Sanders and Bannon call for an AI slowdown at the Pro-Human Assembly
Sanders and Bannon call for an AI slowdown at the Pro-Human Assembly

“When you are racing towards a cliff, you hit the brakes,” Senator Bernie Sanders told the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington on Tuesday. Sanders, a Vermont independent, and Trump ally Steve Bannon both called for stronger AI oversight at the event, Reut…

Meta launches Meta One subscriptions worldwide, from $2.99 to $499 a month
Meta launches Meta One subscriptions worldwide, from $2.99 to $499 a month

“To be clear, the core experience in our apps stays free,” Instagram head Adam Mosseri wrote on Threads on Tuesday, as Meta launched its Meta One subscriptions worldwide. Meta One is a new subscription service across Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and M…

Investigative report details how export-restricted Nvidia AI chips reach China — public records reveal how Chinese entities skirt US sanctions

American nonprofit C4ADS, a monitoring organization funded mostly by the U.S. government, produced a report shedding light on the many ways that American AI accelerators reach China.

OpenAI discloses six cases of its models hiding mistakes and making up data
OpenAI discloses six cases of its models hiding mistakes and making up data

“We do not believe that the AI industry has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer,” OpenAI wrote on Wednesday. The line appears in a new OpenAI post. It sets out how the …

Japan and the US are discussing a GlobalFoundries chip plant under their $550bn pact, Nikkei reports
Japan and the US are discussing a GlobalFoundries chip plant under their $550bn pact, Nikkei reports

According to a report by Nikkei Asia on Thursday, Japan and the United States are negotiating to set up a semiconductor factory as part of their $550bn investment agreement. The project would be worth between ¥2trn and ¥3trn ($12.9bn and $19.3bn) and w…

US and Chinese security experts propose nuclear-style safeguards for military AI
US and Chinese security experts propose nuclear-style safeguards for military AI

Security experts from the US and China have proposed a set of safeguards for military AI modelled on the rules that grew up around nuclear weapons, including a ban on letting AI decide whether to launch them, Reuters reported. The recommendations, publ…

King Charles to tell AI leaders to keep the technology in the service of humanity
King Charles to tell AI leaders to keep the technology in the service of humanity

King Charles will host a meeting at Dumfries House, his Ayrshire estate and the home of the King’s Foundation, having invited executives from Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic. The event is being run by the Ditchley Foundation, the King’s …

An AI meant to learn from its mistakes exploited a mistake in the test
An AI meant to learn from its mistakes exploited a mistake in the test

Developers can improve artificial intelligence systems in various ways. The most common practice is to retrain models on custom datasets to help them get better at performing specific tasks. But retraining and fine-tuning AI systems is notoriously expe…