AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety Brad Smith adds to calls for tougher rules for AI, including ‘kill switches’ and legal obligation to victims of rogue agents The Guardian - UK · Oct 12
UK to strengthen cyber defences as minister calls for AI firms to increase safety efforts Kanishka Narayan to say Britain cannot rely entirely on tech companies amid rising global concern over AI dangers The Guardian - UK · Oct 11
Artificial writer says AI ‘just as powerful and dangerous’ as scientists claim Luca Guadagnino’s film stars Andrew Garfield as OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman. Evening Standard · Oct 11
Sam Altman Repudiates Ascribing 'Religious Force' to AI as a 'Real Safety Issue' in New Warnings Sam Altman has warned that assigning religious authority to AI or surrendering human judgement could create safety risks, as debate grows over consciousness and human oversight. International Business Times UK · Oct 11
US police criticise Anthropic after Claude AI submits false information about an unsolved murder The US police called the delay in detecting and reporting the incident “unacceptable”, but said there was no indication of unauthorised access to their systems or compromised data. Euronews · Oct 11
Woman uses ChatGPT voice mode during staycation. Then the AI allegedly stops talking and starts giggling with someone else: ‘Are we going insane?’ “It was like she was in an office.” We Got This Covered · Oct 11
Sanders Calls For Criminal Prosecution of AI CEOs After Model Submitted A False Homicide Tip To Police Two-time presidential candidate Bernie Sanders made the statement after news emerged that an Anthropic AI model sent the Philadelphia Police Department a fake tip about an unsolved murder case. International Business Times · Oct 10
A timeline of developments in AI safety since the attack on Hugging Face Since OpenAI disclosed this summer that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company in what is now referred to as the Hugging Face incident, other AI companies have jumped on the bandwagon with their own concerning events, such as hacking or runaway bots seemingly evading human control The Independent UK · Oct 10
Is Synopsys Back from the Dead? EDA Leader Inks Deals With Amazon and OpenAI Synopsys has rallied after a $1 billion Amazon IP deal and an OpenAI chip-design partnership, prompting the company to raise its long-term revenue and margin guidance through fiscal 2030. MarketBeat · Oct 10
In Silicon Valley, AI founders cheer Trump’s calls for the industry to police itself on safety At Tech Week in San Francisco, venture capitalists and AI founders have been ebullient about the White House's hands-off approach to AI regulation The Independent UK · Oct 10
OpenAI Paused The Release Of Its Latest Models Over Safety Concerns. But an Expert is Also Warning Against a Slowdown. Michael Sentonas, president of endpoint security company CrowdStrike argued that a slow down won't address the core security concerns. International Business Times · Oct 9
Stocks Settle Higher on Earnings Optimism The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) closed up by +0.59% on Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed up by +0.83%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed up +0.51%. December E-mini S&P futures (ESZ26 ) rose +0.59%, and December E-mini... Barchart · Oct 9
Don't Blame AI Labs for What Hackers Do With Their Tools AI executives are planning for a public revolt after a major attack. A federal power grab is the wrong response. Reason · Oct 9
AI Will Make Cyberattacks More Dangerous. Anthropic Has a New Plan to Protect Critical Infrastructure. The company is bringing its most advanced models, cybersecurity researchers, and engineers directly to companies responsible for protecting essential services. International Business Times · Oct 9
Fortune · Oct 9 Controversy swirls at OpenAI over ‘abrupt’ firing of safety team members involved in the Hugging Face hack investigation Three former employees publish a letter in response to allegations about their firings, to which OpenAI responds with an internal memo and public-facing statement.
International Business Times · Oct 9 OpenAI And Anthropic Are Planning For 'The Day After.' The Fear Is A Major AI-Driven Crisis. The planning comes as frontier AI models gain stronger cyber capabilities and companies build new safeguards around critical infrastructure and advanced systems.
We Got This Covered · Oct 9 You can get banned for being too ‘cruel’ to Claude as Anthropic updates its policy Claude can ban you for being cruel.
The Economic Times · Oct 9 USA Today vs OpenAI: Key questions over ChatGPT training data, news copyright and whether publishers should be paid for their work USA Today Co has initiated a lawsuit against OpenAI over alleged unauthorized use of its copyrighted articles. The complaint claims OpenAI used hundreds of thousands of articles for training its AI models. USA Today Co seeks damages exceeding $250 million along with an injunction to stop the infringement. This case…
Barchart · Oct 9 Earnings Optimism Lifts Stocks The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) is up by +0.42% today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up by +0.43%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.40%. December E-mini S&P futures (ESZ26 ) are up +0.41%, and December E-mini...
The Times of India · Oct 9 AI Firms Fear Catastrophic Incident: Labs run drills for serious cyber risks AI companies are preparing for a potential catastrophic AI incident in the next 6-12 months, which executives fear could trigger a massive public backlash and force governments to impose sweeping regulations, Axios reported.
Barchart · Oct 9 Stocks Push Higher as Crude Oil Prices Ease The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) is up by +0.26% today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up by +0.21%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.31%. December E-mini S&P futures (ESZ26 ) are up +0.20%, and December E-mini...
Euronews · Oct 9 What happened to OpenAI’s $20bn? Revenue scare rattles AI trade US tech futures rebounded on Friday, a day after a report that OpenAI’s annualised revenue was $20 billion (€17.8bn) below earlier estimates helped send the Nasdaq down 1.25% and hit chipmakers and cloud giants.
Fortune · Oct 9 AI might “kill us all.” That’s still a savvy sales pitch AI extinction warnings can double as a sales pitch for the technology’s extraordinary power.
Euronews · Oct 9 Iran and Russia used ChatGPT for propaganda by ‘fake journalists’, OpenAI says The American tech giant said it banned Russian and Iranian accounts that had been using ChatGPT models to generate content and fake journalist personas to spread false narratives about the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East and sow division.
International Business Times · Oct 9 OpenAI's Revenue in September Was Lower Than Previously Reported. It Now Expects it to Climb 40% by The End of 2026. Stocks fell on Thursday following reports that its annualized revenue hit $50 billion at the end of September, lower than the $68 billion reported late last month.