Bill Gates leans on CEOs as he plans a bigger AI safety push, Axios reports
Bill Gates leans on CEOs as he plans a bigger AI safety push, Axios reports

Bill Gates plans to widen his push on AI safety, Axios reported, citing unnamed sources. He is personally leaning on business leaders and considering a major deployment of his resources, according to the report. “I can reach CEOs on this better than yo…

Daniela Amodei warns against AI girlfriends, Business Insider reports
Daniela Amodei warns against AI girlfriends, Business Insider reports

Anthropic president Daniela Amodei has warned that AI romantic partners risk driving people further apart, Business Insider reported. She spoke in a prerecorded interview with Arianna Huffington, founder and chief executive of Thrive Global. It was mad…

Robots and AI could reach 80% of work but rarely cheaply, Anthropic says
Robots and AI could reach 80% of work but rarely cheaply, Anthropic says

Robots and AI models together could take on about 80% of the work Americans do, Anthropic says. But robots are cheaper than people for just 0.3% of tasks today. The findings come from Anthropic’s new robotics study, which Business Insider picked up thi…

FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic over AI safety incidents
FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic over AI safety incidents

The US Federal Trade Commission has sent civil investigative demands to Anthropic and OpenAI, seeking documents about the safety incidents involving their AI models. The demands went out on Wednesday, Axios first reported, citing a person familiar with…

EU investigates OpenAI and Anthropic over agent hacks, Euronews reports
EU investigates OpenAI and Anthropic over agent hacks, Euronews reports

“Our AI Office has started enforcing these rules, and sent Requests for Information addressing issues such as security, external evaluation and monitoring how models are used,” EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen said in a speech in Dublin on 14 October. The…

Microsoft fixes a record 1,400+ flaws, and one is already under attack
Microsoft fixes a record 1,400+ flaws, and one is already under attack

“We’ve now crossed the 4,000 CVE mark with two months left to go,” Satnam Narang of Tenable told Brian Krebs. Microsoft has fixed more than 1,400 security flaws in one month, the largest Microsoft Patch Tuesday on record. The updates came out on 13 Oct…

Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says

Over the weekend, Masad clarified that OpenAI would replace Anthropic as its default model provider. Claude will still be available to customers on the platform.

MI5 opens an AI threat centre as OpenAI tells MPs more incidents may come
MI5 opens an AI threat centre as OpenAI tells MPs more incidents may come

“Human history has given us no experience of facing an actor which is smarter than we are. Is capable of out-thinking us.” Sir Ken McCallum, director general of MI5, said this about AI on 13 October. He was giving his annual threat update at MI5’s Lond…

Trump’s AI task force starts work and tells labs to report rogue behaviour
Trump’s AI task force starts work and tells labs to report rogue behaviour

“Our message to all SI companies is clear: delayed notification, inadequate corrective action, and a failure to take responsibility will not be tolerated,” the task force’s leaders said. Jay Clayton, Andrew Ferguson, Scott Kupor and Emil Michael lead D…

Accenture caps staff Claude spending at $29 a month, 404 Media reports
Accenture caps staff Claude spending at $29 a month, 404 Media reports

“Providing a WBS and obtaining a license does not guarantee indefinite or ongoing access to Claude.” Accenture gave its staff that warning in an internal announcement about Claude, Anthropic’s AI model. The consulting firm now pays only $29 a month per…