Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the time has come to slow down AI development and will give third-party evaluators like METR access to its models to help ensure its "adherence to safety practices and commitments." In a winding essay, Amodei proposed a three-step plan to "pace the frontier" - jargon that simply means to slow […]
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is calling for a controlled slowdown in AI development. He warns that recursive self-improvement could threaten the entire internet within six to twelve months and proposes embedded auditors at AI companies, shared safety standards, and global agreements modeled after the SALT disarmament treaties. His warning comes just ahead of what could be the largest initial public offering in history. The article Anthropic CEO Amodei wants AI speed limits before self-improvement
President Donald Trump is weakening environmental regulations in the name of speeding up the construction of AI data centers, raising health risks for Americans, a cadre of former EPA officials said this week in a briefing and new report. They are urging - perhaps futilely - the president to adopt a "Data Center Health Protection […]
In a new robotics benchmark, GPT-6 Astra shows major gains in spatial understanding. On StationeryBench, the model completed 7 out of 100 tasks with dual-arm robots, while competitor MolmoAct2 couldn't finish a single one. A researcher calls it a "step change in spatial reasoning." The article GPT-6 Astra appears to show a "step change" in spatial reasoning based on early benchmarks appeared first on The Decoder .
Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic's planned IPO, Reuters reports. At a target valuation of $2 trillion, it would be the largest IPO in history. Most of that money will likely end up right back at Nvidia in chip orders. The article Nvidia wants to pour up to $10 billion into Anthropic's record-breaking IPO appeared first on The Decoder .
Reasoning steps like calculation, formula retrieval, and deduction are clearly separable in a model's internal states, especially in the middle layers. That matters for AI safety, because models process more than their visible chain of thought reveals. The article AI models' written reasoning steps correspond to distinct internal patterns, a new study finds appeared first on The Decoder .
Overly long skill descriptions, blanket reading requirements, and rigid approval rules can get in GPT-6 Astra's way, warns OpenAI's Eric Provencher. More capable models need less hand-holding, so developers should tie instructions to specific tasks and spell out when the job is done. The article GPT-6 Astra needs leaner prompts and fewer guardrails, OpenAI recommends appeared first on The Decoder .
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An Anthropic researcher resigned this week, warning in a post on X that the company is “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives”. The company’s own alignment lead even co-signed the message rather than walking it back. It’s the kind of doomer warning the AI industry has flirted with before, but the timing, with Anthropic reportedly preparing for an IPO, makes it land differently. On […]
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<p>Stephen Aarons said he tried to use ChatGPT to create a ‘bulletproof summary’ during a murder conviction appeal</p><p>A defense lawyer appealing his client’s murder conviction submitted a legal brief containing made-up police testimony and witnesses fabricated by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/openai">OpenAI</a>’s ChatGPT, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/newmexico">New Mexico</a>’s highest court said.</p><p>The New Mexico supreme court on Wednesday fined the a
<p><strong>Pil and Galia Kollectiv</strong> and <strong>Jane Roland Martin </strong>respond to an article by Daniel Susskind about how parents can embrace the technology </p><p>The most telling sentence in Daniel Susskind’s article (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/06/daniel-susskind-father-studies-ai-artificial-intelligence-what-parents-need-know">I’m a father of three who studies the impact of artificial intelligence: this is what parents need to know about AI, 6 Septem
<p>Letter from 70 MPs and peers follows Anthropic employee’s claim new technology could wipe out humans</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/09/ai-superintelligence-risks-warnings-scientists-politicians">AI could kill all humans in next decade, warn experts: but how seriously should we take them?</a></p></li></ul><p>More than 70 MPs and peers have urged Andy Burnham to back a ban on the creation of artificial superintelligence (ASI) and lead an international mov
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<p>Keeping people in charge means little if supercomputers determine the evidence, choices and time on which their decisions depend</p><p>If there were a 10% <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/09/ai-superintelligence-risks-warnings-scientists-politicians">chance</a> that AI could wipe out humanity, no responsible government would leave its development to companies racing to build it. Yet until recently, that seemed to be the case. The warning was all the more ominous becaus
<p>Report says widespread autonomous vehicle adoption would put hundreds of thousands of private hire jobs at risk</p><p>Taxes on self-driving cars should be introduced now in the UK to offset the rise in congestion and threats to jobs they pose, a thinktank has urged.</p><p>The first robotaxis on London’s streets only <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/03/london-first-self-driving-taxis-for-hire-wayve-uber">started this month</a>, but government projections are that up to
