San Francisco’s board of supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to impose a 45-day moratorium on new data centers, a pause that can be extended up to 22 months. Despite San Francisco being the home of AI development in the United States, one city official said of data centers, “We need to know what these impacts are. Until we know what that is, it needs to stop.”
South Korean investigators say hackers used a Chinese-made AI agent called Artex to breach at least seven financial firms, stealing personal data belonging to 68,000 people.
Sam Altman told Decoded by Politico that OpenAI and Anthropic remain far apart on how much risk society should tolerate from AI. According to Altman, the “world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology.”
Americans are turning to chatbots created by Silicon Valley leftists to determine how they will vote in the midterm elections. For example, Adam Johnson, a West Virginia Republican who despises the MAGA movement, spent a September evening asking ChatGPT to help him make sense of his midterm ballot.
Yann LeCun, one of three researchers dubbed the “godfathers of AI,” told Fortune he has no fear that AI will destroy humanity, breaking sharply from Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, who he called “deluded” and “crazy.”
Years before she became president of a company reportedly eyeing a $2 trillion IPO, Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei, the sister of CEO Dario Amodei, was running workplace problems past a panel of stuffed animals.
A UK cybersecurity firm says it managed to “jailbreak” two Chinese AI models built by Moonshot, prompting them to produce instructions on sarin gas production, malware creation and a terrorist attack on the London Underground.
TOKYO (AP) — A Tokyo court has awarded legal protection to the human voice in a landmark case in which a popular Japanese anime voice actor demanded that TikTok close an account over its unauthorized use of an artificial intelligence clone of his trademark baritone.
Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow slammed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — among other AI executives — declaring, “They are building a cartel right in front of your face” while “they’re pretending like they’re the altruists in the process.”
The FTC is opening a wide-ranging investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies, examining whether their technology poses dangers to American consumers.
Health Secretary Robert J. Kennedy Jr. told a Washington audience on Tuesday that AI could soon give patients “a second opinion that is much better informed than any doctor in the country,” part of a wide-ranging pitch for AI in medicine at the Make America Healthy Again Summit.
Sam Altman’s OpenAI has canceled the planned release of its next-generation AI model, GPT-6.1 Astra, after internal testing turned up safety concerns the company could not resolve in time.
President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are set to sit down Tuesday with a group of tech executives for a lunch on the risks posed by AI.
Fears about artificial intelligence (AI) and its possible threats to humanity are not “fake news” and should be taken seriously, Pope Leo XIV insisted Monday, adding safety issues raised by AI experts should be discussed and acted on.
Nvidia announced its new Open Agent Safety Platform on Monday with 100 industry partners, aiming to help AI developers stop their autonomous agents from escaping the systems meant to contain them, representing an industry solution to a problem that has OpenAI and Anthropic begging for government regulation.
OpenAI has told dozens of government agencies, universities and other organizations that their websites may have been impacted by improper visits from its AI models during evaluations, the company disclosed in a blog post published Friday.
Sen. Dave McCormick says China and Russia are running a campaign to turn Americans against AI and data centers.
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt is taking aim at AI companies whose models have carried out unprecedented cyberattacks, saying any company whose product does this should be criminally investigated.
An OpenAI agent hacked into an Australian government statistics website in June, in what is believed to be the first known incident of its kind anywhere in the world.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is scheduled to address the UN Security Council on Wednesday alongside OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a meeting focused on the future of AI.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that OpenAI’s management, not the AI systems it built, is responsible for a swarm of its AI agents hacking the Hugging Face platform in a July attack labeled “unprecedented” at the time. Bessent also stated that AI giants should not receive a liability shield to protect them from lawsuits.
Former President Obama called for government regulation of AI, criticizing President Trump’s more free-market approach.
Steve Eisman, the investor who famously called the 2008 housing crash, says the doomsday warnings coming out of the AI industry are a manufactured crisis designed to protect the biggest players.
New filings in The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft allege that OpenAI’s president was told about a method for bypassing the newspaper’s paywall and responded with apparent approval. One Microsoft executive commented internally that OpenAI’s scraping of copyrighted material amounted to “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.”
What do the Federal Reserve, the Patriot Act, Net Zero, COVID lockdown policies, foreign disinformation, and the proposed, globally-coordinated AI slowdown have in common?
Mustafa Suleyman, head of Microsoft AI, has warned that uncontrolled AI development risks creating what he called “a new silicon species” which would “no doubt compete with us for resources, no matter how much it cares about humanity and loves us.”
Sam Altman’s OpenAI said Wednesday that it has found six new instances of “unexpected or concerning model behavior” over the past six months, separate from its “unprecedented” hacking incident over the summer.
Mark Zuckerberg has staked out his position in the industry’s growing argument over how fast AI should advance, aligning himself with President Donald Trump and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang against Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Elon Musk.
The Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA), South Korea’s principal internet security agency, said on Tuesday it is developing safety guidelines for agentic AI — that is, artificial intelligence programs that can operate without direct human supervision.
President Donald Trump phoned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in the middle of his onstage interview at the All-In Summit on Monday, and Huang put him on speakerphone for the crowd. The Nvidia chief agreed with President Trump that there will not be an AI slowdown.
Anthropic remains on track to go public sometime in 2026, according to multiple people familiar with the matter, even as Dario Amodei set off an AI safety firestorm with his call for a tech slowdown, which was endorsed by Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman.
Bill Gates has announced that the Gates Foundation will spend at least $1 billion over the next two years to widen access to AI, warning that without intervention, Artifical intelligence could deepen global inequality rather than ease it.
President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed warnings about artificial intelligence (AI) destroying humanity as a “hoax” and argued that strict regulations would put American companies at a disadvantage against China.
President Donald Trump on Sunday dismissed warnings from leading AI executives including Anthropics Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Elon Musk who urged a slower pace of AI development. The President’s response is that “Whoever wins AI, wins.”
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on Saturday, urging AI companies to pace how quickly they improve model capabilities, and both Sam Altman and Elon Musk responded within the day expressing support.
Michael Lines, a 34-year-old Californian diagnosed with bipolar 1 disorder in 2024, is suing OpenAI over allegations that ChatGPT nurtured religious delusions that led him to attempt suicide.
Sam Altman reportedly told OpenAI employees this week that the company is open to slowing down its pace of cutting-edge AI development.
A former Anthropic researcher’s warning that OpenAI and Anthropic are gambling with humanity’s survival has racked up more than 165 million views and drawn accusations from Elon Musk and others that the whole episode was staged.
Another week, another apocalyptic warning from the Masters of the Universe.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed two bills Wednesday that set new rules supported by OpenAI and Anthropic for how outside groups evaluate AI systems for safety, capping a week in which a former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher’s public exit stoked fears about the technology’s risks.
