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Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting
President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are pushing back against calls from leading AI CEOs — including Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and Elon Musk — to slow frontier AI develo
Trump Dismisses AI Risk Warnings, Vows to 'Win' China Race
President Trump dismissed existential AI risk warnings from researchers during a visit to Ireland, insisting the US must stay ahead of China, even as industry leaders including Elon Musk and Sam Altma
Washington races for AI rules as CEOs sound alarm
Washington is scrambling to pass AI safety legislation after CEOs of frontier AI companies warned of existential risks, but House Speaker Mike Johnson ruled out keeping Congress in session, citing the
Sacks to OpenAI, Anthropic: Self-Pace AI, Drop Regulatory Demands
David Sacks publicly challenged OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs Sam Altman and Dario Amodei to self-pace frontier AI development on their own, arguing the two firms hold a 'duopoly' on frontier intelligence
Amodei: China Is 'Toughest Dilemma' for AI Slowdown Plan
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay proposing a three-step plan to slow frontier AI development, telling CBS the 'toughest dilemma' is what happens if adversarial nations like China refuse t
Xi Pitches BRICS AI Open-Source Community at Summit
President Xi Jinping told the BRICS summit in New Delhi that China will take the lead in building an AI open-source community and digital cooperation platform across the bloc, while sidestepping the A
Obama Urges Democrats: AI Must Be 'Central Agenda'
Former President Barack Obama urged Democrats at a Thursday fundraiser to make AI safeguards a 'central agenda' with a clear plan once they retake the House, positioning himself as a sounding board fo
Waymo Robotaxi Calls Cops on Passengers with Ghost Gun
A Waymo robotaxi in San Francisco pulled over and called police on two juvenile passengers after detecting they were carrying a loaded AR-style ghost gun, leading to their arrest and a confirmation fr
Anthropic: Houthis Used Claude Code for Missile Guidance
Anthropic's September threat report says a Houthi-linked cell in northern Yemen used Claude Code to design missile guidance software, simulate trajectories, and analyze a failed rocket test — compress
US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs
The FBI arrested CBP supervisor Terry "Jiajia" Liu for allegedly stealing CPUs, RAM, and hard drives from 46 DHS computers at three Maine border facilities, swapping in inferior parts and trading them
Altman, Musk back Amodei's push to slow AI development
Three of AI's fiercest rivals — Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Elon Musk — publicly aligned Saturday behind a call to slow frontier AI development, while Altman separately confirmed an OpenAI IPO would
Your car is selling your data
Automakers across the industry collect and sell massive amounts of driver data — often without clear consent — prompting an unprecedented FTC penalty against GM and new federal proposals that privacy
Attackers Use Passkey Phishing to Hijack Microsoft Cloud Accounts and Exfiltrate Data
Microsoft disclosed two ongoing threat campaigns: one blasting over a million AI-generated CEO-impersonation scam emails to trigger fraudulent ACH transfers, and another using passkey-themed phishing
AI Agents Drive Data Center Power Boom
AI agents — autonomous systems that chain hundreds of self-prompted tasks to build things like websites or solve math problems — are far more energy-hungry than simple chatbot queries, driving a massi
Revolut confirms customer data breach via fake government emails
Revolut disclosed sensitive customer data — including passports, driver's licenses, and selfies — to an unauthorized party that impersonated a government agency via email, affecting a limited but undi
Silicon Valley Pushes Back on Anthropic's AI Warnings
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's warning that AI could 'destroy humanity' was met with skepticism from Silicon Valley executives at Goldman Sachs' annual conference, with critics accusing Ant
Perry Weather Raises $110M Series C
Dallas-based weather monitoring software provider Perry Weather raised a $110 million Series C led by Silversmith Capital Partners, pushing its total funding to roughly $131 million as it doubles down
Altman: OpenAI IPO in 2026 'Ill-Advised'
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed the company will not pursue an IPO in 2026, calling the timing 'ill-advised' amid AI safety concerns during a 45-minute Fortune interview, while also acknowledging it i
Anthropic CEO calls for AI race to slow down citing safety. Musk and OpenAI's Altman agrees
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and Elon Musk have reached an unusual consensus: frontier AI development may need to slow as AI systems become capable of helping build their own succe
OpenAI Cracks Navier-Stokes; Mathematicians Uneasy
OpenAI claims its latest AI model solved the Navier-Stokes equations — a $1m Millennium Prize Problem — deploying 10,000 autonomous agents at an estimated cost of $15m. Mathematicians reacted with ala
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