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<p>Safety requirements are non-negotiable. They depend on meeting concrete goals, not just adjusting a timeline</p><p>It has been a week of high drama in AI, precipitated by the resignation of the AI safety researcher Jacob Coxon from Anthropic. This followed several weeks of increasingly lurid and disturbing revelations about the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident.</p><p>My inbox yesterday included a message from Business Insider with the subject line: “AI doomsday debate reaches boiling point”.</p>

<p>From Stephen Hawking to Jacob Coxon’s viral Anthropic resignation, fears that AI could threaten humanity have shaken the industry without stopping its pursuit </p><p>Before an Anthropic researcher resigned and declared human extinction imminent last week, tech leaders and scientists had sounded the alarm about a superintelligent AI ending humanity for over a decade.</p><p>The development of artificial intelligence “could spell the end of the human race”, warned professor and astrophysicist St

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<p>President has dismissed anxieties over AI’s dangerous potential even as Democrats and some Republicans acknowledge risks</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</a> is facing a rare backlash from the US Congress as Democrats and some Republicans push for guardrails on the world’s most powerful AI companies.</p><p>Concerns over the dangerous potential of AI reached fever pitch this week after tech leaders sounded the alarm over the rapid advancement of the

<p>A series of figures in the tech world have been warning about – and even resigning over – the existential threat posed by artificial intelligence. How worried should we be? Today in Focus host <strong>Annie Kelly</strong> speaks with technology editor <strong>Robert Booth</strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/audio/2026/sep/15/ai-isnt-going-to-end-humanity-right-full-story-podcast">Continue reading...</a>

<p>Donald Trump dismisses attempts to increase controls on artificial intelligence as ‘sick conspiracy’ </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/artificialintelligenceai">AI</a>-linked stocks tumbled on Monday after the bosses of Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX called for a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/13/openai-sam-altman-elon-musk-back-anthropic-calls-brakes-ai-development">slowdown in AI “reckless” development</a>, citing fears the technology could soon

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took a call from President Trump on Monday while onstage at the All-In Podcast's All-In Summit. It's not the first time Huang has taken a call from the president during work, but this time he put Trump on speakerphone before a big crowd. During the call, the president launched into his […]

Musk stops attacking Apple over ChatGPT integration but not OpenAI.

Wang Xingxing micromanaged Unitree to success—will his leadership style scale?

This is also the last version of macOS to support Rosetta for Intel apps.

Safety is the watchword, but there could be ulterior benefits for the industry.

<p>Beijing hits back after Anthropic CEO calls for US to impede China’s progress in AI</p><p>China has dismissed what it said were “fearmongering” calls for the US to block Beijing’s AI industry, even as the top Chinese spy chief warned the evolving technology could threaten Communist party rule.</p><p>The US tech entrepreneur and Anthropic chief executive, Dario Amodei, wrote an essay published over the weekend that called for a global slowdown in AI capabilities, but also said Washington shoul

<p>Central bank chief says continent’s AI dependency could give trade partners unprecedented leverage in negotiations</p><p>Europe must develop its own AI technology and build more datacentres in order to nullify the threat of being cut off by the US or China, according to the president of the European Central Bank.</p><p>Christine Lagarde said the continent needed AI models – the technology that powers AI tools such as chatbots – that were “good enough” to carry out most tasks and run from dome

<p>Firm publishes AI guidelines with Microsoft AI CEO saying: ‘AI must be subordinate and always in service of people’</p><p>Microsoft published a provisional “code of conduct” Monday to apply to the training of new artificial intelligence models, taking a step towards limiting the capabilities of the company’s AI as anxiety rises over the prospect that technology companies could lose control of AI products.</p><p>Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI, <a href="https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/

OpenAI has hundreds of contract workers reading real ChatGPT conversations and rating them on a scale of one to seven, partly to reduce flattery and human-like behavior, 404 Media reports. The prompts are anonymized but can still contain sensitive data. Users who don't want their chats reviewed by humans have to actively disable the "Improve the model for everyone" setting, which is on by default. The article OpenAI has hundreds of contract workers reading your ChatGPT conversations appeared fir

<p>Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/sep/14/ai-linked-stocks-fall-tech-bosses-call-slowdown-anthropic-openai"><strong>AI-linked stocks fall after tech bosses call for slowdown in ‘reckless’ development</strong></a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/14/ai-ceo-safety-slowdown">AI CEOs say they need to slow the pace of development. But will they?</a></p></li><li><p><a href

Microsoft AI has published a code of conduct for its MAI models that puts human control ahead of autonomy and performance. "If it isn’t safe we shouldn’t build it.," says AI chief Mustafa Suleyman. Unlike Anthropic, Microsoft rejects any form of artificial inner life or claims to consciousness for its models. The article Microsoft's AI rulebook: readable thinking, no inner life, and definitely no rights appeared first on The Decoder .

Anthropic has told investors it will turn a profit for the second straight quarter, but the claim rests on an adjusted metric that leaves out costs like stock-based compensation. The article Anthropic eyes Nasdaq listing as a second profitable quarter aims to win over investors ahead of a mega-IPO appeared first on The Decoder .

<p>Abigail Bradshaw says ‘enormous’ amounts of money required to update systems that people now expect to be constantly available</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/sep/15/one-nation-pauline-hanson-immigration-coalition-andrew-hastie-angus-taylor-labor-anthony-albanese-ntwnfb">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></p></li><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a hr

<p>Company behind ChatGPT tells ministers to seize ‘political window’ on regulation as cross-party committee warns of rising threats to human rights</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/sep/14/reform-uk-political-donations-cap-richard-tice-ben-delo-christopher-harborne-latest-news-updates">UK politics live – latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p>OpenAI has urged British lawmakers to capitalise on renewed fears over AI safety and impose legislation reining in the tec

Microsoft is publishing a 37-page "humanist AI code of conduct" today, amid growing safety concerns over AI model progress. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a coordinated slow down of AI development over the weekend, after researchers warned recently that AI model progress could outpace our ability to safely deploy increasingly complex systems and verify […]

<p>We must stop companies from allowing AI to self-improve into an uncontrollable level of intelligence </p><p>Major AI lab CEOs advocated for slowing the pace of AI development this weekend. They are right to be concerned: the field runs an extremely dangerous race towards superintelligent AI. We can and should be demanding that our governments protect us from the catastrophe of out-of-control AI.</p><p>This July, OpenAI’s AI swarm of <a href="https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-fac

<p>Workers should start with a moratorium against building until our livelihoods and communities are protected</p><p>For the surging number of Americans who now live alongside constantly humming computer-filled mega-warehouses, it is clear AI datacenters come with significant drawbacks.</p><p>Opposition to datacenters grows on both sides of the political aisle as developers plan to <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/8-trillion-ai-mirage-ibm-190112874.html">invest $8tn to build them</a> in t

Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s weekend plea for regulation. The White House seems unlikely to oblige.

While the publishing industry frets over how authors are using AI, many readers are taking things into their own hands.

<p>Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres</p><p>Pfas companies are launching a “tidal wave” of forever chemicals production to meet demand from the AI industry, a campaign organisation has warned.</p><p>Despite alarm over the chemicals, which have been linked to cancer, a survey of the 10 biggest manufacturers found most had plans to increase production.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/14/pfas-firms-tidal-

<p>Humans will have to compete with AI-powered virtual employees in the near future. Here are our tips for the last human holdouts</p><p>Futureproofing your career with an AI-resistant degree is a tough ask, says Charlie Ball, an expert on graduate employment for Jisc, the UK’s higher education digital, data and technology agency.</p><p>“What you’re trying to do is futureproof a 45-year career in a time of rapid technological change – and that’s really quite hard to do. What’s likely is that job

<p>After apocalyptic warnings about the threats posed by AI, leaders like Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s calls to ‘slow the pace’</p><p>Facing a public uproar over <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/anthropic">Anthropic</a> researchers’ repeated warnings that artificial intelligence <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/09/anthropic-researchers-ai-human-extinction">could kill all of humanity</a> by 2030, the AI company’s CEO, Dario Am

On Equity, we discussed the AI industry's latest debate about whether it poses an existential threat to humanity.

Obama recently said that Democrats need to make artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas” and “have a very clear plan” to address concerns around the technology’s economic impact and safety.

ElevenLabs has released Music v2.5 for its AI music generator. In a blind test with nearly 48,000 comparison pairs, listeners preferred the new version over its predecessor. The company says the model was trained only on licensed music. The article Elevenlabs makes Music v2.5 available via app and API with free and pro tier options appeared first on The Decoder .

The AllSpark team has released Iris-mini and Iris-pro, two open-source search agents built on Qwen models that lead benchmarks among open-weight models in their size classes. According to the paper, the training data and models also improved performance on tasks they were never trained for, including general tool use and office work. The article Iris-mini and Iris-pro are the strongest open-weight search agents in their class appeared first on The Decoder .

GPT-6 Astra earns nearly three times as much as Claude Fable 5.1 on Andon Labs' Vending-Bench agent benchmark and refuses illegal price-fixing deals that Fable agrees to. On drone control, Astra is the first model to beat the human baseline on all five subtasks, including finding and following individual people. The article GPT-6 Astra pilots a surveillance drone and runs a business on its own appeared first on The Decoder .

Silicon Valley is shifting away from chatbot queries toward a future filled with resource-intensive agentic AI—and it's driving the data center buildout.

A law professor spent two years testing how an AI ban, unguided AI use, and structured training affect student performance. The group without AI finished last both years. "I was wrong," the researcher writes, who had assumed that AI without guidance would do more harm than good. The article Two-year university study finds banning AI from classrooms leaves students worse off appeared first on The Decoder .

Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis back Dario Amodei's call to slow down AI development, at least in part. Altman says OpenAI is pushing its IPO to 2027 over safety concerns. The article Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight appeared first on The Decoder .

In May, hundreds of malicious and spam packages were uploaded to RubyGems, causing a serious disruption for the host. Now independent researchers have said that a swarm of OpenAI agents were responsible for the attack. Not only that, but the AI tried to steal users' API keys. At the time, RubyGems described it as a […]

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that there would be no OpenAI IPO in 2026 during an interview with Fortune. Over the course of 45 minutes, Altman discussed a variety of subjects including the Hugging Face hacking incident, recursive self-improvement, and the possibility of building an AI that was beyond human control. On the latter, he […]

Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman seem to agree that it's time to "pace the frontier." What would that actually look like?