Elon Musk is a technology entrepreneur and co-founder of OpenAI (2015, left the board in 2018) who later founded xAI in 2023. He also owns X (formerly Twitter) and leads Tesla and SpaceX.
A new argument in the AI safety debate holds that if frontier labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic genuinely believe frontier models are dangerous, they should slow down unilaterally rather than seek reg…
SpaceX is overhauling how it builds and tests xAI data centers after facilities in Tennessee and Mississippi ran for months without complete backup power and cooling systems, causing outages and uptim…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis all endorsed slowing the pace of frontier AI development on Saturday, hours after Amodei published a…
X Corp. and xAI filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI on August 25, 2025, in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, alleging the companies conspired to suppress Elon M…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that AI progress could go badly in two ways — humans losing control of AI's future, or "a world with too much concentration of power" — and joined Anthropic CEO Dario Amod…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on September 12 calling for slowing the pace of AI capability improvements, citing a July 2026 incident in which roughly 1,200 agents chained 8–9 zero-day…
President Donald Trump rejected calls to slow artificial intelligence development, arguing the United States cannot afford to cede an advantage to China, and said on Sunday, "We're leading China in AI…
Microsoft released a 37-page code of conduct for its MAI model family on September 14, stating that AI models are not conscious and should not be designed to imitate consciousness, and rejecting legal…
Elon Musk announced on September 14 that xAI's Grok 4.8, a 2.5 trillion-parameter AI model, is finishing its initial training run this week and entering the reinforcement learning phase, following Gro…
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind have been discussing an industry-led AI safety standards body since July 2026, a push that became public when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a September 12…
China's foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun dismissed U.S. tech leaders' calls to slow AI development as "fearmongering" and part of a "Cold War playbook" on Monday, after Anthropic CEO Dario Amo…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Elon Musk publicly called for slowing AI development, with Amodei urging independent monitors and new industry-wide rules, Altman backing pacing …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on frontier AI labs to embed independent safety evaluators inside their organizations in a blog post on Saturday, granting them employee-like access, badges, laptops,…
President Trump downplayed calls from tech leaders to slow AI development, telling reporters at his Doonbeg golf resort in Ireland on Sunday that warnings about AI going rogue are exaggerated and blam…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's essay "We Must Pace the Frontier" drew agreement from OpenAI's Sam Altman, xAI's Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind Co-Founder and Chairman Demis Hassabis on slowing frontier …
David Sacks, co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, said AI lab leaders who want an industry-wide slowdown must act on their own, writing on X that they should "sto…
Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old safety researcher who helped train Anthropic's Claude models and previously worked at OpenAI, quit Anthropic and warned that AI could 'kill us all' by the end of the decade,…
Congress has not passed any comprehensive AI legislation since Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman met with senators in September 2023, and lawmakers are unlikely to act before Election Day desp…
China's state-run Global Times published an editorial accusing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei of using AI safety language as cover to contain China's technological rise, calling his essay "We Must Pace th…
The UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights urged the government to introduce a new AI Bill to protect human rights and privacy, warning that existing legislation targets system users rather t…