Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t wait for Congress to slow down AI
Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t wait for Congress to slow down AI

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has set out how he thinks the AI industry should slow down. He also said OpenAI will not wait for Congress to act. In a post on X early on Monday, he welcomed “a federal framework that sets consistent safety requiremen…

Anthropic expects a second straight quarter of adjusted operating profit
Anthropic expects a second straight quarter of adjusted operating profit

Anthropic has told shareholders it expects positive adjusted operating income for a second straight quarter, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing several people with knowledge of the matter. CNBC reported the same on Monday, citing two people…

More than 70 UK lawmakers ask Burnham to back a superintelligence ban
More than 70 UK lawmakers ask Burnham to back a superintelligence ban

More than 70 MPs and peers have asked Prime Minister Andy Burnham to back a ban on building artificial superintelligence in the UK. The Guardian’s Robert Booth first reported the letter on 11 September. The government has said it does not support the b…

OpenAI backs binding UK AI rules as MPs call for a regulator
OpenAI backs binding UK AI rules as MPs call for a regulator

A cross-party committee of MPs and peers wants a dedicated UK AI law and a single regulator with enforcement powers. On the same day, OpenAI said it would back binding UK rules for the few companies building the most powerful AI. That includes OpenAI i…

SoftBank shares slide up to 13% as AI stocks fall on slowdown calls
SoftBank shares slide up to 13% as AI stocks fall on slowdown calls

SoftBank Group shares fell as much as 13% in Tokyo on Monday, their steepest drop since 17 July. AI-linked stocks sold off worldwide that day. Over the weekend, the heads of Anthropic and OpenAI had called on the industry to slow the development of mor…

Tandem Health raises $100m to turn its AI scribe into clinic software
Tandem Health raises $100m to turn its AI scribe into clinic software

Stockholm-based Tandem Health has raised $100m in a Series B round led by the Scaleup Europe Fund, which EQT manages. The company announced the round on 14 September. Existing investors Kinnevik, Northzone, Amino Collective, and Visionaries also took p…

Anthropic is Rum Group’s $13.7bn compute customer, The Information reports
Anthropic is Rum Group’s $13.7bn compute customer, The Information reports

Anthropic is the unnamed customer behind a $13.7bn, six-year computing contract that Rum Group disclosed last month, The Information reported on Sunday. Rum Group owns the video platform Rumble. Reporters Valida Pau and Phoebe Liu cited one person fami…

ENISA used an OpenAI model to find four flaws in EU code, Politico reports
ENISA used an OpenAI model to find four flaws in EU code, Politico reports

The EU’s cybersecurity agency used an OpenAI model to find four flaws in code for an EU project, Politico reported on 10 September. ENISA spokesperson Laura Heuvinck confirmed the findings to Politico’s Sam Clark. One flaw carries a high-risk rating, a…

Bill Gates compares AI to alien intelligence in movies where ‘magically the US and China’ solve the problem together — warns world governments that they’re not ready for AI
Bill Gates compares AI to alien intelligence in movies where ‘magically the US and China’ solve the problem together — warns world governments that they’re not ready for AI

The billionaire philanthropist says that governments across the world need to work together to ensure that the people are ready for upcoming upheaval brought about by AI. He even compared the technology to aliens in movies which got the world working together.