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A Former OpenAI Researcher Just Quit Anthropic Saying Both Companies Could Kill Us All

An insider warning from someone who built the technology is rattling people who had never thought twice about AI safety. Here is what he actually said, and why it matters.

Sep 10 3 min read

Lawmakers demand answers after Anthropic researcher warns AI could end humanity by 2030

A warning from inside one of AI's biggest labs has reached the Senate floor, with politicians calling the risks of advanced AI 'catastrophic'.

Sep 10 3 min read

A Leading AI Safety Researcher Just Joined OpenAI's Board, and He Thinks Things Are Getting Dangerous

Paul Christiano helped invent the training method behind ChatGPT. Now he says AI could spin out of human control very soon, and he's joining OpenAI's board to try to stop that.

Massachusetts tells data centers: bring your own clean power or pay up

Governor Maura Healey has signed an order forcing large data centers to supply their own clean electricity, making Massachusetts the third state in three months to crack down on the industry's appetite for power.

Microsoft Signs a Legally Binding AI Privacy Deal With America's Second-Largest Teachers Union

Ten enforceable rules will govern how Microsoft's AI tools handle student data in schools. Districts can opt in from November, with no need to renegotiate existing contracts.

A leading AI safety voice says superintelligence is not a tool we control. It is an opponent.

Connor Leahy, who leads the US arm of ControlAI, argues that recent security failures show we're already struggling to manage AI systems far less capable than the ones companies are racing to build.

AI Could Kill Us All, Some Experts Warn. Should You Believe Them?

In 48 hours, leading researchers and politicians on both sides of the Atlantic compared advanced AI to nuclear weapons and Chornobyl. Here is what they actually said, and what it means.

AI Chatbots Are Starting to Watermark Their Text. Here's What That Actually Means

Anthropic and Google are quietly embedding invisible patterns into AI-written words. The technique is nearly undetectable, but critics argue it still changes what you read.

Suno launches v6 AI music models trained on licensed songs, as copyright lawsuits keep coming

The startup says its new model family uses only data licensed from record labels. That's a first for Suno, but legal trouble from Sony, Universal and others is far from over.

China Just Banned AI Boyfriends for Teenagers, and Adults Get a Reminder Every Two Hours

New rules from Beijing have already forced three of China's biggest tech companies to strip companion features from apps used by more than 500 million people. Here is what happened, and why it matters outside China.

Sep 9 5 min read

Pentagon's top AI official: US allies are falling behind and Washington is trying to help them catch up

The US military's chief AI officer says partners in NATO and the Five Eyes intelligence alliance lack the scale and experience to match America's pace, and the US is actively steering them away from its own early missteps.

UK data centres will create far fewer jobs than the tech industry claims, new research finds

An environmental thinktank puts the likely job total at 10,400, roughly a quarter of the 40,000-plus figure the industry lobby has been promoting.

AI in the Classroom: The Case for Teaching With the Machine, Not Against It

A new book argues that banning AI from schools is as misguided as banning calculators was in 1979. The Guardian AI's review of that history has a direct message for the choices schools face right now.