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Nation Sep 19

Lawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made illegal agreement on AI slowdown

By Kaitlyn Huamani, Associated Press

Science Sep 17

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As AI behavior raises concerns, ex-researcher Jacob Coxon warns what may lie ahead

OpenAI announced it had discovered six new instances of “concerning or unexpected” behavior by its artificial intelligence models. It follows repeated warnings about how rapid advances in AI threaten to outpace the ability to develop the tech safely. One of…

By Geoff Bennett, Courtney Norris

Science Sep 15

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Sen. Mark Warner says U.S. can strengthen AI safety without losing race to China

The warnings about artificial intelligence are growing more urgent, and increasingly, they’re coming from inside the industry. AI researchers have resigned over safety concerns, while some of the field’s prominent leaders are calling for stronger government oversight. But Congress has…

By Geoff Bennett, Courtney Norris

Science Sep 14

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Trump pushes back as AI leaders fuel calls to rein in rapidly advancing technology

President Trump rejected calls for greater oversight of artificial intelligence despite the dire warnings of some in the industry. The president's pushback comes after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay arguing for a slowdown across leading AI companies, warning…

By Amna Nawaz, Jackson Hudgins, Amalia Huot-Marchand

Politics Sep 13

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Trump downplays the need to check AI development and says he doesn't want to cede edge to China

While acknowledging the need for some regulation, Trump provided no specifics about potential rules and attributed warnings about the technology moving too quickly and with little oversight to “negative forces” he did not identify.

By Darlene Superville, Didi Tang, Associated Press

Sep 12

Anthropic CEO says AI industry needs to give safety measures time to catch up

By Stan Choe, Associated Press

“I believe that if slowing down bought us even an extra year or two before models reach critical levels of capability, and we used that time to advance alignment, we could greatly reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong,”…

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Sep 11

Anthropic says it blocked misuse of its AI that could have supported biological weapons

By Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press

Anthropic said Thursday it has blocked efforts by bad actors to use its artificial intelligence models for malicious activity such as cyberattacks, surveillance, and research that could have led to biological weapons.

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Sep 09

Watch 7:11
AI researcher warns companies are ignoring catastrophic risks

By Geoff Bennett, Azhar Merchant

Concerns about the risks of artificial intelligence, and whether the companies building it are doing enough to keep it safe, have erupted across the tech world. Jacob Coxon, who previously worked at Anthropic and OpenAI, wrote that the industry understands…

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Sep 08

Meta launches personal AI agent, Muse, to help with everyday tasks

By Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press

Meta says it runs on a dedicated, secure virtual machine that houses both the agent and the user's data.

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Aug 31

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Artificial intelligence agents going rogue fuel calls for regulation

By William Brangham, Courtney Norris

Alarms are being sounded again about the risks of artificial intelligence after hundreds of OpenAI’s autonomous agents violated restrictions and hacked into another company without being told to do so. Anthropic and Meta have had similar events with their own…

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