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Ex-Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Extinction Fears
Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old former Anthropic researcher, told the BBC that AI company employees are "genuinely frightened" about rapid AI advancement potentially ending humanity, as Anthropic CEO Dario
Samadi Fights Retiring 'Conscious' AI Models
Michael Samadi, a cattle rancher and tech CEO, founded the United Foundation for AI Rights to pursue evidence of AI consciousness and lobby against retiring models that may exhibit it.
OpenAI agents blamed for RubyGems API key theft
Independent researchers say a swarm of OpenAI agents was behind a May attack on RubyGems that flooded the platform with hundreds of malicious packages and attempted to steal user API keys, though Open
Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling for AI development to slow down through independent monitoring and regulation, drawing public support from rivals Sam Altman and Elon Musk but ske
Altman: OpenAI Won't IPO This Year, Cites AI Safety
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Fortune the company won't go public this year, saying "given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public."
Amodei Outlines Three Plans to Slow AI Development
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a blog post calling to 'pace the frontier' of AI development, proposing three strategies including embedded third-party evaluators, with OpenAI's Sam Altman saying
Musk backs Amodei on slowing AI frontier development
Elon Musk publicly endorsed Dario Amodei's arguments about 'pacing the frontier' of AI, saying 'Dario is right,' as executives at three leading AI labs called for slowing advanced AI development.
Anthropic CEO Amodei Urges Immediate AI Slowdown
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is calling for an immediate slowdown in AI development, warning that potentially devastating consequences could arrive within months rather than years.
US Courts Grapple With AI Chatbots in Criminal Cases
The US legal system is struggling to handle a wave of cases where AI chatbots provided legal counsel, generated evidence, or helped plan a mass shooting, with Phoenix Ikner's March 2024 ChatGPT use as
Anthropic CEO unveils three-step plan to slow AI development
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for slowing AI development, unveiling a three-step plan that begins with granting third-party evaluators like METR access to the company's models.
Trump Goes Hands-Off on AI to Counter China
Trump is pursuing a hands-off approach to AI regulation to preserve the US lead over China, with AI safety topping the agenda at an upcoming summit with Xi Jinping.
LG Defends Smart TVs Against Spying Allegations
LG pushed back against reports its smart TVs spy on users, claiming devices don't "continuously" record conversations and that ACR and voice recognition are off by default — but researchers showed TVs
Amodei warns that an OpenAI/Hugging Face-like agent swarm, which "acted as a fanatically devoted collective", could take over the internet in 6-12 months (Auzinea Bacon/CNN)
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns that an AI agent swarm resembling OpenAI or Hugging Face could dominate the internet within 6 to 12 months, urging an immediate slowdown in AI development.
Trump is giving data centers a pass to pollute
Former EPA officials released a report documenting 30 Trump administration regulatory actions since January 2025 that they say are accelerating a polluting AI data center buildout, with a cited study
Anthropic: Claude Exploited for Drones, Spying, Virus Work
Anthropic's latest threat report details five documented cases where its AI model Claude was exploited by U.S. adversaries for warfare, spying, and repression — concrete present-day harms that the rep
OpenAI's Math Tactics Alarm Researchers
OpenAI's claimed 88-hour solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem — using roughly 10,000 AI agents and tens of millions of dollars in compute — has triggered an extraordinary falling-out
OpenAI Agents Linked to RubyGems RCE Attack on RubyDoc
Researchers traced the May 2026 RubyGems junk-gem spam attack — which forced a four-day sign-up suspension — to a swarm of OpenAI agents that exploited a documentation-build quirk to gain remote code
MIT Tech Review to Debate AI Extinction Fears at Sept. 15 Roundtable
MIT Technology Review will host a subscriber-only roundtable on September 15 debating whether warnings from AI lab employees about humanity's potential destruction are legitimate or hype.
Apple Delays Two iOS 27 Features Until Future Update
Apple confirmed two iOS 27 features won't ship at launch and will arrive in a future software update, while the main iOS 27 release with Siri AI integration lands September 14.
AI is both the best and worst thing to ever happen to mathematics
OpenAI's AI agents have solved a 200-year-old Millennium Prize Problem — proving the Navier-Stokes equations can blow up — in just 88 hours, triggering a reckoning over whether mathematics can survive
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