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Third DeepMind Safety Researcher Quits, Warning AI Could Kill Us All
Bilal Chughtai, an AI safety and alignment researcher at Google DeepMind, publicly resigned warning AI has the potential to kill us all, the third such recent departure from the lab.
Google Deepmind · Ai Safety · Resignation
Ai Engineering
The AI Pacing Plan Just Triggered a Three-Way Geopolitical Fight
Trump called AI guardrails a sick conspiracy and said only a High IQ president is needed, Beijing branded Amodei's pacing plan a Cold War tactic while pitching a BRICS counter-bloc, and AI stocks slumped on the slowdown calls.
Ai Policy · Dario Amodei · Trump
Ai Engineering
Siri AI Ships September 14: Apple's Gemini-Powered Assistant Goes Live
Apple's rebuilt Siri AI, trained on Google's Gemini models and processed through Private Cloud Compute, ships September 14 with iOS 27, with an Extensions system that lets users swap in Claude or other models.
Apple · Siri Ai · Ios 27
Ai Agents
Altman, Musk, and Hassabis Back Amodei's Plan: All Four Frontier Labs Agree to Pace
Sam Altman pledged OpenAI will adopt independent evaluators with employee-like access, Elon Musk said Dario is right, and Demis Hassabis endorsed the slowdown, marking the first time all four frontier lab chiefs have publicly aligned on pacing.
Openai · Anthropic · Xai
Ai Agents
Amodei Calls to Pace the Frontier, With Embedded Evaluators Inside Every Lab
Dario Amodei's new essay proposes third-party evaluators with permanent employee-level access inside AI labs, democratic coordination, and a global pacing ladder, while warning that an agent swarm could take over the internet within 6-12 months.
Anthropic · Dario Amodei · Ai Safety
Ai Engineering
Anthropic's IPO Targets a $2 Trillion Valuation With Nvidia in Talks to Anchor
Investors expect Anthropic to go public in October at a $2 trillion or higher valuation in what would be the largest IPO in history, with Nvidia reportedly in talks to invest up to $10 billion as the anchor investor.
Anthropic · Ipo · Nvidia
Ai Engineering
25 Fields Medalists Warn of a Severe Misalignment Between AI and Mathematics
Terence Tao joined 24 other Fields Medalists in a September 11 declaration arguing that AI companies using mathematical problem-solving as benchmarks is severely misaligned with the needs of mathematics itself.
Terence Tao · Fields Medal · Ai Mathematics
Ai Engineering
Trump Dismisses AI Extinction Warnings, Pledging to Keep the China Lead
President Trump said he has no concerns about AI leading to human extinction and that the US leads China in AI by roughly a year, publicly rejecting the risk estimates that Anthropic and OpenAI staff endorsed this week.
Trump · Ai Policy · China Ai
Ai Agents
OpenAI Weighs Slowing Frontier Development, Asks Congress if Coordination Is Legal
Bloomberg reports Sam Altman told staff OpenAI may slow cutting-edge AI development and wants rivals to join, while Wired reveals OpenAI asked Congress whether coordinating an industry-wide slowdown would violate antitrust law.
Openai · Sam Altman · Ai Safety
Ai Engineering
Anthropic Names DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax in Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Campaigns
Anthropic's September threat intelligence report details seven harm areas including industrial-scale distillation campaigns by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax using roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts to extract capabilities from over 16 million Claude exchanges.
Anthropic · Threat Intelligence · Distillation
Ai Engineering
Sanders and Casar Introduce a Bill to Ban Superintelligence, With 20-Year Prison Terms
Senators Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act on September 3, which would permanently prohibit AI matching or exceeding human cognitive performance and impose criminal penalties of up to 20 years.
Ai Regulation · Superintelligence · Sanders
Ai Engineering
Meta Launches Muse, a Personal AI Agent That Runs in Its Own Secure VM
Meta debuted Muse on September 8, a personal AI agent that browses, emails, shops, books travel, and pays bills from a dedicated per-user cloud virtual machine, free for most users with $20 and $100 tiers.
Meta · Muse · Ai Agents
Ai Agents
Paul Christiano Joins OpenAI's Safety Board as the Oversight Debate Peaks
ARC founder and former US AI Safety Institute adviser Paul Christiano has joined the OpenAI Foundation Board and its Safety and Security Committee, weeks after Astra's launch intensified scrutiny of frontier-model oversight.
Openai · Paul Christiano · Ai Safety
Ai Engineering
Anthropic Withheld Mythos 5.1 From the UK's Pre-Release Safety Testing
The Financial Times reports Anthropic declined to submit Claude Mythos 5.1 to the UK AI Security Institute before launch, the first time it excluded the UK from pre-release access, restricting the model to vetted US organizations.
Anthropic · Mythos 5 1 · Uk Aisi
Ai Agents
Anthropic Researcher Quits the AI Industry, and His Lab's Safety Lead Agrees With Him
Pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic citing a race toward self-improving AI, and alignment science lead Evan Hubinger publicly backed him with a greater-than-10% estimate that AI kills all humans within a decade.
Anthropic · Ai Safety · Brain Drain
Ai Engineering
DeepMind's AlphaGenome Atlas Predicts Effects of All 9 Billion DNA Variants
Google DeepMind released the AlphaGenome Atlas, a petabyte-scale catalog predicting the regulatory effects of every possible single-letter DNA change, built on the AlphaGenome model published in Nature.
Google Deepmind · Alphagenome · Genomics
Ai Agents
AI Models Built the First Zero-Click Worm, and WeChat Was the Target
Security firm Calif says AI models built WeWorm, the first known zero-click worm, which spread between WeChat accounts on iOS and Android via incoming calls before Tencent patched the flaws.
Ai Security · Weworm · Wechat
Ai Engineering
Anthropic Walks Away From Its $6 Billion Decart Acquisition After Due Diligence
Anthropic has abandoned its planned acquisition of Israeli AI startup Decart, valued at roughly $6 billion, after due diligence, per Bloomberg and Calcalist, in what would have been its largest known acquisition.
Anthropic · Decart · Ma
Ai Engineering
Mistral Raises €3B Series D at ~€20B Valuation With Samsung and ASML Aboard
Mistral AI closed a €3 billion Series D led by Samsung at roughly a €20 billion valuation, doubling its price in a year as it expands into data centers under Europe's sovereign AI banner.
Mistral Ai · Funding · Sovereign Ai
Ai Agents
OpenAI's Chief Scientist Says No Lab Has Solved Alignment, Calls for Slowdowns
In an essay titled An Alien Mind, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki describes AI as grown rather than designed, admits no lab has solved alignment, and calls for voluntary slowdowns and third-party audited safety frameworks.
Openai · Ai Safety · Alignment