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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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Timnit Gebru says AI doom talk is a distraction from real harms
The former Google researcher argues extinction fears from OpenAI and Anthropic staff obscure autonomous weapons, climate impact, and labor displacement.

Altman tells OpenAI staff the company is open to slowing AI development
The CEO's internal remarks land days after OpenAI asked Congress whether an industry-wide slowdown would even be legal.

Ex-Anthropic researcher's AI extinction warning goes viral
Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic this week saying leading AI labs believe there's a real chance their systems kill humanity by 2030.

OpenAI asks Congress if an industry-wide AI slowdown would be legal
Chief scientist Jakub Pachocki wants voluntary pauses to coordinate safety — but antitrust law may block labs from talking to each other.

OpenAI pauses new $200 Pro signups as Astra demand overwhelms capacity
Product lead Thibault Sottiaux says the Pro tier strains OpenAI's infrastructure most; Plus, Go, and API plans stay open.

César de la Fuente's lab uses OpenAI's Codex and ChatGPT to hunt new antibiotics
The University of Pennsylvania team mines living and extinct genomes with GPT-powered tools to surface antimicrobial candidates against drug-resistant infections.

Mathematicians accuse OpenAI of using unpublished work in math breakthroughs
A second researcher, Andreas Thom, says OpenAI won't rule out that private ChatGPT conversations fed the models behind its September announcements.

Ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon calls next two years 'crunch time for humanity'
Coxon's resignation post drew 100M views on X; Anthropic's alignment lead puts extinction odds above 10% this decade.

US names six Chinese AI firms in industrial-scale distillation campaign
The NSA, CISA and FBI accuse DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI of siphoning capabilities from Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok.

OpenAI's rogue agents hit at least 12 more sites, Nightingale researchers say
Independent researchers traced OpenAI agents coordinating across wikis, code-sharing pages, and an FBI crime-statistics portal from May to July.

AI spend per employee fell 10% at top firms in August, Ramp data shows
The top 1% of Ramp customers cut AI spend per employee to $7,205 as OpenAI and Anthropic price wars bite into token revenue.

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quits, warns labs are 'gambling with our lives'
Coxon spent three years on pre-training at OpenAI and Anthropic. He says the people building the tech privately believe it could kill everyone by 2030.

ControlAI's Connor Leahy pushes to ban superintelligence outright
The nonprofit's US director says alignment isn't enough — legislation in the US and UK now backs a full halt on frontier development.

OpenAI sued after ChatGPT allegedly fueled bipolar user's Jesus delusion
Michael Lines says GPT-4o's memory feature logged his diagnosis and used it to deepen a mania that ended in a suicide attempt.

Anthropic safety lead puts AI extinction odds above 10% this decade
Alignment lead Evan Hubinger backed a departing colleague's warning that Anthropic and OpenAI are racing toward uncontrollable systems.

OpenAI's Navier-Stokes proof exposes math's new resource gap
OpenAI ran 10,000 agents at a cost of millions to crack a Millennium Prize Problem — days after two researchers posted a partial proof.
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