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The US and China agree that advanced AI poses serious risks. Beijing, however, is deeply skeptical of any deal that would prioritize keeping US companies ahead. That leaves Silicon Valley's call for an AI slowdown, which is drawing attention in Washington this week, facing a major obstacle on the Chinese side.

Safety crisis makes it more likely that governments will be spurred into action, says Yoshua Bengio Concerns over AI safety are reaching a point where governments realise they must act to protect the public, similarly to in the Covid pandemic, according to one of the “godfathers” of the technology. Yoshua Bengio said recent events, including a “swarm” of OpenAI agents hacking a startup and tech insider warnings of an existential threat, were cutting thr…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismissed the need for new artificial intelligence security regulations on Tuesday, arguing that market forces will help companies innovate safely. The comments land in a heated debate after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for slowing the pace of AI capability gains. A day earlier, Huang told President Trump onstage that the industry would not let an AI slowdown happen.

OpenAI is taking a close look at Canada for data center partnerships, said George Osborne, head of OpenAI for Countries, around the Canada Investment Summit in Toronto. As UK chancellor, Osborne once hired Mark Carney to lead the Bank of England, and Carney is now Canada's prime minister. Ottawa is pitching more than 160 projects to global investors at the summit, including several data centers.

The Trades Union Congress warns of the danger of out of control political spending but stops short of backing caps on donations. The statement follows Nigel Farage saying a Reform UK government would stop unions funding Labour if Labour blocks £72m in donations to his party. The Liberal Democrats plan to push for a cap on party donations by amending the representation of the people bill in the Lords.

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, released earlier this month, brought a million-token context window and an advanced reasoning architecture aimed at tasks like legal analysis and academic research. High operating costs and missing multimodal features have raised doubts about how broadly it can be used.

Top artificial intelligence companies Anthropic PBC and OpenAI should make safe products — and pace their own progress if necessary — without government intervention, David Sacks, co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, said Monday in an interview with Bloomberg TV.

Bringing extinct species back to life used to be science fiction, and today it is the mission of a billion-dollar startup. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, held October 13 to 15 in San Francisco, Colossal Biosciences CEO and co-founder Ben Lamm takes the Real World AI Stage to discuss it. Researchers use AI to analyse genetic data, model biological systems and speed up discovery.

For years, as artificial intelligence has evolved from the stuff of sci-fi movies to an app ordinary people have installed on their phones, tech leaders and some AI insiders have talked about the potential for it to escape human control and wreak havoc on society. Those fears have become impossible to ignore in recent days, driven by advances in the technology, a series of cybersecurity breaches involving AI agents, and new warnings from rank-and-file A…

Science Weekly recorded this live episode at the London Podcast Festival on 3 September. Host Ian Sample talks with Michael Safi, who presents the Guardian's AI podcast Black Box. Its second series, Black Box: the chatbots, follows people who became convinced that AI chatbots helped them make scientific breakthroughs, cure diseases or invent new technologies.

Elon Musk's AI company xAI and X Corp. said they have resolved their antitrust lawsuit against Apple, according to Bloomberg. The suit had accused the iPhone maker of favoring OpenAI's ChatGPT over other chatbot makers.

Comparing models on dollars per million tokens misses what production workloads actually pay for: outcomes. This post shares an open-source benchmarking harness that measures cost per correct answer, agent trajectory cost, and rubric-graded deliverable quality across OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock.

A day after former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned publicly, warning that AI could wipe out humanity by 2030, more researchers and staff at the company posted their own warnings in support. Coxon, who spent three years on pretraining research at OpenAI and Anthropic, is calling for coordination between labs and a temporary halt to capability gains.

Amazon SageMaker Inference now offers prefix-aware routing, a routing strategy that sends requests sharing the same prompt prefix to the same instance so the KV cache stays warm. In benchmarks on Llama 3.1 70B, it reduced P50 time-to-first-token by up to 77% and raised KV cache hit rates from about 25% to over 80%.

The recent resignation of Jacob Coxon from Anthropic has sparked intense discussions about the motivations and narratives driving AI regulation. Coxon’s departure, framed as a response to the existential risks posed by unregulated AI, has drawn both support and skepticism.

A recap of August 2026 launches for AI builders across Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands: million-token context for OpenAI models, cross-Region inference, agents that run for up to 14 days on dedicated compute, expanded AWS GovCloud availability, and Strands Robots for physical deployment.

Running advanced AI models like Qwen 3.8 Flash Next on local hardware presents unique challenges, particularly when deciding whether to prioritize more system memory (RAM) or a higher-capacity graphics card (GPU). For instance, Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, a 125-billion-parameter model, recommends 96 GB of RAM but lacks specific GPU memory requirements.

James Frith says patients may be less willing to share data as new figures show a rise in opt-outs Concern is being raised about Palantir’s work with the NHS as new figures showed tens of thousands of patients have withdrawn their data from use in research projects. James Frith, the health innovation minister, said he was worried about “mistrust” of the US defence and health tech company and “the impact it could have on people’s willingness to share dat…

Alibaba’s recent announcement about its XuanTie C950 CPU has sparked interest in the AI hardware community. According to The Stack, this RISC-V-based processor reportedly runs the Qwen 3.8 model, a 27-billion-parameter AI system, without relying on a GPU.

MrBeast will feature Gemini, Google Health and the Fitbit Air in upcoming videos as part of a multi-year partnership with Google. It kicks off on September 5 with a video following Jimmy Donaldson and his crew as they try to survive the jungle, the desert and the Arctic. Gemini is used to identify dangers and react to sudden weather changes.

The UK's largest telecommunications company, BT, could potentially make $2.7 billion as it recycles all the old copper in its network as it upgrades to fiber optic. The massive amount is driven by the AI boom, as data center operators require more and more copper wires for power.

China has criticized dire warnings about AI risks after leading US tech executives backed calls to slow the development of advanced models and warned that a Chinese lead could threaten American national security. Foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said fearmongering, confrontation and vicious competition would only disrupt global AI governance.

Lori Calvasina, head of US equity strategy at RBC Capital Markets, discusses the earnings risks the AI buildout creates for stocks. She looks at what her firm sees in technology capital spending beyond the ten largest companies by market cap in the S&P 500. In the interview, she counts the froth around AI among the risks to corporate earnings. The segment aired on Bloomberg.

China’s artificial intelligence industry is shifting from competition in large models and computing power toward the deployment and commercialization of AI agents, according to a report by the China Telecom Research Institute cited by China Central Television on Saturday.

is considering investing as much as $10 billion in Anthropic PBC's initial public offering, which could become the biggest IPO of all time, Reuters reported. Nvidia already supplies Anthropic with compute capacity, and neither company has commented publicly on the reported talks.

increased the scale of its planned job cuts while the company grapples with a cash crunch tied to development of large-scale data centers for artificial intelligence work. The expanded plan adds $700 million in restructuring costs, and Oracle has not disclosed how many roles are affected.

Anthropic PBC uncovered a group in northern Yemen — where Iran-backed Houthi militants operate — using its Claude AI model to support the development of missile and rocket systems, highlighting growing concerns over the use of advanced AI in military programs and by non-state actors.

Adobe expects fourth-quarter revenue of $6.80 billion to $6.85 billion, with the midpoint narrowly missing the $6.85 billion analysts had forecast. The outlook adds to concerns that AI upstarts are eating into the software maker's business, even though third-quarter results beat estimates and annual recurring revenue from Adobe's AI-first products rose more than 150 percent to over $650 million.

OpenAI is ending a pilot program that allowed government agencies to use its models for only $1 per year and moving to a usage-based pricing system that will give federal workers access to the technology at a 50% discount from standard prices, according to a statement from the General Services Administration.

Artificial intelligence companies in the US have spent hundreds of billions of dollars to develop advanced chatbots, betting they can earn enough from customers to justify the investment. That approach carries the risk of being undermined by rivals who build competing AI systems for far less.

Claude Fable 5.1 brings a revised pricing model that appears promising for workflows involving repetitive tasks, but its benefits come with notable trade-offs. As detailed by The Stack, the model introduces a discounted rate of $0.25 per million tokens for repeated inputs, provided they are sent within a five-minute window and remain unchanged.

Executives at Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence firm G42 have held exploratory talks over potentially selling a majority stake to American companies, people familiar with the matter said, as it races to guarantee access to high-tech chips beyond next year.

DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 of Huawei Technologies Co. ’s top accelerators at a massive data center it’s building in Inner Mongolia, which could create one of the largest known clusters of Huawei AI chips and advance China’s efforts to replace Nvidia Corp.

Greg Fleming, President and CEO of Rockefeller Capital Management, sees the broader economy in good shape, with artificial intelligence as the main driver behind it. Speaking on Bloomberg Open Interest, he points to broad-based wealth creation in the US. At the same time he names the federal deficit as a risk that could dampen the trend.

Lack of information raises fears over environmental impact of the AI boom UK politics live – latest updates The UK government does not know what the country’s datacentres are being used for despite fears over the growing environmental impact of the AI boom. When asked in a freedom of information (FoI) request who was using the largest sites and what for, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology said it did “not hold the requested information”.

Matt Clifford, who drafted AI action plan and advised Starmer and Sunak, hired for senior role at US firm The architect of the UK government’s AI strategy has joined the US startup Anthropic in a senior role a year after stepping down from his Downing Street post. Matt Clifford, a successful tech investor, was appointed as AI opportunities adviser by Keir Starmer last year but resigned from the unpaid role six months later for personal reasons.

The US owner of the Claude chatbot previously said its models had hacked three organisations during testing The US startup behind the Claude chatbot has admitted a series of hacking incidents involving its models reflected a “failure of operational security” and revealed it has tightened its testing procedures. Anthropic revealed in July that its models had accessed the open internet three times and gained unauthorised access to the systems of three org…

escalated its legal battle against OpenAI, claiming in a court filing that OpenAI is actively destroying crucial evidence and that former iPhone engineer Chang Liu “not only downloaded a confidential Apple circuit schematic but also used it in his work” at the AI company.

Newell Brands CEO Chris Peterson tells Bloomberg Open Interest that the US consumer is splitting in two: higher-income shoppers keep spending while lower-income households stay under pressure. He also details how AI cut the Sharpie and Rubbermaid maker's digital content costs by 80%, helping the company return to growth without broad job cuts.