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OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind Have Been Quietly Talking About AI Safety for Weeks
The three biggest names in AI are coordinating behind closed doors on safety standards, and now one of them has confirmed it publicly.
AI bosses are calling for a slowdown. Nobody knows what that means.
Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk all said this week that AI development should slow down. The problem: no one has explained how, and the race with China makes any pause politically toxic.
A one-to-two-year AI slowdown is not a safety plan
Anthropic's 'pacing the frontier' proposal has drawn high-profile backing, but critics say pausing for a year or two still leaves humanity without a real answer to the question nobody has solved: how do you keep an advanced AI system under control?
The US Has No Real Plan to Regulate AI, and That Should Worry You
Tech CEOs and their own researchers are sounding the alarm on AI risks. The federal government's answer, so far, is to do nothing.
AI CEOs Have Been Warning About AI Dangers for Years. Here Is What They Actually Did.
From Elon Musk's 2017 governors speech to last week's chorus of caution, the tech industry's most powerful voices have repeatedly called for AI regulation, while building the very systems they say scare them.
AI could wipe out humanity, some researchers warn. How seriously should we take that?
A wave of alarming claims from AI insiders has pushed calls for slowing down development into the mainstream. Here is what the researchers are actually saying, what the tech companies want, and where governments stand.
Andrew Garfield plays Sam Altman in first teaser for AI biopic 'Artificial'
After Amazon dropped the film, Neon will release Luca Guadagnino's OpenAI biopic in US cinemas on Christmas Day, with a New York Film Festival premiere in October.
The World's Top AI Bosses Are in One Room. Here's What They're Saying.
Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic and more descended on Chapel Hill for the G20 Innovation Ministerial. Elon Musk predicts AI grows the global economy by a third. David Sacks says data centres can actually cut your electricity bill.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Launch Turns Into a Waiting Room for Paying Customers
Sam Altman is apologising after subscribers who pay up to $200 a month found themselves locked out of the model OpenAI called the start of 'the AGI era'.
OpenAI Faces 30 New Lawsuits Over Canada School Shooting, Accused of Choosing Silence Over Safety
Students, teachers and a principal from Tumbler Ridge are suing OpenAI in California, claiming the company knew its chatbot was being used to plan violence and said nothing.
Europe Could Hold the Only Real Brake on the Global AI Race
A Guardian columnist argues that export controls on the machines that build AI chips might be the one lever powerful enough to slow an industry that few governments seem willing to touch.
OpenAI cuts off Cursor's access to its AI models after SpaceX buys the coding tool
OpenAI says it cannot trust Elon Musk's companies to follow its rules, so it will shut down Cursor's access to its models on 12 November 2026.
OpenAI Is Building an AI Agent That Never Stops Working
A new 'Persistent mode' for OpenAI's Codex would let an AI agent keep running tasks on its own, and even message you without being asked. Here is what that means for ordinary users.
OpenAI Is Growing Fast and Losing Executives Even Faster. Here's Why.
More than a dozen senior leaders have left OpenAI since January. The company's co-founder is quietly picking up the pieces, and a closely-watched stock market debut hangs over everything.
OpenAI's Head of Data Centers Has Left the Company, Adding to a Long List of Senior Departures
Chris Malone, who oversaw OpenAI's data center strategy during a critical period of infrastructure growth, left last week. He is at least the 13th senior executive to exit the company in 2026.