President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post Monday that artificial intelligence needs no guardrails beyond "a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT," and warned that "we already have tremendous…
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…
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…
Former President Barack Obama said at a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser Thursday that Democrats should make artificial intelligence a central 2028 campaign agenda, urging House …
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon told NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday that Congress should let leading frontier AI labs regulate themselves until lawmakers establish a long-term framework,…
Former Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon, in an interview with Meet the Press, called for "global coordination" to mitigate AI risks and said he expects AI's capability could become "quite scary" wi…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for AI companies to deliberately "slow the pace" at which they improve their models in a nearly 4,000-word essay published Saturday, arguing that AI advances are outp…
Two AI researchers who recently left Anthropic and Google DeepMind, Joe Benton and Josh Engels, publicly warned that advanced AI systems pose catastrophic safety risks, citing a recent cyberattack by …
Two more artificial intelligence researchers told NBC News' Tom Llamas they see a potential threat to humanity from AI, following a viral tweet by AI researcher Jacob Coxon stating he believed AI coul…
Two more AI researchers who recently left Anthropic and Google DeepMind are publicly warning that advanced AI systems may soon spiral out of human control, following Jacob Coxon's viral departure from…
Former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon told NBC News' Tom Llamas that there is a "substantial probability" AI could "kill us all" by the end of the next decade, discussing his viral tweet …
Apple CEO John Ternus announced the first foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo, at the company's annual event on Sept. 9, 2026, marking the biggest change to the iPhone since its 2007 debut. Apple said the…
The FBI, NSA, and CISA reported Tuesday that six leading Chinese AI developers—DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI—have systematically distilled American AI models including Ant…
Google's Threat Intelligence Group reported Tuesday that Chinese state-backed hackers are running open-source AI models on compromised third-party cloud networks to avoid detection, enabling entire in…
A new NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey, conducted Aug. 20 through Sept. 1, found that 69% of respondents oppose the construction of AI data centers in their local area, with 45% say…
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, its newest and most powerful model, to a limited set of customers on Thursday, calling it the world's most intelligent AI system and the first model to trigger its interna…
Humanoid robots from Tau Robotics are cleaning homes in San Francisco for $30 an hour, performing tasks such as mopping floors, tidying rooms, and cleaning kitchens. Tau Robotics CEO and co-founder Al…
Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday he would not be 'shocked' if the Antichrist were walking among us and warned that some uses of artificial intelligence carry 'really, really weird spiritual dark e…
California's Democratic-controlled Legislature passed more than 20 bills to curtail AI and social media, including measures to ban addictive features for minors, require human instructors in the Calif…
The second World Humanoid Robot Games kicked off over the weekend in Beijing, where robots competed in athletic events to showcase advances in robotics and AI in China. NBC News correspondent Janis Ma…