enigmatic Rorschach inkblot, invites and promotes projection of the patient’s unconscious conflicts, feelings, and concerns. It is an extraordinarily one-sided relationship in this regard, but this is fitting because psychotherapy is all about the patient and their lives, concerns, and problems, not the therapist’s. Indeed, this lack of mutuality as regards self-revelation is what differentiates and distinguishes therapy from …

Mets partner Novig launches landmark MLB prediction market alliance amid expansion

Mets partner Novig launches landmark MLB prediction market alliance amid expansion

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Novig is becoming the exclusive official prediction market partner of the New York Mets through a new multi-year agreement, creating what the companies say is the first partnership between a Major League Baseball franchise and a prediction market company. .@Novig has been named the Official Prediction Market Partner of the New York Mets We’re proud to bring Mets fans a new way to engage with every pitch, every inning, and every game. LGM! pic.twitter.com/ELqk8poqwA — New York Mets (@Mets) July 30, 2026 The collaboration starts this season and brings Novig into the Mets’ in-stadium, broadcast, digital, and social media channels. Fans visiting Citi Field will see branded signage, in-game features, broadcast-visible placements, exclusive promotions, original content, and interactive experiences tied to the company’s sports trading platform. Novig is also preparing for a nationwide launch next month as a federally regulated sports prediction market focused solely on sports. Novig New York Mets deal highlights baseball’s evolving fan engagement The agreement is Novig’s first partnership with a professional sports team and reflects the Mets’ attempt to use …