‘If you’re building Frankenstein, stop’: JD Vance dismisses calls for AI regulation US vice-president’s comments come as former Anthropic researcher revisits recent claim AI could destroy humanity The Guardian - UK · Sep 16
AI CEOs Say the Tech Race Is Moving Too Fast. Investors May Pay the Price. Investors are now confronting whether or not efforts intended to make AI safer could weaken economic growth, corporate profits, and Americans' investment portfolios. International Business Times · Sep 16
The US government is failing Americans on AI Trump and Republicans want companies to regulate themselves. It’s a dereliction of duty that will make AI less safe The Guardian - US · Sep 16
GE Vernova, CG Power, other power capex stocks tumble up to 16% in 2 days amid global AI caution. What's ahead? Power capex stocks such as GE Vernova T&D India, CG Power, Hitachi Energy and TD Power Systems fell up to 16% over two sessions amid growing caution around AI development. The stocks had rallied sharply in 2026 on expectations of rising power demand from India’s data centre boom, making them… The Economic Times · Sep 16
Wednesday briefing: Why tech companies might be only too happy for us to believe AI will ‘kill us all’ In today’s newsletter: It is hard to tell fact from fiction when it comes to AI. What is really going on – and what should the government do about it? The Guardian - UK · Sep 16
Anthropic will open its Singapore office in October, chasing OpenAI for Southeast Asia's AI market According to Anthropic data, Singapore was ranked second out of 121 countries in Claude usage, behind Australia. Fortune · Sep 16
Anthropic lands deal in $31bn datacentre in western Queensland, David Crisafulli says Premier describes deal as ‘major win’ that will deliver more jobs for the state and put more energy into its grid The Guardian - AU · Sep 16
Chris Murphy Says AI Industry 'Can't' Protect Americans Days After Amodei, Altman, and Musk Backed a Slowdown Chris Murphy's AI warning explained: learn why the senator distrusts tech companies to keep jobs secure and what he asks lawmakers to do instead. International Business Times UK · Sep 16
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg says AI labs have enough incentive to build safely Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday that competition and liability give AI companies enough reason to act individually on safety, appearing to break from calls by leaders of top AI firms for a coordinated slowdown in AI development. The Economic Times · Sep 16
Is the nuclear non-proliferation pact a model for regulating runaway AI? The potential existential threat of artificial intelligence has leapt into the headlines after a departing safety researcher at AI corporation Anthropic posted on social media he believed there was more than a one-in-ten chance AI could kill everyone. The Conversation · Sep 16
Trump, Xi are unlikely to agree to AI slowdown at meeting next week, despite calls from OpenAI and Anthropic to do so, experts say The CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI say the two countries must pace technological development to protect the human race, but both leader seems uninterested, and maybe even antagonistic to the idea. Fortune · Sep 15
Bannon and Sanders Just Agreed on Something: AI Needs Limits Bannon and Sanders united at a Washington summit to demand AI limits. We verified the weapons and safety claims fueling their warning. Latin Times · Sep 15
Push for AI regulation mounts as talk of AI's "existential" risks go mainstream Fears of AI "killing all humans" broke into the mainstream discourse last week. But what happens as a result of the debate remains far from clear. Fortune · Sep 15
Anthropic CEO renews call for AI slowdown as Nvidia’s urges acceleration At San Francisco conference, OpenAI chief Sam Altman calls for more rigorous security measures The Guardian - US · Sep 15
The Conversation · Sep 15 Russian team ‘misused’ Claude AI to train a killer drone on scraped Ukrainian war footage A new threat intelligence report from the AI company Anthropic has revealed that a Russian team scraped Ukrainian combat videos to train an autonomous “kamikaze” drone to choose its own targets and destroy them.
Fortune · Sep 15 'Give the American people a say in how AI develops': Alex Bores launches a $30 million nonprofit bent on regulating AI Alex Bores told Fortune that the Overton Window is wide open: "Even the questions that are being asked are up for grabs."
International Business Times · Sep 15 AI's Biggest Companies Are Calling For A Slowdown. Musk Suggests Rivals Test Each Other's Models. The xAI founder wants OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and leading Chinese developers to examine competitors' systems before they reach the public.
The Economic Times · Sep 15 Anthropic's Amodei calls for industry-wide AI safety standards On the back of publishing an essay urging AI companies to slow down, the Anthropic chief made the case for industry-wide safety standards.
The Economic Times · Sep 15 Ex-Google worker adds to AI alarm, warns of 'potential to kill us all' A former Google DeepMind employee warned that rapidly advancing artificial intelligence could become uncontrollable and has "the potential to kill us all," adding to a growing list of industry insiders sounding the alarm. "I earnestly believe that AI has the potential to kill us all, and that we might be…
France 24 · Sep 15 OpenAI, Anthropic and Google in talks to create a standards body as AI fears rise The world’s biggest AI companies are working to create a new industry standards body, OpenAI said on Tuesday, as rising concerns over the risks of artificial intelligence fuel pressure for greater oversight and safer development of the technology.
International Business Times · Sep 15 Top AI Leaders Have Warned About The Tech Moving Too Fast. They Have Now Started Working Together. OpenAI's policy chief Chris Lehane told Bloomberg that the company is working with Anthropic and Google DeepMind on AI safety.
MarketBeat · Sep 15 Ready to Rumble: Anthropic Rings the AI Bell Rumble signed a six-year, $13.7 billion AI hosting deal with Anthropic, shifting its business toward compute infrastructure and shares rose 11.6% as short sellers faced a squeeze.
The Economic Times · Sep 15 As Silicon Valley's own scientists warn of human extinction, China pitches itself as the adult in the AI room China advocates for global artificial intelligence governance and international cooperation. Leading AI figures in the US have issued stark warnings about the technology's risks. Researchers express concerns about rapid development and potential existential threats. China emphasizes balancing AI advancement with robust safety measures and regulations. This discussion precedes a potential…
The Conversation · Sep 15 Tech leaders are calling for an ‘AI slowdown’ – but what would that mean in practice? On Saturday, Donald Trump said, “We’re leading China on AI… and, frankly, I want to keep it that way because whoever wins AI, wins.” But the danger the world is waking up to is that this is a game both the US and China could lose, potentially fatally, with AI…
International Business Times UK · Sep 15 'Most Published Science Is Fake,' Says Michael Burry After Accusing OpenAI of Hyping AI Fears Michael Burry cites John Ioannidis's research essay while accusing OpenAI and Anthropic of using AI fears to build hype ahead of possible IPOs.