Sam Altman rules out an OpenAI listing in 2026 and gives safety as the reason
Sam Altman rules out an OpenAI listing in 2026 and gives safety as the reason

OpenAI will not go public this year, and Sam Altman says the reason is safety. “I would say not 2026,” he told Fortune in an interview at the company’s San Francisco headquarters on Friday. “Given everything happening with safety, right now would be an…

Trump’s former AI czar tells Anthropic and OpenAI to slow down, and to stop asking for anything in return
Trump’s former AI czar tells Anthropic and OpenAI to slow down, and to stop asking for anything in return

David Sacks told Anthropic and OpenAI to go ahead and pace the frontier but to stop seeking an antitrust waiver or an approval regime, arguing that product liability and market pressure already discipline them. Europe reached the same conclusion about …

Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans — penalty on par with illegally developing rogue nuclear weapons
Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans — penalty on par with illegally developing rogue nuclear weapons

Senators Bernie Sanders and Greg Cezar have announced their Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act which threatens 20-year prison sentences for rule breakers.

Xi pitches open-source AI to BRICS as Beijing weighs curbs on its own models
Xi pitches open-source AI to BRICS as Beijing weighs curbs on its own models

Xi Jinping used the BRICS summit to propose a China-led community for open-source AI and to invite members into the World AI Cooperation Organization, a Beijing-founded body of 29 countries with no EU state among them. Europe drew its line in the AI Ac…

China’s data regulator plans standards for embodied AI, ten days after industry asked
China’s data regulator plans standards for embodied AI, ten days after industry asked

China’s National Data Administration said it will develop standards for embodied AI data and guide local authorities on the work, ten days after seven companies asked it for exactly that. Europe regulates who may reach the data a machine generates but …

Sam Altman backs Dario Amodei’s call to slow down, and says OpenAI will do the same
Sam Altman backs Dario Amodei’s call to slow down, and says OpenAI will do the same

Sam Altman says OpenAI will match Anthropic’s commitment to give independent evaluators employee-like access, a day after Dario Amodei asked the industry to slow down and asked Washington for a narrow antitrust waiver so competitors could coordinate. E…

Larry Ellison has cancelled his plan to sell $7.5bn of Oracle stock, a day after it surfaced
Larry Ellison has cancelled his plan to sell $7.5bn of Oracle stock, a day after it surfaced

Larry Ellison has cancelled a trading plan that would have let him sell up to 50 million Oracle shares by 24 October, a day after the plan was disclosed and with no stock sold under it. The instrument is a Rule 10b5-1 plan, an American safe harbour wit…

Larry Ellison steps back from the Oracle spotlight as the AI pivot takes over
Larry Ellison steps back from the Oracle spotlight as the AI pivot takes over

Larry Ellison has been absent from Oracle’s earnings calls this year and is not on the billing for next month’s user conference, a year after the company promoted Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to co-chief executives. Magouyrk built the cloud business …