Clément Delangue tells UN Security Council open-source AI helps defenders
Clément Delangue tells UN Security Council open-source AI helps defenders

Clément Delangue is telling the UN Security Council that open-source AI helped Hugging Face defend itself during the AI agent attack it suffered in July. Speaking to the Council today, he argues the biggest danger is not powerful AI but its uneven dist…

Dario Amodei asks UN Security Council to back a ban on AI bioweapons
Dario Amodei asks UN Security Council to back a ban on AI bioweapons

Dario Amodei is asking the UN Security Council to start with narrow agreements on AI, such as a ban on using it to make biological weapons. Speaking to the Council via video link today, the Anthropic chief executive calls AI the most important global s…

Yoshua Bengio urges UN Security Council to license frontier AI like nuclear power
Yoshua Bengio urges UN Security Council to license frontier AI like nuclear power

Yoshua Bengio is calling on the UN Security Council to license frontier AI in areas like medicine, aviation, and nuclear energy. Speaking in New York today, he says the companies building the most powerful systems have no convincing answer to the risks…

Sam Altman tells UN Security Council OpenAI will slow down
Sam Altman tells UN Security Council OpenAI will slow down

Sam Altman is calling for national and international standards for frontier AI. Speaking at the UN Security Council in New York today, the OpenAI chief executive says no level of catastrophic risk from AI is acceptable. Altman is the second briefer at …

Live: UN Security Council hears AI lab chiefs on loss-of-control risk
Live: UN Security Council hears AI lab chiefs on loss-of-control risk

The UN Security Council is meeting in New York today to discuss the risk of humans losing control of advanced AI. Yoshua Bengio begins by telling ambassadors that AI agents built by leading companies have, in recent months, acted in ways that violate t…

DOJ defends Trump’s White House ban on CNN, Politico and MS NOW
DOJ defends Trump’s White House ban on CNN, Politico and MS NOW

The United States Justice Department has requested that a federal judge dismiss the emergency application submitted by CNN, Politico, and MS NOW to get their reporters readmitted to the White House. In a court document filed on Tuesday evening, the gov…

Microsoft adds $2B to its Gulf spending through 2030
Microsoft adds $2B to its Gulf spending through 2030

Microsoft has committed $10B through 2030 across Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, of which roughly $2B is new and the rest was pledged for the UAE last year. Europe is meanwhile legislating to keep American cloud providers away…

Meta is testing human callers behind its Muse AI agent, Reuters reports
Meta is testing human callers behind its Muse AI agent, Reuters reports

If you ask Meta’s new AI agent to call a hairdresser’s salon, the person on the other end of the line might not be an AI. According to an exclusive report by Reuters on Tuesday, citing internal company postings, Meta has been testing a “human concierge…

Meta’s AI chief wants Muse to make you $1,000
Meta’s AI chief wants Muse to make you $1,000

Alexandr Wang has set Meta’s new AI agent a simple target. Meta’s chief AI officer asked on X whether Muse could “make you $1000”, launching a hashtag challenge a few days after Muse went live on 8 September. The replies have been generous with dollar …

Legora’s CEO says Europe should not build a frontier AI lab
Legora’s CEO says Europe should not build a frontier AI lab

I think a lot of it is marketing, to overemphasize the proposed capabilities. Max Junestrand said that in Amsterdam on Tuesday. He was asked about the summer’s run of incidents in which AI agents hacked other companies. The warnings that followed deser…