Recursive CEO Richard Socher declared in an X post on Wednesday that "There is NO realistic scenario where AI wipes out all of humanity," pushing back on extinction warnings from Anthropic CEO Dario A…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed banning children under 13 from accessing social media, online games and chatbots during her annual State of the European Union speech in Str…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in her annual speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday that she will invite the main frontier AI labs to discuss how to "sup…
South Korean Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Kyunghoon Bae said Wednesday that South Korea "cannot afford to slow down AI development now," writing on X that "there is a fundamen…
Capgemini CEO Aiman Ezzat said agility — running small AI tests and pilots before scaling — is the most important skill for business leaders navigating applied AI, warning that companies should not ge…
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an X post on Tuesday that competition and liability give AI labs enough incentive to act individually on safety, breaking with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's c…
The Trump administration has few effective options to slow China's rise as an AI superpower, according to Bloomberg, as it weighs export controls against Beijing's retaliatory leverage over rare earth…
OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said Tuesday at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco that he is "very confident in our company's ability — our industry's ability — to do this safely," …
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday that the Trump administration has been working on AI safety "nonstop" since April, and said the administration f…
Senator Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon appeared together Tuesday at a Washington event where both warned that AI poses potentially catastrophic risks and criticized AI billionaires for moving too qui…
Banking and tech executives at the Canada Fintech Forum in Montreal said financial institutions have yet to weave AI through a majority of their systems, citing security concerns and the cost of deplo…
Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez told the national investment summit in Toronto on Sept. 15, 2026 that a "small group of companies in Silicon Valley" should not be left in charge of ensuring AI safety, warning …
Bell Canada quadrupled the scope of its AI data centre in Sherwood, Sask., to 1.2 gigawatts from 300 megawatts at a cost of $52 billion versus $1.7 billion, making Regina the national headquarters for…
OpenAI is working with rivals Anthropic and Alphabet's Google DeepMind on AI safety, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing OpenAI global policy chief Chris Lehane. Lehane said OpenAI had been in …
President Trump told Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang that AI fears are a 'hoax,' a remark Yahoo Finance reported on September 15, 2026, as it examined whether midterm voters can be convinced of that position.…
Okta CEO Todd McKinnon warned against slowing the pace of advanced AI model development, telling Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi that "the threat actors are not pausing." McKinnon's comment…
New Chinese border control rules taking effect Tuesday allow authorities to bar citizens from leaving the country for six months to three years if they engage in criminal activity overseas that endang…
China is rapidly closing the AI technology gap with the United States, with Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence reporting that China appears to be erasing the U.S. lead thi…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI CEO Elon Musk called over the weekend for a pause in AI development, warning the technology could soon improve on its own and slip beyond huma…
Prime Minister Mark Carney is delivering remarks and holding a press conference on the second day of Canada's first-ever national investment summit in Toronto, where he has set a goal of attracting $1…