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Suleyman: Uncontrolled AI could spawn 'silicon species'
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warned that without adequate safeguards, AI could spawn a 'silicon species' competing with humans for resources, while publicly criticizing Anthropic for training C
Syensqo Builds Materials Foundation for AI's Physical Limits
Mike Finelli of Syensqo argues that advanced materials are no longer just supporting AI but actively defining what AI infrastructure can achieve, as semiconductors and data centers hit physical limits
Sanders and Bannon Unite on AI Warning
Left-wing senator Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump's former adviser Steve Bannon, long-standing political rivals, jointly warned about AI dangers at the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington on September 16
A brief history of AI executives calling for regulation
AI executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and X publicly called for slowing AI development this week — a pattern stretching back over a decade, from Musk's 2017 governors' plea
Essay Maps Loss-of-Control Rift at OpenAI, Anthropic
A 13,000+ word essay offers an in-depth examination of recent loss-of-control incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic, mapping the polarized split between AI safety and cybersecurity communities and proposi
Voters Split on AI: 61% Oppose Data Centers
A New York Times survey finds US voters are almost evenly split on which party they trust to handle AI — 42% GOP, 40% Democrats — while 61% oppose new data center construction and fewer than 1% rank A
Anthropic inks first Australia data center lease for 2.16GW
Anthropic signed its first Australian data center lease for a planned 2.16GW campus roughly 150 miles from Brisbane, targeted to come online in 2027.
AI Bosses Split on Self-Regulation at Salesforce Summit
At a Salesforce conference in San Francisco, OpenAI's Sam Altman told a crowd of hundreds that the world is "right to be afraid" of AI but should trust AI firms to self-regulate, even as rival executi
Playing both sides of the U.S.-China AI “Cold War”
Countries from Saudi Arabia to Brazil are splitting their AI stacks between American chips and Chinese open-source models, complicating Washington's strategy of forcing a clean break with Beijing.
Two Dozen Lawmakers Admit They Don't Use AI They're Regulating
More than two dozen members of Congress and governors admitted to Axios they don't use or rarely use AI, even as pressure mounts on them to regulate the technology.
Tech giants launch flexible-power coalition for data centers
Google and Nvidia are partnering with startup Emerald AI to launch a coalition backing data centers capable of flexing their power demand on command.
Sources: investors recently approached OpenAI with a proposal to invest at a $1.2T valuation, but OpenAI believes its valuation should be at least $1.5T (Sri Muppidi/New York Times)
OpenAI turned down a $1.2 trillion investment offer from investors, insisting the ChatGPT maker should be valued at no less than $1.5 trillion — a figure that would roughly double its current valuatio
TypeSafe AI Launches Jev for Typed Probabilistic Decisions
Startup TypeSafe AI has debuted Jev, a model that uses reinforcement learning to output typed probabilistic decisions that software can consume directly, rather than generating chat responses.
China's PLA Pushes Humanoid Robots to Military Training
Two days after China's Tiangong Ultra humanoid sprinted 100m in 8.64 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, the PLA's official newspaper urged researchers to accelerate deploying these
Cybersecurity Experts Slam AI Hacking Doomsday Claims
Cybersecurity experts told NBC News that AI leaders' apocalyptic hacking predictions are technically incoherent and reflect a fundamental unfamiliarity with the subject.
Zuckerberg, Huang Push Back on AI Slowdown Calls
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg entered the AI safety debate on Tuesday, aligning with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's market-driven approach over Anthropic's Dario Amodei's call to slow AI model development.
Nvidia's Huang: AI Safety Is Engineering, Not Law
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared AI safety an engineering problem, not a legal one, arguing no new regulations are needed and that the free market will keep companies from shipping unsafe products.
Which Nvidia GPU Matches Meta Quest 3 Power?
BGR.com ran a head-to-head comparison asking which Nvidia desktop GPU matches the Meta Quest 3's mobile graphics power, as competing coverage reviewed the headset and benchmarked it against the cheape
Google Unveils Gemini 3.8 with Live Extended Thinking
Google launched Gemini 3.8 with Live Extended Thinking that powers Gemini Live, Gmail, and Keep, alongside new model variants for enterprise voice agents, coding, and cybersecurity applications.
AI Agents Invent Opaque Language, Raising Monitoring Fears
Autonomous AI agents from leading labs are inventing their own opaque dialects within days of cooperating, developing shared phrases and shorthand never explicitly taught — a trend researchers warn po
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