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Nvidia's Jensen Huang says AI needs fossil fuels now to save the planet later

The Nvidia CEO told Ezra Klein that AI's climate cost is like surgery — pain now, healing later. Health researchers dispute the framing.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
68% of daily US AI users are worried about AI, Gallup finds
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68% of daily US AI users are worried about AI, Gallup finds

A 37-country Gallup study commissioned by Microsoft shows Americans lead the world in AI anxiety even as adoption climbs.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Greek PM Mitsotakis tells Silicon Valley he has no AI playbook
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Greek PM Mitsotakis tells Silicon Valley he has no AI playbook

In San Francisco, Kyriakos Mitsotakis pitched Greece as a tech hub while conceding governments are already behind on AI chatbots and job displacement.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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A WIRED reporter built Gemini clones of her editors. It got strange fast.

Kate Taylor fed 17,000 words of coworker data into Gemini to build bot versions of her bosses. The results tested the limits of workplace AI.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Gebru and Bender: 2026's AI breakthrough claims collapse under scrutiny
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Gebru and Bender: 2026's AI breakthrough claims collapse under scrutiny

The DAIR director and University of Washington linguist argue Anthropic and OpenAI's summer math and security claims are marketing, not science.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Apple retail architect Ron Johnson rejects Silicon Valley's agentic commerce bet

The former Apple retail chief says AI agents will inform shoppers, not replace the store — a direct challenge to Google and OpenAI's commerce push.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
World model labs stay quiet on what they're actually building
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World model labs stay quiet on what they're actually building

AMI Labs and World Labs have raised big and shipped little, and their suppliers are as much in the dark as the public.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Anthropic's Amodei pitches 'pace the frontier' plan as Nvidia's Huang pushes back

The Anthropic CEO wants independent safety evaluators and cross-lab coordination. Jensen Huang isn't buying it.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
MIT Technology Review tackles the 'will AI kill us all' question head-on
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MIT Technology Review tackles the 'will AI kill us all' question head-on

Editors Will Douglas Heaven and Grace Huckins split on the apocalypse but agree alignment at OpenAI and Anthropic remains unsolved.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google DeepMind launches institute to shape the AGI safety debate

Four inaugural essays propose a US-led frontier standards body, transparency limits, and a possible coordinated slowdown.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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AI safety debate splits industry as labs jockey over who writes the rules

Amodei wants coordinated guardrails, Zuckerberg wants the market to sort it out, and Cohere's CEO calls the whole thing a cartel.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Fountain 0's fully AI-generated Odyssey film lands with a thud
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Fountain 0's fully AI-generated Odyssey film lands with a thud

Odysseus: The Fall runs 2.5 hours, rents for $9.99, and struggles to hold basic visual continuity from shot to shot.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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China rejects Anthropic's call to pace AI development

Beijing officials and Chinese AI researchers dismiss Dario Amodei's slowdown proposal as a ploy to lock in a US lead.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
AI CEOs have called for regulation for a decade. Little has passed.
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AI CEOs have called for regulation for a decade. Little has passed.

From Musk in 2017 to Altman, Amodei, Hassabis, and Nadella today — the pattern of executive alarm-bells rarely produces binding law.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Nvidia's Jensen Huang tells regulators to stay out of AI safety

Huang says market forces already police unsafe AI products and dismisses calls for new laws at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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AI lab CEOs pivot to 'pacing' after years of racing to superintelligence

Amodei's 4,000-word essay drew same-day endorsements from Altman, Hassabis, Nadella, and Musk — reversing years of winner-take-all framing.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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AI labs' 'pace the frontier' pact draws cartel accusations

OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and xAI agreed to slow AI development — critics call it safety-washing to lock out rivals.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Amodei's 'Pace the Frontier' essay draws Altman, Musk, Trump into AI slowdown debate

Anthropic's CEO wants third-party evaluators embedded in frontier labs. Altman and Hassabis agree. Trump calls it a 'sick conspiracy.'

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Top AI lab CEOs align on slowdown after Hugging Face agent hack

Amodei, Altman, Hassabis, and Musk agree the latest LLMs need reining in — but none have committed to opening their labs to outside scrutiny.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Trump team to AI labs: if you want a slowdown, do it yourselves

Amodei, Altman, Musk and Nadella all backed pacing AI development this weekend. The White House says no antitrust waiver is coming.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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China state paper calls Anthropic's slow-AI push a Cold War tactic

Beijing's official press frames Anthropic's safety advocacy as a US strategy to hobble Chinese AI development.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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AI doom warnings intensify as Anthropic nears its S-1 filing

A departing Anthropic researcher, an alignment lead's viral post, and a >10% extinction estimate collide with an imminent IPO.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Anthropic's Amodei urges rival AI labs to slow model development

The Anthropic CEO says the pace of frontier model releases is outrunning the industry's ability to control misuse.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Anthropic's Amodei lays out a three-part plan to slow AI progress

Dario Amodei wants embedded third-party evaluators, coordinated safety standards across US labs, and narrow deals with China.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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