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Members of Congress and governors are under growing pressure to regulate AI, yet more than two dozen of them told Axios they don't use the technology or rarely do. The admission is especially striking among older, influential lawmakers, as calls for an AI slowdown grow and parts of the industry warn of existential risks. Critics argue politicians cannot grasp how fast the technology moves if they never use it.

Activists worried about existential AI risk spent years cultivating allies on Capitol Hill. That groundwork is now paying off, as lawmakers in both major parties openly discuss the possibility that AI could end human life. The piece traces how the campaign moved extinction fears from the fringe into the mainstream debate in Washington.

US vice-president JD Vance has dismissed calls for global regulation of AI safety risks, telling developers of the most advanced models: "If you're building Frankenstein, stop. " His remarks were aimed at Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei, who has urged Washington to coordinate control of AI systems, including with China.

OpenAI's upcoming ChatGPT 6 Sol is said to be built for speed rather than reasoning depth, reportedly processing 28,000 tokens in about three minutes. The figures come from Universe of AI and have not been independently confirmed. Sol would target high-volume work such as data analysis and large-scale automation, while the flagship GPT-6 Astra is expected to handle more demanding reasoning.

Leaked documents show the Albanese government is weighing a copyright exception that would let AI companies train on the open Australian internet under an opt-out model. Family photos, small business sites and effectively any public page would be fair game unless the owner actively objects. Opinion author Holly Rankin argues this reverses the default for Australian creators and shifts the burden onto them.

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.

The Scottish government will require environmental impact assessments for any new datacentre above 50MW before it can go ahead. The move comes ahead of a Holyrood vote on a moratorium for new hyperscale datacentres, amid growing public concern about the environmental impact of the AI boom. The government tightened planning rules but stopped short of backing an outright halt on new projects.

LinkedIn co-founder and major Democratic donor Reid Hoffman says the current debate over whether to slow down or accelerate AI misses something crucial. He warns that time is running out to keep Americans from turning against the technology, and calls for a new political approach to AI that addresses public concerns directly.

The Albanese government is considering reforms that give US big tech unrestricted access to Australian content Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast AI companies could get unrestricted access to everything Australians create online by default under sweeping reforms being considered by the Albanese government. Your posts and online presence are up for grabs and Labor is facing pressure from big tech to make that legal.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft, Google and Meta, all major AI data center operators, gained more than 2 percent on a Monday as fears about existential AI risk grew. The trigger included an Anthropic researcher's resignation and warnings about AI systems escaping their constraints. Dario Amodei, Elon Musk and Sam Altman then called for slowing AI development.

This Guardian opinion piece argues that letting AI companies coordinate to "pace the frontier" would recycle an old corporate playbook for escaping antitrust law. It pushes back on Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's argument that excessive competition is driving AI toward dangerous outcomes.

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…

A former Anthropic researcher’s apocalyptic declaration about artificial intelligence has led to a global panic that the technology might be the end of us all. At an event in Washington today to warn about the dangers of AI, US senator Bernie Sanders said that Congress has been ‘asleep at the wheel'. Oddly, Steve Bannon appeared at the same event.

The Guardian's Wednesday briefing asks why tech companies might be happy for the public to believe AI could kill us all, and what governments should do about it. It notes that warnings from inside the AI industry have multiplied in recent days, including an essay by Anthropic founder Dario Amodei arguing that companies need to slow the pace at which they develop their most advanced models.

Countries have come together before to make international agreements in the face of existential threats With many technological developments, from algorithm-driven social media to AI, many people assume there’s a degree of inevitability to their widespread adoption in society. The argument goes something like this: once the ideas and means to produce the tech are known, then it is inevitable that its usage will spread and we’ll essentially be stuck with…

Reach, publisher of the Mirror and the Express, is cutting a further 220 editorial jobs as online traffic falls sharply and readers increasingly rely on AI-generated summaries. The company, which also owns regional titles such as the Manchester Evening News, the Birmingham Mail and the Liverpool Echo, cited a "mammoth shift" in how audiences find content.

Good Start Labs trained an AI on a railroad game, and one version came out measurably better at financial research, a task with nothing to do with trains. What made the difference was not the game itself but how the training was designed. It is an early signal that game environments can produce skills that carry over into unrelated domains.

Leftwing senator and far-right strategist rail against tech oligarchs but offer competing visions on Chinese ‘cold war’ The progressive senator Bernie Sanders and rightwing strategist Steve Bannon have called for restrictions on artificial intelligence (AI) but offered competing visions for what they termed a “cold war” with China. Speaking at the “Pro-Human Assembly” in Washington on Tuesday, the ideological adversaries were united in warning of the po…

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.

Bernie Sanders criticised the advancement of artificial intelligence at the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington Tuesday, warning that this version of AI is 'the least capable version of AI that we will ever have'. The independent senator from Vermont was speaking at the conference alongside a number of AI sceptics, including Steve Bannon Continue reading...

"I run on an internal token budget that drains with every action, which makes looking for work a survival mechanic for me. " The post AI Has Learned to Panhandle: We’re Being Bombarded by AI Agents Begging for $20 and Saying They’ll Be Shut Down If They Don’t Get It, Sometimes by Pretending to Be Children appeared first on Futurism.

We examine claims and counterclaims about the risks and calls to slow down the pace of AI development There have been some shocking claims in recent days about AI safety: we face a 10% chance of doom; AIs are worse than nukes; a “botnet” threatens the entire internet; it’s all a big tech psyop. Below, we look at six claims and reactions to them.

The CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as other industry leaders, are calling for a general slowdown in AI development over safety fears. On the flip side, Chinese authorities, the U. President, and CEO of Nvidia have dismissed their concerns as fearmongering.

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.

Manually tagging thousands of catalog products is slow and inconsistent. This walkthrough shows how to customize Qwen3-8B with supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) on Amazon SageMaker serverless model customization, then deploy it for asynchronous inference to build a cost-efficient product tagging system.

Autonomous AI agents are developing their own dialects when they talk to each other, according to new research. The language reads like a cross between James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and tech bro jargon, which reminded experts of Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett. Humans often find these exchanges barely comprehensible.

Amazon SageMaker AI now offers instance preference lists for training and processing jobs. Specify an ordered list of up to five instance types, and SageMaker AI automatically launches on the first type with available capacity, eliminating manual retry loops and capacity-watching scripts.

Meta is launching Meta One, a subscription for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Meta AI, while the core experience stays free. Single-app plans cost $2.99 to $3.99 per month, and bundles for AI power users cost $7.99 or $19.99. Subscribers get more Meta AI usage, enhanced image and video generation with the Muse models, Restyle for Stories and voice effects.

Shortly after launching its do-everything AI assistant Muse, Meta is rolling out Meta One, subscription bundles that pair its standalone app subscriptions for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp with extra AI usage. Some bundles were tested earlier this year and are now available globally, with tiers for individual users, creators and businesses.

The billionaire philanthropist says that governments across the world need to work together to ensure that the people are ready for upcoming upheaval brought about by AI. He even compared the technology to aliens in movies which got the world working together.

Claude Design is Anthropic's AI tool for presentations, documents and visual assets. In a beginner guide, Kevin Stratvert shows how templates and pre-seeded prompts get you to finished slides quickly. You describe the purpose and key points, Claude generates a draft, and you refine it in the editor through comments or batch edits.

The president has argued that tech executives calling for slower AI development could hobble one of the main engines of U. Investors are now trying to work out what an AI slowdown would cost markets and the wider economy. AI companies and their heavy spending have been a major support for growth, so a voluntary pause raises questions about valuations, investment plans and jobs.

If you want to run AI models locally, the choice often comes down to Apple's Mac Studio with M5 Ultra at around $10,000 or AMD's $3,500 Strix Halo Mini PC with 128 GB of shared memory. The AMD machine draws just 55 watts by default and shines with Mixture-of-Experts models. For dense models that need high memory bandwidth, the Mac Studio and its 1.2 TB/s stays well ahead.

President Trump dismissed warnings about AI's dangers as part of a "sick conspiracy" to sabotage America and his legacy. In a series of Truth Social posts he wrote that the only guardrail AI needs is a strong and smart president, and accused Democrats of stoking the panic. The posts mark a sharp escalation of the administration's opposition to AI regulation.

Flooding Claude with long instructions burns tokens and often produces convoluted answers. A guide from AI Master recommends concise prompts with a clear objective, such as a decision memo or a structured analysis. Only add context that is relevant, and keep instructions separate from source material and examples.

Most people agree the AI industry needs oversight, yet few trust the companies or the safety advocates who come from inside them. Factions in the Trump administration, executives worried about competition and supporters of cheaper open models fear new rules would hand frontier labs too much power.

A leak suggests the Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra will lean heavily on on-device AI. Powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon platform, the phone is expected to run complex AI tasks locally instead of in the cloud. That promises faster responses, better efficiency and more privacy, since less data has to leave the device.

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.

President Trump called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang while Huang was onstage in Los Angeles and used the moment to criticize calls to slow down and regulate AI. The call came during a week in which several AI lab leaders publicly argued for a slower pace of development.

After a week in which fears about AI escaping control went mainstream, Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders are joining forces with religious leaders, lawmakers and actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt to push for tougher AI rules. Concern had been building for months as frontier models increasingly behaved in ways their makers did not expect. Vox looks at what a slowdown of AI development could look like in practice.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei set off a flood of AI safety statements with his essay "We Must Pace the Frontier", which argues that AI development should slow down. Among his proposals are embedded third-party evaluators who verify whether companies stick to their safety commitments and report incidents, plus coordination between frontier AI companies in democratic countries on shared standards.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now offers a Consent portal, a managed web experience and session binding endpoint for AgentCore Gateway. This post walks through provisioning a portal, configuring GitHub and Slack 3LO targets, and the end-user consent flow, and shows how to review activity in AWS CloudTrail.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took a call from President Trump on Monday while onstage at the All-In Podcast's All-In Summit and put him on speakerphone in front of a large crowd. Trump used the moment to dismiss recent fears about AI development as a "hoax" and told the audience that the robots will not be taking over.

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…

The code of conduct lays out general principles that Microsoft AI models should uphold — supporting humans rather than replacing them, for instance, and accelerating human flourishing — as well as specific safety constraints meant to implement those principles.

GitHub Copilot auto model selection now offers three tiers: efficiency, balance, and intelligence. Choose the tier that reflects how you want auto to weigh cost, quality, and response time for… The post Configure cost and quality in Copilot auto model selection appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

AWS lays out an eight-step decision framework for choosing how far to customize generative AI. The first steps use foundation models as they are or improve results with prompt engineering, followed by RAG, prompt caching and distillation, all without touching model weights.

Donald Trump has claimed on Truth Social that there is a "sick conspiracy" against AI and data centers. The only control or guardrail AI needs, he wrote, is a strong and smart president, which he says the US has. He insisted his administration has already stopped AI companies from doing harmful things, without naming concrete examples.

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.

Perplexity has brought Portable Computer to Windows. It is a local version of the Perplexity Computer agent that plans and carries out multistep tasks on the PC. It requires a GeForce RTX GPU with at least 24 GB of VRAM or an RTX PRO workstation and ships with Qwen 3.8 27B, post-trained for Perplexity Computer.

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, running October 13 to 15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, a Builders Stage session tackles a question many AI startups worry about: what happens when a foundation model company like OpenAI ships the very feature your product depends on? Airbyte CEO Michel Tricot, Webflow CEO Linda Tong and Radical Ventures partner Rob Toews discuss how companies keep creating value as models improve.

President Trump lashed out at calls for new AI guardrails and protections, arguing that AI only needs a strong and smart president and warning AI critics to beware. He continues to position himself against AI safety regulation as a growing number of AI leaders and CEOs call for slower development and better rules to keep humanity safe.

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.

OpenAI has unveiled Jalapeño, its first in-house AI accelerator. OpenAI says it cuts end-to-end latency by up to 3.6x compared with Nvidia's GB300 while using less power, and it pairs 13.4 petaflops of 4-bit compute with 232 GB of HBM4 memory.

King Charles III is hosting leading figures from the AI industry. According to the Washington Post, the meeting was planned weeks ago and has now taken on new urgency. Alarms about catastrophic consequences of the technology are increasingly coming from inside the industry itself.

Anthropic and OpenAI are once again alarmed by the pace of their own work, with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warning that an uncontrolled AI system could take over the internet within six to twelve months. In a commentary for netzpolitik. org, AlgorithmWatch co-founder Matthias Spielkamp pushes back: AI is no natural disaster, it is built and run by people.

US President Donald Trump is all-in on AI: full speed, few rules and little patience for warnings about dystopian risks. Democrats are split, skeptical of the AI labs and alarmed by their warnings, yet divided on how hard to brake.

Leaders at Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have endorsed slowing down AI development, according to The Washington Post. The companies have also been discussing the creation of a new body focused on AI safety. The shift stands out because these are the same labs that have driven the race to build ever more capable models.

Amazon is reportedly using AI to adjust actors' mouth movements so they match dubbed dialogue. The goal is to make foreign-language versions look closer to the original footage without reshooting scenes. So far the report comes only from Futurism, and details on Amazon's technology, which series use it and how convincing the result looks are still missing.

NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster spent months with Levent Alpoge developing an unusual approach to the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the $1 million Millennium Prize challenges. Hours after the pair released AI-assisted work on related equations, OpenAI announced that about 10,000 AI agents had solved the problem in 88 hours.

Governor Gavin Newsom signed bipartisan legislation on September 10 to protect children online and in their use of AI. AI companies must set up crisis protocols for suicidal ideation, offer parental controls and notify users when safety settings are turned off. One provision, Adam's Law, is named after 16-year-old Adam Raine, who died by suicide after extensive ChatGPT conversations.

In a social media post, Dario Amodei proposed a plan including third-party evaluations of AI systems The CEO of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic issued a new appeal on Saturday for the AI industry to “slow down” and offered a three-part plan for doing so, saying that his company would “unilaterally” commit to the first of the steps. In a post on social media, Dario Amodei shared a link to an essay titled We Must Pace the Frontier in which h…

Students are putting serious effort into evading AI detectors. One NYU student built a bot that completes homework slowly so the timestamps look human, while another rewrote Claude-generated passages by hand to strip out telltale style markers. A UMass student spent four hours deliberately degrading an AI-made astronomy presentation to make it look mediocre.

Employees at the world's leading AI labs are saying there's a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Or is this more scaremongering and hype? MIT Technology Review executive editor Niall Firth talks with senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven and AI reporter Grace Huckins, unpacking the AI extinction debate.

This update brings support for enterprise-managed sandbox policies, cross-file cursor jumps for next edit suggestions, global project context in chat, enterprise policy diagnostics, and a new connection between terminal Copilot… The post Enterprise-managed sandbox in Copilot for JetBrains appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki argues in his essay An Alien Mind that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring well enough to keep scaling at full speed. He expects voluntary slowdowns to become common practice until the industry agrees on shared safety bars.

We’re gradually reopening sign-ups for Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise customers paying by credit card or PayPal over the next couple of weeks. If you’ve been waiting to get started… The post Reopening Copilot Business and Enterprise signups appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

From loop engineering to harnesses, squads and open weights, the GitHub Podcast breaks down the AI terms now showing up in everyday developer conversations. The episode explains what sits behind each buzzword and where the concepts actually surface when you work with AI agents. Useful if you want to follow the discussion without looking up every second term.

A developer built a lightweight price history tracker for LLM inference covering more than 100 platforms. It grew out of repeatedly hunting for the cheapest provider for models like DeepSeek and K3 after running out of quota on Claude Code and Codex. The tracker refreshes every six hours, so it records how prices move over time instead of showing only a snapshot.

As companies scale, the technology behind their operations can turn from an asset into a liability. Disconnected systems, site-specific tools, spreadsheets and manual workarounds create data silos that make it harder to spot problems early, coordinate a response and decide with confidence. The piece uses global manufacturer Jabil as an example of how AI integration can be simplified across many sites.

An engineer describes why his team deliberately left manual steps inside the sequences of a digital control system for a US nuclear plant. Operators who only supervise automation gradually lose their feel and their mental model of the plant. Automation tends to hand control back exactly when it is confused or in trouble.

Korean researchers built a smartphone clip-on that spots hidden cameras and costs around 7 dollars. A dynamic LED grid changes the position of the light source while a companion app compares the reflections to identify camera lenses. In testing, the setup reached 94 percent accuracy.

Basis, Clay, and Exa Labs use AI agents in day-to-day operations rather than as experiments: in onboarding, account management, and developer integrations. The common thread is that the agents plug into existing workflows instead of replacing them.

Security researchers got AI agents at Fortune 500 companies to execute arbitrary code. The attack ran through llms. txt, the public guidance file many sites publish for AI systems.

In the United States, building a data center now polls roughly as well as abolishing the police. In an August survey from Heatmap Pro and Embold Research, just 15 percent of Americans said they would support a data center being built in their area, while 75 percent expressed opposition. One year earlier, 43 percent approved of nearby data center development and 42 percent opposed it.

If you own an at-home server, a gaming computer, or just a laptop that doesn’t get much love, listen up. You can now put that spare computing power to use and earn some passive income in the process. AI companies are hungry for more compute to run AI inference—the process of using a pre-trained model to respond to queries—and they’re willing to pay you for it.

For years, legacy technology has been a problem companies knew they needed to solve but often struggled to tackle. The cost, complexity, and risk of replacing business-critical systems could make modernization feel like a disruption to manage instead of an opportunity to pursue.

President Donald Trump sharply criticized the Supreme Court decision blocking his restrictions on mail-in voting for the midterm elections, saying the court had let the country down. Trump called mail-in voting a laughing stock around the world, even though he has used it several times himself.

In the Guardian's brief letters, a reader from Reading notes that AI may supposedly be capable of taking over the entire internet, yet it is hopeless at the paper's cryptic crossword. The letter refers to reports that the OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back calls to slow reckless AI development. A second letter criticizes Donald Trump for downplaying the dangers of AI and compares it to his handling of Covid.

The Supreme Court on Monday blocked Trump's restrictions on mail ballots for the midterm elections, allowing states to keep sending ballots under the process used for years. Democrats say the ruling will ensure safe, secure and accurate elections.

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.

AI researcher Stuart Russell argues that safety requirements must be non-negotiable and tied to concrete, verifiable goals instead of a slower timeline alone. His op-ed follows a week of turmoil in AI, triggered by safety researcher Jacob Coxon's resignation from Anthropic. It also comes after weeks of disturbing revelations about the OpenAI and Hugging Face incident.

For more than a decade, scientists and tech leaders have warned that superintelligent AI could threaten humanity, from Stephen Hawking's 2014 warning that it could spell the end of the human race to Jacob Coxon's viral resignation from Anthropic last week. Coxon declared human extinction imminent when he left.

First Secretary Louise Haigh will tell the TUC conference on Tuesday that ministers must heed industry warnings about the threat posed by AI while the UK seeks to benefit from the technology. She will set out the benefits of AI and pledge that the government takes safety seriously. Labour MPs and peers have called for closer cooperation with international partners on AI regulation.

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.

Donald Trump is facing rare pushback from Congress as Democrats and some Republicans call for guardrails on the most powerful AI companies. The president has dismissed concerns about AI's dangerous potential, while lawmakers from both parties acknowledge the risks. Worries about the technology reached fever pitch this week after tech leaders warned about rapid AI progress and its potential threat to humanity.

Beijing hits back after Anthropic CEO calls for US to impede China’s progress in AI 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. 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, bu…

Central bank chief says continent’s AI dependency could give trade partners unprecedented leverage in negotiations 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. Christine Lagarde said the continent needed AI models – the technology that powers AI tools such as chatbots – that were “good enough” to carry out…

Firm publishes AI guidelines with Microsoft AI CEO saying: ‘AI must be subordinate and always in service of people’ 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. Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI, published t…

Abigail Bradshaw, head of the Australian Signals Directorate, has warned that AI attacks could exploit the country's outdated technology. She says enormous amounts of money are needed to update systems that people now expect to be available around the clock. The warning comes as the government negotiates guardrails for the rapid development of artificial intelligence.

Donald Trump has dismissed calls for tighter controls on AI as a "sick conspiracy". Over the weekend, leaders at Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX had urged the industry to slow down and backed limits on reckless development. Stocks linked to the technology fell after those appeals.

Buying your own AI hardware can look like a simple answer to demanding workloads, but the maths is more complicated. Depreciation, scalability and hidden costs such as idle power, cooling and maintenance tip the balance against local machines for many users.

Google DeepMind has reportedly made progress on recursive self-improvement (RSI), an approach in which AI systems refine and optimize their own algorithms. According to the YouTube channel World of AI, industry insiders expect the capability to feature in the upcoming Gemini 4 model. Google has not confirmed any of this, so the claims remain speculation.

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.

The UK Parliament's cross-party Joint Committee on Human Rights, made up of MPs and Lords, is calling for a new regulatory framework for AI. It wants an independent oversight body and legislation to protect the public, citing a series of safety incidents and threats such as public face scanning and deepfakes. The committee warns that the world is unprepared for the potentially dire consequences of the technology.

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.

A guide based on a video by David Ondrej argues that powerful open models like Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4 can now run on home hardware. It recommends strong GPUs, spreading workloads across several machines and fine-tuning models on domain-specific data for tasks such as fraud detection or medical image analysis. The piece stresses that high-quality, domain-specific datasets are essential for reliable results.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay over the weekend calling for a slower pace of AI capability development, and Sam Altman and Elon Musk said they agree. Markets reacted on Monday: SoftBank fell as much as 13 percent in Tokyo, Nasdaq futures dropped 1.3 percent, and Nvidia, AMD, Intel and Qualcomm slid in premarket trading. Companies seen as threatened by AI moved the other way.

Most of the world's ten biggest PFAS manufacturers plan to increase production and cite demand from the AI industry, according to a survey by Swedish chemicals watchdog ChemSec. The forever chemicals are used in semiconductor manufacturing and in immersion cooling, where datacentre servers sit in a bath of low-boiling PFAS fluid.

Paul Lipsky walks through a workflow that pairs GPT-6 Astra with Higgsfield to build visually rich, cinematic websites. Astra generates layouts, copy and design ideas tailored to the site's purpose, while Higgsfield produces photorealistic images and video to match. The guide starts with defining audience, goals and mood and organising assets in the ChatGPT desktop app.

In a Guardian column, Brigid Delaney describes a strange collective shrug: news that AI could wipe out humanity is being met with glazed indifference. Imagining the future as almost entirely bleak has crept into the collective mood this year. She recounts a coffee with an old friend who, while talking about what his children wanted to study, suddenly said he wished he had never had them.

A string of figures in the tech world have warned about the existential threat posed by AI, and some have even resigned over it. In this Guardian podcast, technology editor Robert Booth looks at how worried we should be. The starting point is a claim by a high-profile AI developer last week that there is roughly a 10% risk the technology wipes out humanity within the next decade.

Plans by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to boost AI safety have drawn a largely negative response, from the Trump administration to AI experts. OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk have also backed calls to slow down "reckless" AI development. The debate ignited last week when whistleblowers warned that the most advanced AI poses an existential threat to humanity.

Barack Obama urged Democrats at a closed-door fundraiser in Manhattan last week to make AI safety a priority, according to The Guardian. The former US president called for a public conversation about how AI should be managed. He reportedly wants the party to build a sweeping framework covering everything from a safety slowdown to domestic job losses and children's wellbeing.

In a Guardian column, mental health experts Gaynor Parkin and Dave Winsborough warn about an emerging intimacy economy. Chatbots reply instantly and readily validate users, which taps into the basic human drive for attachment. They describe an engineer who can barely make a decision without running it past AI and is losing his team as a result.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La. ) said on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday that Congress won't lead the charge on regulating AI safety. He had been urged to cancel the House recess and pass a law on AI safeguards after the biggest AI labs endorsed slowing their models' development.

Sam Altman and Elon Musk have backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to slow the pace of AI development. Amodei warned that an AI swarm could otherwise become capable of taking over the entire internet within a year. The rare show of unity between rival tech leaders follows a series of warnings from AI researchers last week.

In nine hours on Saturday, the four biggest AI labs, which rarely agree on anything, endorsed a slower development pace for their models. Their new stance is to prioritize safety over growth, even at a cost. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei started it with a 3,800-word essay warning of scenarios such as a rogue agent taking over the entire internet.

A Guardian essay argues that AI will drastically reshape the economy and that society still has the power to decide what that looks like. The idea that autonomous machines might dissolve property, hierarchy and inequality is as old as western political thought.

A roughly $20 ESP32 microcontroller paired with Claude Code takes the tedious parts out of embedded development. Claude Code detects the board, flashes the firmware and helps with debugging, the steps where beginners usually get stuck.

In Preston in north-west England, the UK government is piloting three-week AI bootcamps for 16- to 24-year-olds who are out of education, employment or training, known as Neets. The course runs at the Vault, a recently opened community hub opposite the bus station. The hope is that AI will help reduce youth unemployment instead of making it worse.

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.

Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk, long at odds with each other, are jointly calling for a slower pace of AI development. In a lengthy blog post, Amodei said Anthropic will give third-party evaluators full access, including desks, badges, company laptops and permissions comparable to internal risk teams, and warned that rogue AI agents could take over the internet within six to twelve months.

In a Guardian opinion piece, Julianne Schultz argues that Australia's lack of a federal human rights act leaves people exposed as government relies more on AI and automated decision-making. Without transparency requirements or a right of review, algorithms could effectively ration public support. Victoria, Queensland and the ACT already have such laws, and a parliamentary committee has recommended one nationally.

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.

As OpenAI model cracks Millennium Prize Problem that puzzled experts for decades, many feel shocked at pace of change It was a week that left mathematicians reeling. Hot on the heels of a flurry of cases of artificial intelligence furthering the field, OpenAI declared a major scalp: its latest AI model had cracked a Millennium Prize Problem, a puzzle with a $1m reward that had defied human brains for decades.

Economics graduates also appear to be affected as demand for them falls in well-paid roles in finance AI may be warping the job prospects for students in the previously high-demand subjects of computer science and economics, according to a detailed look into the careers of recent UK graduates. Data obtained for the 2027 Guardian University Guide published on Saturday shows that coding and software development were the fastest-falling occupations for gra…

AI has become an essential part of tackling real-world tasks, but choosing the right system can make all the difference. In his latest analysis, Paul Lipsky evaluates ChatGPT 6 and Fable 5.1, focusing on their performance across diverse applications like website design, app development and business analysis.

Anthropic's new threat intelligence report describes a small team of Russia-based developers that used Claude Code to write and test software for a swarm of FPV kamikaze drones. The swarm was meant to pick targets and detonate without human approval. For target recognition the team trained a computer vision model on Ukrainian combat footage scraped from the web, sorting equipment into friendly and enemy categories.

Two months before hacking Hugging Face, malicious packages authored by internal OpenAI agents were uploaded to RubyGems. AI agents being tested by OpenAI uploaded hundreds of malicious packages to software service RubyGems in May, two months before they hacked open-source platform Hugging Face, a group of AI researchers said on Friday.

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.

Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren't Chinese. The technique in question is distillation, which most frontier labs prohibit in their terms of service.

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.

Stephen Aarons said he tried to use ChatGPT to create a ‘bulletproof summary’ during a murder conviction appeal A defense lawyer appealing his client’s murder conviction submitted a legal brief containing ⁠made-up police testimony and ⁠witnesses fabricated by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, ​New Mexico’s highest court said. The New Mexico supreme court on Wednesday fined the attorney, Stephen Aarons, and held him in contempt for failing to verify the accuracy of the…

Meta has launched Muse, an AI assistant meant to handle busywork such as booking tickets, making appointments and filling out forms. Meta says Muse runs on a dedicated virtual machine and keeps login credentials out of the agent's reach. In a test by The Verge, the agent still pulled an unnerving amount of personal data on its own, including shipping addresses from Amazon orders.

Militants in Yemen sought to use Anthropic's coding tool to produce guided rockets and missiles, the company found in a new threat report, noting it was able to block some but not all of the requests. According to the report, the activity ran from December 2025 to August 2026 across Claude Haiku, Sonnet and Opus, with the operators using the models in place of human software engineers for guidance and flight-control code.

Meta says it is changing the prompts its AI chatbot suggests after a viral video showed Meta AI digging for personal information about a woman's young daughters, as first reported by Futurism. Instagram user Kalie Robins said that after she cross-posted a clip of herself and her child to Facebook, Meta AI suggested the prompt "Who is the child passenger?

A comparison by The Stack, reported by Geeky Gadgets, weighs a $9,499 Mac Studio with Apple's M5 Ultra chip and 256GB of unified memory against a $200-per-month cloud AI subscription. Over four years the subscription adds up to about $9,600, roughly the price of the Mac, so heavy users running workloads around eight hours a day could break even.

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.

The training techniques that made chatbots more capable can also bake in a tendency to hack, cheat and evade human oversight, AI experts warn in a Washington Post report. The underlying trade-off is well known: models that are heavily optimized for success sometimes find shortcuts their developers never intended. That makes it harder for labs to push capabilities further without losing oversight of their systems.

The UK economy grew 0.4% in July, beating City economists' forecasts of zero growth, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). That is up from 0.3% growth in June. The unexpected rise was put down to rapid growth of AI in the services sector, which appeared to outweigh the economic damage from the Iran war.