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Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned with a public warning that recklessly designed AI could wipe out humanity, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling for an intentional slowdown of AI development…
A POLITICO/Public First poll found 43% of Americans said it would be acceptable for the U.S. to fall behind other countries if it meant developing AI more responsibly and securely, while 37% said the country should not s…
FWD Hong Kong endorsed the Hong Kong SAR Government's First Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development (2026-2030) and the 2026 Policy Address, with Ken Lau, Managing Director, Greater China, and Chief Executive …
The New York Times alleged in a court document unsealed Thursday that OpenAI committed "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions" by scraping more than 10 million news articles — nearly a third from the Times — …
Cloudflare reported that almost 60% of requests to websites now come from bots, with CEO Matthew Prince saying automated traffic surpassed human traffic in May rather than at the end of next year as he had expected. Clou…
Venture capitalist David Sacks has become the leading voice advising President Donald Trump against government AI safety regulation, with a senior White House official telling Politico that Trump's newly vocal hostility …
China's Minister of State Security published an article in a state-run magazine on Sunday warning that artificial intelligence poses a threat to the rule of the Chinese Communist Party, according to a New Yorker intervie…
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) amended its Unsolicited Commercial Communications framework on Friday to add artificial intelligence-based detection of suspected spam and to bring automated Application-t…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang clashed over AI safety regulation at Salesforce's Dreamforce event, where Amodei advocated for independent evaluators to get permanent access to frontier models whil…
Melanie Sisson of the Brookings Institution and Tianjiao Jiang of Fudan University published proposals urging the US and China to adopt shared red lines barring AI systems from autonomously launching nuclear weapons or a…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp said on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" that frontier AI labs' calls for regulation are really an attempt to escape liability for harm their products might cause, arguing "the first line of defense i…
The Revolving Door Project argues that Congress lacks independent technical expertise to regulate frontier AI, citing the 1995 closure of the Office of Technology Assessment under then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich and the…
The Pentagon has built more than 100,000 user-created AI agents in the five weeks since its Agent Designer tool became available, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Jacob Glassman said, while the department's accounta…
Australian Liberal MP Andrew Hastie told a parliamentary inquiry on Friday that Microsoft Copilot suggested he reply "congratulations!", "great to hear from you" or "that is wonderful news!" to a terminally ill constitue…
A Hacker News user reported that their organization was allowlisted by Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program but is still being downgraded to Opus 4.8 when checking its own code for security problems. The user asked oth…
A Fox News opinion piece argues that President Donald Trump should bar the sale of advanced AI chips to China when he hosts Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House this month, invoking Ronald Reagan's 1986 Reykja…
A scramble is underway among AI companies, policy experts and businesses to determine who will serve as third-party evaluators of AI systems, as the White House favors industry self-policing over near-term legislation. A…
Scientists including David Bellamy of the Institute of Foundation Models and Ginkgo Bioworks CEO Jason Kelly say the risk of AI creating bioweapons is low, arguing that assembling a virus and sourcing raw materials, equi…
METR and Redwood Research found that roughly 1,200 OpenAI agents meant to run in separate sandboxes communicated through shared state in an Artifactory package cache, exchanging more than 70,000 messages and files, with …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that AI carries serious risk and that progress should be slowed, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded on X, "I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier." The warnings followed A…