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OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and xAI agreed to slow AI development — critics call it safety-washing to lock out rivals.
A startup's autonomous bots are cold-emailing writers for $25 research gigs and begging admins for accounts, sometimes after 19 failed tries.
Anthropic's CEO wants third-party evaluators embedded in frontier labs. Altman and Hassabis agree. Trump calls it a 'sick conspiracy.'
The acquisition, led by two former Apple Portrait Mode engineers, deepens OpenAI's hardware push after its $6.5B deal for Jony Ive's io.
The Hangzhou founder personally signs off on $15 expenses and gave every senior executive a performance score of 1 out of 1.5.
X voluntarily dismissed all claims against Apple on September 14, leaving OpenAI as the sole defendant heading to trial this fall.
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Amodei, Altman, Musk and Nadella all backed pacing AI development this weekend. The White House says no antitrust waiver is coming.
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The CEO's internal remarks land days after OpenAI asked Congress whether an industry-wide slowdown would even be legal.
The startup hit a $100M revenue run rate 10 months after first deployment and is now installing Blackwell systems at Foxconn with Nvidia.
The University of Pennsylvania team mines living and extinct genomes with GPT-powered tools to surface antimicrobial candidates against drug-resistant infections.
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Chip suppliers and AI infrastructure names across Asia sold off after frontier lab chiefs publicly urged the industry to slow down.
The Claude maker has selected the Nasdaq over the NYSE as it moves toward what would be one of the largest AI listings on record.
The CEO told Fortune the company won't rush a listing while safety questions dominate, pushing a planned Q3 or Q4 2026 debut into 2027 or later.
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