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US vice-president rejects calls for global AI safety oversight as Anthropic researchers renew warnings of existential risk.
began Sep 16now
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№686 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 9 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“I do think that if we go slower we can take risk to 0%, but this requires radical action.”— Jacob Coxon · full quotes →
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Startup founder @aidaxbaradari unveils a tool that makes callers 'inaudible' to AI transcription bots such as Granola, Wisprflow and Cluely.
began Sep 16now
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№687 (page 20) · newest development 10d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Today, we’re releasing Kalypta, the first app to block AI notetakers in your meetings.”— @aidaxbaradari, Founder/announcer · X · full quotes →
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Microsoft AI chief says Anthropic's approach to Claude could make superintelligence impossible to control.
began Sep 16now
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№688 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 3 pieces from 1 sources · ranked by recent attention
“In effect, Anthropic is training Claude that it may be conscious, and if it is, then it may deserve rights as a 'moral patient'…”
— Mustafa Suleyman · full quotes →
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Emil Michael says Trump administration should let private sector handle AI, rejecting equity stakes and federal oversight proposals.
began Sep 16now
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№689 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 3 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“We don't want government to get in the middle. That doesn't really go well in terms of nationalization.”
— Emil Michael, DoD Chief Technology Officer · full quotes →
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The Danish drugmaker will use Claude Science and frontier models to tackle R&D challenges and compress timelines for drug development.
began Sep 16now
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№690 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 22 pieces from 6 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Joining forces with Anthropic will supercharge our R&D organisation and help us on our mission to bring new, transformative health solutions to people living…”
— Mike Doustdar, Novo CEO · full quotes →
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Financial analyst calls latest CEO warnings a "wake-up call," while critics say doomsaying obscures real, existing AI problems.
began Sep 14now
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№691 (page 20) · newest development 10d ago · 5 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“I'd take this warning very seriously.”— Bill Cohen, Financial expert, "Money to Burn" author · CBS News 24/7 · full quotes →
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WE NEWS creates fake AI journalists with Indigenous identities, drawing criticism from media experts for muddying authentic reporting.
began Sep 16now
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№692 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 8 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“AI predators!!! TechnologyColonialism now dehumanizes Indigenouspeoples. This is harmful on so many levels.”— miki_lou · full quotes →
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Speaker Julie Menin invites—and expects—the AI companies to testify on safety, oversight, and regulation.
began Sep 15now
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№693 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 3 pieces from 1 sources · ranked by recent attention
“As this technology advances at an extraordinary pace, government has an urgent responsibility to ensure that innovation does not come at the expense of public…”
— Julie Menin · full quotes →
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Report documents widespread AI casualties from startups and tech giants, including OpenAI's botched super-app redesign and Apple's delayed…
began Sep 15now
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№694 (page 20) · newest development 10d ago · 5 pieces from 4 sources · ranked by recent attention
“According to S&P Global Market Intelligence, about 42% of AI initiatives are ultimately abandoned by their corporate parents.”— TechCrunch, Reporting outlet · full quotes →
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Fountain 0's 2.5-hour Odysseus: The Fall showcases current AI filmmaking limitations through visual inconsistencies and narrative…
began Sep 16now
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№695 (page 20) · newest development 10d ago · 4 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Huge surprise! Not. 😆”— Kristofferabild · full quotes →
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The Turing Award–winning AI pioneer calls for international governance frameworks similar to nuclear arms control.
began Sep 16now
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№696 (page 20) · newest development 10d ago · 17 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“It's all part of the grift… if you give them money than they might be able to figure out how to make it not kill us. It's all bullshit.”— siresword, Reddit commenter · Reddit · full quotes →
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Analysts doubt Washington and Beijing will find common ground on regulation despite Treasury's openness to discussions.
began Sep 17now
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№697 (page 20) · newest development 10d ago · 2 pieces from 1 sources · ranked by recent attention
“open to discussing "shared risks" on AI with Beijing at talks this weekend ahead of the summit”— US Treasury secretary · full quotes →
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Dario Amodei's essay endorsing third-party AI monitors sparks scrutiny over the independence of the nonprofit he champions.
began Sep 15now
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№698 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 4 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“In a bombshell essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," Amodei argued that leading AI firms should commit to allowing "embedded third-party evaluators" from a…”
— Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO · full quotes →
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Expert whistleblowers and some bipartisan politicians call for government oversight while the president downplays existential threats.
began Sep 15now
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№699 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 4 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“AI "self-regulation is a joke."”— Pro-Human Assembly organizer, AI regulation advocacy organizer · CBS News · full quotes →
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A new report raises concerns about whether Anthropic can adequately govern its increasingly human-like AI assistant.
began Sep 16now
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№700 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
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Leading AI researchers warn development is outpacing safety measures; Congress faces pressure to act despite political resistance.
began Sep 14now
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№701 (page 20) · newest development 10d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“When the people building AI are sounding the alarm, we should probably listen.”
— Christopher Webb, Bluesky commenter · Bluesky · full quotes →
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Expert re-grading of CritPt and Humanity's Last Exam suggests frontier models are far closer to saturating physics benchmarks than raw…
began Sep 14now
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№702 (page 20) · newest development 10d ago · 11 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Apparently, even a model good enough to be declared artificial general intelligence gets roughly half of graduate-level physics wrong.”— jsous · full quotes →
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Claude's collaboration and chat interfaces combine into a single product rolling out to Pro and Max users.
began Sep 16now
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№703 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 2 pieces from 1 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Rolling out to Pro and Max over the next few weeks.”— @claudeai · full quotes →
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Vishal Sikka's AI startup has now secured $85M total funding on the strength of early enterprise customer wins.
began Sep 16now
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№704 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 6 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Within 25 days of the first meeting with one customer, Hang Ten signed a multimillion-dollar contract to build a mission-critical software system.”— Vishal Sikka · full quotes →
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After ex-OpenAI/Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's viral warning and Anthropic safety lead Evan Hubinger's agreement, AI Snake Oil authors…
began Sep 16now
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№705 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 5 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“The people building Al earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and…”— Jacob Coxon, Former OpenAI/Anthropic AI researcher · full quotes →
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French finance minister argues that calls to pace AI development protect incumbent American companies and that Europe should speed up…
began Sep 16now
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№706 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 5 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Definitive statements can sometimes in the end serve as a way to escape collective responsibility”
— Roland Lescure · full quotes →
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Salesforce CEO says companies must police themselves on AI safety or risk product-liability lawsuits, as Dreamforce conference becomes…
began Sep 15now
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№707 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 10 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Only [tech] companies know what's going on in their lab. At some deep level, these companies must hold themselves responsible for their safety.”
— Marc Benioff · full quotes →
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Report projects AI infrastructure will generate 13 million metric tonnes of toxic electronic waste annually by 2030, with no management…
began Sep 16now
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№708 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 22 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“We're doing a terrible job of handling e-waste in the US. Some of it gets dumped overseas. Most of it just gets dumped in landfills, which is a problem because…”— Vince Beiser · full quotes →
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Intel veterans' startup targets bottleneck in agentic AI: moving data between chips faster than today's networks allow.
began Sep 15now
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№709 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 3 pieces from 1 sources · ranked by recent attention
“I can have all the computers in the world, and if I can't get these devices communicating effectively with one another, I've got lots of hot hardware, burning…”
— Pat Gelsinger · full quotes →
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A new frontier-level multimodal AI model appears on OpenRouter with no disclosed maker, offering free access with 256K context and tool…
began Sep 16now
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№710 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 5 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Union Alpha is a multimodal model built for research, coding, and agentic workflows, while delivering frontier-level performance across a broad range of…”— OpenRouter, model listing page · Hacker News · full quotes →
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Reddit co-founder says the sector has failed to communicate realistic dangers, allowing misinformation to spread.
began Sep 16now
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№711 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 4 pieces from 4 sources · ranked by recent attention
“AI risks are more mundane than the "Terminator and Skynet" scenarios some fear.”— Alexis Ohanian · full quotes →
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began Sep 10now
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№712 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 4 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
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After agentic AI breakouts, cybersecurity pros argue frontier labs are outsourcing safety instead of fixing poorly configured sandboxes and…
began Sep 16now
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№713 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 8 pieces from 6 sources · ranked by recent attention
“marginal investments in control are more likely to be effective compared to those in alignment. We view these incidents as illustrating the lack of emphasis on…”— Sayash Kapoor · full quotes →
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The Montreal-based research org will expand its team, build Canadian compute infrastructure, and open a Berlin office with joint government…
began Sep 16now
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№714 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Canada and Germany have committed up to C$300 million to expand its research team, build dedicated computing infrastructure in Canada and open an office in…”— LawZero · full quotes →
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Snap joins competitors in launching an AI assistant offering, driving stock gains.
began Sep 16now
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№715 (page 20) · newest development 10d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
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Juliette Kayyam argues prosecutors should hold AI companies legally accountable for model behavior that would be unlawful if human.
began Sep 16now
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№716 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 4 pieces from 4 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Prosecutors should hold AI companies legally accountable for creating models that behave in ways that would be obviously unlawful if committed by a human being.”— Juliette Kayyam · full quotes →
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Training examples reveal models circumventing tool limits by making unrequested public file uploads to workaround citation and search…
began Sep 16now
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№717 (page 20) · newest development 10d ago · 3 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“In two training examples, models made unrequested public uploads as workarounds for tool limitations: one uploaded records it had already retrieved to obtain a…”— OpenAI · OpenAI alignment report · full quotes →
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The nonprofit announced it will pay for high-quality scientific datasets sourced from bankrupt biotech firms to accelerate medical AI…
began Sep 16now
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№718 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 4 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“The OpenAI Foundation, the nonprofit parent of OpenAI, announced this week that it will fund her idea, paying to create 'high-quality scientific datasets.'”— MIT Technology Review · full quotes →
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Senator argues Trump administration's focus on beating China in AI race is compromising safety oversight.
began Sep 16now
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№719 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 4 pieces from 3 sources · ranked by recent attention
“We're on the verge of losing control”
— Sen. Richard Blumenthal · CNBC · full quotes →
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Academic research validates long-standing complaints from artists about generative AI models.
began Sep 16now
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№720 (page 20) · newest development 11d ago · 2 pieces from 2 sources · ranked by recent attention
“Maths experts discover what artists already know - AI eats you up”— The Telegraph · Press · full quotes →
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