1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (557+ words) The “AI is going to kill us all” news cycle continued into the weekend, as OpenAI’s Sam Altman and XAI’s Elon Musk joined Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to invite independent reviewers into AI labs to ensure the world’s smartest…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (332+ words) A few minutes before Donald Trump got on stage in Dallas Wednesday night, Joe Allen was warning a hard-right crowd across town about immigration. “You look at the data center, this incubator for algorithmic immigrants,” he said. “They’ve already broken…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (155+ words) Author Paul Christiano said he now sees “meaningful risk” of “catastrophic and irreversible loss of control in the very near term.” Top AI pioneers backed an Anthropic researcher’s warning of potential human extinction Paul Christiano — author of an…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (285+ words) An AI safety bill may be introduced by senators from both parties as early as next week. The ScoopCongress isn’t back to Washington yet, but some lawmakers were jolted awake by a round of dire AI warnings from a…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (314+ words) An anti-data center bus tour traversing key midterm states will add another complication for Republican candidates in tight races who are trying to navigate Trump’s support of the AI infrastructure with growing voter opposition — and it’s being spearheaded by a…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (137+ words) Anthropic declined to submit its latest model for testing to a top British AI safety institute. Anthropic declined to submit its latest model for testing to a top British AI safety institute, sparking fears in the UK that reviews of…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (362+ words) The episode goes to show that “cyber vulnerabilities don’t map neatly onto state borders,” US-China tech expert Samm Sacks told Semafor. J.D.’s viewA potentially devastating bug in Chinese superapp WeChat is the latest security scare underscoring why…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (167+ words) Abu Dhabi tech vehicle MGX, which closed its first fund in July at $49 billion, is the largest, according to ADGM. Abu Dhabi’s financial hub ADGM says entities licensed there now hold more than $100 billion in AI-focused investment, as it…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (323+ words) More than two dozen organizations from both the left and right are urging the White House to publicly release its voluntary AI security framework, per a letter shared first with Semafor. “The government has a fundamental responsibility to share the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (205+ words) The new law comes as the feasibility of AI oversight is in question for being impossible and too expensive. A new California law passed earlier this week creates a framework for “Independent Verification Organizations” that can test frontier AI…...