Inside the Discussions at AI Companies Over a Superintelligence Doomsday

Researchers at Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google are increasingly trying to raise awareness about the risks of artificial intelligence.
Anthropic C.E.O. Dario Amodei Calls for A.I. Slowdown

In a 3,800-word essay, Dario Amodei laid out the rapidly advancing capabilities of artificial intelligence and said there needed to be greater safety controls across the industry.
Anthropic CEO outlines plan to ‘pace the frontier’

What would it actually look like to “pace the frontier”?
Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests

Revolut said it notified affected customers and alerted the relevant government agency, law enforcement, and financial regulators.
PlayStation gambles with 18-rated Wolverine game – will it pay off?

The BBC’s Tom Gerken plays the hotly anticipated superhero game from Spider-Man makers Insomniac.
Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data

The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.
Khosla Ventures is opening a New York office this fall — its first outpost outside Sand Hill Road

“It’s actually allegedly being built out now,” said Rabois, who has clearly dealt with a missed construction timeline or two.
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too

Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.
OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating

Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.
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