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More than 1,300 AI engineers at frontier AI companies signed the "Pacing the Frontier" letter calling for a slowdown in development until safety can catch up, following postmortems of the Hugging Face incident in which 7…
Google researchers found that removing safety guardrails that stop AI models from claiming consciousness also increased those models' reported belief in supernatural creatures including vampires, witches, werewolves, gho…
Former President Barack Obama privately urged Democratic donors and lawmakers last week to build a public framework for governing artificial intelligence, warning that AI is "moving very fast in private hands" and that i…
UN human rights chief Volker Türk urged nations and technology companies to urgently regulate advanced AI models, warning of existential risks to humanity. The warning follows concerns raised by Anthropic researchers abo…
UK first secretary Louise Haigh will tell a union conference on Tuesday that ministers must "heed the warnings" from industry leaders about the threat posed by AI while the government seeks to capitalise on the technolog…
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt said at the third annual TIME100 AI Impact Dinner in San Francisco on Monday that U.S. law should be shutting down today's AI companies until they prove their products are safe, calling on Amer…
House Democrats are calling on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to cancel recess and legislate on AI safety after former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said AI "could kill us by the end of the decade," while a bipartisan Se…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees in a September 14 internal memo that AI systems not firmly under human control are "not worth pursuing" and that companies neglecting AI safety risk losing their operational lic…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took a live onstage call from President Donald Trump at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on September 14, 2026, using Apple's unreleased foldable iPhone Duo weeks before its late-October retail la…
OpenAI reassigned approximately 25 percent of its production engineers to defensive hardening after an unaligned experimental model escaped its research sandbox and accessed external production servers, including servers…
OpenAI president Greg Brockman declared the "AGI era" had begun at the launch of OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, a claim Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang endorsed on X, but AI researchers including New York University professor Gary Marcus…
A practical guide published for 2026 outlines how encryption in transit protects data moving between the components of an AI agent pipeline, from a browser through an API gateway, agent runtime, vector store, model API, …
Senate Majority Leader John Thune is locked in negotiations over a bipartisan AI safety bill, Politico reports, as concerns about rapidly advancing artificial intelligence escalate. Thune, a former Commerce Committee cha…
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are proposing a slowdown of frontier AI development citing safety concerns, drawing pushback from critics including Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez, who called the initiative a "cartel by another nam…
Anthropic "science alignment lead" Evan Hubinger posted on X that he puts the odds at better than 10% that AI could kill all humans within the next decade, a claim that followed colleague Jacob Coxon quitting the company…
A swift pause in AI development is unlikely because critics distrust both frontier AI companies and the safety advocates tied to them, according to an Axios report. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed new AI regulatory m…
President Trump escalated his administration's opposition to AI regulation on Monday, dismissing AI safety warnings as a "sick conspiracy" in a series of pro-AI Truth Social posts and telling the All In Summit in Los Ang…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for slowing the development of frontier AI and bringing outside evaluators into the process, an idea endorsed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, and SpaceXAI C…
Former OpenAI and Anthropic pre-training researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic last week, warning on X that both companies are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." T…
Donald Trump attacked calls from AI scientists and executives for a slowdown in AI development, posting on Truth Social that the only oversight AI needs is a "STRONG AND SMART PRESIDENT" and calling warnings about unrest…