When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans had declared that their aim was to “pace the frontier,” signing on at least partially to a […]
Dario Amodei kicked off a flood of statements over the past few days about AI safety by publishing a long essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier” detailing why AI development should be slowed down. Other AI leaders and politicians are speaking out in favor of or opposing his points, and we’ve compiled some of […]
Glass Imaging was founded by a pair of former Apple engineers who previously led the team that developed Apple’s Portrait Mode.
Hugging Face has asked to become one of the outside auditors of the AI labs. Clement Delangue announced the Open Alignment Initiative on X on Saturday. He posted it four hours after Dario Amodei said Anthropic would let third-party evaluators inside. A…
AI companies want to slow down development, but that doesn’t fly with Trump and China – so what do the experts think?
Senate negotiators are drafting a bill that would let the US government stop the release of an AI model. Courtney Rozen reported the terms for Reuters. Her sources are two Senate aides, a person familiar with the deliberations and a lobbyist involved i…
OpenAI has pulled its $1m sponsorship of a student-run AI maths event at Caltech. Mathematicians had signed an open letter calling for the event to be scrapped. The next day, 25 Fields Medallists published a separate declaration of their own. Two lette…
China’s minister of state security has named two American AI models as a threat to Chinese infrastructure. Chen Yixin made the claim in a signed article published on Sunday. It ran in China Cyberspace, the journal of the Cyberspace Administration of Ch…
OpenAI has confirmed that its agents were involved in an incident at RubyGems in May. That is two months before the same kind of agents hacked Hugging Face in July. RubyGems is the package service for the Ruby programming language. The confirmation fol…
Documents revealed disputed Pentagon requests for an OpenAI system with fewer refusals, while officials denied such language existed in final agreements.