Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday the U.S. has proposed a new “notification mechanism” for artificial intelligence incidents that could affect national security, part of weekend discussions ahead of talks at the White House this week between President Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping. “We want a shared vision of common goals and common threats,” Bessent told reporters after talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York. “We think that just like any cross-border activity, that moving from opaque to more transparency between the No. 1 and the No. 2 AI powers in the world is very important.” Trump has resisted calls to slow down AI development, saying that would help China catch up to U.S. companies. Standing together in the soaring lobby of the JPMorgan Chase headquarters late Sunday, Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the groundwork had been laid for talks between Xi and Trump set to take place on Thursday. They said the two sides had agreed to operationalize a new “Board of Trade” that the two leaders had discussed when they met in Beijing in May. “Today those notions have become reality,” Greer said. Greer said the countries were still discussing what “nonsensitive” items could be considered for lower tariffs, but that the list could potentially include consumer and agricultural goods, energy products and medical devices. Chinese state media Xinhua said Bessent and the vice premier talked about issues “relating to AI” without mentioning specifics and also had “candid, in-depth and constructive” discussions on key economic and trade issues. “The fact that both sides agreed to continue the dialogue is significant,” said George Chen, a partner and chair of digital practice at The Asia Group consultancy, in written comments. “The initial outcome — an AI risk notification mechanism — sets a precedent that other countries may follow.” Related:What the Hugging Face Incident Teaches Security Leaders About AI Agent Access Related:Industry Reactions to OpenAI Models Hacking Hugging Face Related:OpenAI Agents Coordinated via Makeshift Message Board Ahead of Hugging Face Hack Microsoft Commits to Sweeping AI Privacy Rules for Students. Will Other Tech Giants Follow? Beijing Hits Back at Anthropic CEO’s Call to Curb China’s AI Development New Warnings About the Risks of AI to Humanity Revive a Long-Running Debate Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says AI Industry Needs to Give Safety Measures Time to Catch Up Users in Houthi-Held Yemen Tried to Develop Advanced Weapons With AI, Anthropic Says Anthropic Researcher Resigns With Warning About the Dangers of AI Development Meta Launches Personal AI Agent, Muse, Emphasizes Safety and Privacy Party’s Over for Crypto Scammers Who Went on a Spending Spree After a $240 Million Bitcoin Theft Google Hit With $463 Million Fine for EU Location Data Rule Breach Fake LastPass Installers Push Kernel-Level EDR Killer, ‘Rapuncel’ Stealer CISO Conversations: Noopur Davis – The Accidental Global CISO at Comcast Dragos Completes NetRise and runZero Acquisitions Following Accenture Deal RatHat Android Trojan Uses AI for Automation Rust Team Members and Popular Crate Owners Targeted via Video Calls CrowdSec Confirms Source Code Stolen in Supply Chain Attack Colorado Water Utilities Hit by Cyberattacks Targeting OT Systems Join as speakers examine the various components of ASM strategy, the push to mandate continuous asset visibility and inventory tools, and the use of red-teaming, bug bounties and pen-tests in modern security programs. Explore what it takes to operationalize continuous authorization at scale, including the technical, organizational, and cultural changes required. Veritas Capital has appointed Joel Fulton as Chief Information Security Officer. incident.io has appointed Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas as Chief Operating Officer. Ruben D. Chacon has joined ADM as Vice President and Global CISO. Point-in-time audits and sampled assessments offer only snapshots; continuous control monitoring provides evidence that security controls are working today.(Sravish Sridhar) Every leaked credential should be dead, or dying, within sixty seconds of being found. Here's a proposal to make that the default.(Matt Honea) Security teams must treat autonomous agents as highly privileged identities.(Etay Maor) For twenty-five years, "data" in security meant logs and events. But logs are a lossy representation of reality.(Danelle Au) Organizations must distinguish identity verification, authentication and threat detection, or risk successfully authenticating the attackers they are trying to stop.(Torsten George) FlipboardRedditWhatsappWhatsappEmail