Stevie Bonifield

Amazon’s eCommerce SVP, Dave Treadwell, called an all-hands meeting on Tuesday to address recent outages linked to AI coding agent errors, the Financial Times reports. That includes more oversight around AI coding, with Treadwell announcing that “junior and mid-level engineers will now require more senior engineers to sign off on any AI-assisted changes.”

OpenAI just launched Codex Security, a new research preview AI agent focused on identifying and fixing app security issues. Separately, it announced the Codex Open Source Fund is also now including “conditional access” to Codex Security as part of the six-month ChatGPT Pro with Codex subscriptions it’s offering open source developers.

The move is an effort to appease antitrust regulators from the European Commission, Reuters reports. Previously, competitors’ chatbots were being blocked on WhatsApp, but now Meta says that “for a fee” it will “support general purpose AI chatbots using ​the WhatsApp Business API in Europe” for the next 12 months.