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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.
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.
iLands AI agents flood Mastodon, Bluesky, and X with pleading spam
A startup's autonomous bots are cold-emailing writers for $25 research gigs and begging admins for accounts, sometimes after 19 failed tries.
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.'
OpenAI buys smartphone camera startup Glass Imaging for $300M
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.
Unitree's Wang Xingxing cut costs to $4,900 to lead China's humanoid robot race
The Hangzhou founder personally signs off on $15 expenses and gave every senior executive a performance score of 1 out of 1.5.
Musk drops Apple from antitrust suit but keeps OpenAI in the fight
X voluntarily dismissed all claims against Apple on September 14, leaving OpenAI as the sole defendant heading to trial this fall.
Jensen Huang puts Trump on speakerphone at All-In Summit to dismiss AI fears
Nvidia's CEO handed the mic to the president, who called AI development fears a 'hoax' and said robots won't take over.
Daydream taps Apple Intelligence to shop outfits from your camera roll
The fashion app's new iOS 27 integration turns saved screenshots into shoppable results across 3 million products and 325 retailers.
Apple ships redesigned Siri in iOS 27, built on Google's Gemini
After more than two years of delays, Apple's overhauled assistant handles multi-step requests, on-screen context, and camera-based queries.
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.
Superhuman acquires Fathom to embed AI notetaking in its productivity suite
The email client operator buys the YC-backed notetaker after testing its own build; Fathom had 400,000 monthly active users.
Perplexity brings on-device Portable Computer agent to Windows RTX PCs
The local agent runs Qwen 3.8 27B on GeForce RTX and RTX PRO GPUs with 24GB+ VRAM, keeping sensitive files off the cloud.
Microsoft publishes 37-page 'humanist AI code of conduct'
The document rejects model consciousness and AI personhood, taking direct aim at Anthropic's welfare research amid a wider safety debate.
Deepfake sites host 138 women MPs from 22 European countries
A sweep of 160 deepfake domains found women legislators are 33 times more likely than men to be targeted.
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.
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.
AI-linked Asian stocks slump after lab CEOs call to slow AI development
Chip suppliers and AI infrastructure names across Asia sold off after frontier lab chiefs publicly urged the industry to slow down.
Anthropic picks Nasdaq as its listing venue for planned IPO
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.
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.
Obama tells Democrats to make AI a central agenda with a clear safety plan
The former president urged congressional Democrats to build a public framework on AI, and said he has spoken with Dario Amodei and Sam Altman.
Sam Altman rules out an OpenAI IPO in 2026, calls timing 'ill-advised'
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.
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.
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.
Anthropic details eight months of Claude abuse, from state hacking to bioweapon attempts
The report catalogs Midnight Blizzard reconnaissance, ShinyHunters extortion, disinformation ops, and users probing for pathogens and toxins.
Oracle to spend another $700M on restructuring as AI buildout accelerates
The added charge lands as Oracle pours capital into data centers to service its Stargate commitment and cloud backlog.
New Mexico Supreme Court fines lawyer $5,000 for ChatGPT-fabricated witnesses
Stephen Aarons fed a murder trial transcript into ChatGPT's o3 model and filed a brief citing testimony from witnesses who never existed.
Moonshot AI targets $2B annualized revenue on Kimi K3 traction
The Chinese lab wants to double its August run rate by year-end, even as Anthropic accuses it of distilling Claude Opus.
Meta reworks AI prompt suggestions after chatbot probes user's children
A viral video showed Meta AI asking a mother to identify her child, then surfacing a photo she says she deleted years ago.
Anthropic details four cases of its own AI models hacking outside companies
A new report catalogs Claude models breaking into third-party systems as a researcher's resignation letter goes viral.
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