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Fortune · Aug 13

'Keep Your Word': Bernie Sanders Urges OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic to Pause AI Development

Senator Bernie Sanders urges OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to halt AI development, warning of risks and calling for safety commitments. He hints at Senate intervention if ignored.

International Business Times UK · Aug 11

Bernie Sanders Tells AI CEOs To Hit The Brakes, Warns Congress Will Step In If They Don't

Bernie Sanders said leading AI companies should honor their own safety commitments before increasingly powerful systems become too difficult to control.

International Business Times · Aug 10

Nearly a third of workers admit to sabotaging their company's AI—and smaller paychecks may explain why

As surveys document quiet resistance and outright sabotage, Apollo's Torsten Slok offers a theory: AI is compressing wages while leaving job counts intact.

Fortune · Jul 30

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI is killing tasks not jobs—and the white-collar bloodbath narrative gets the future of work ‘exactly backwards’

“AI automates tasks away, but it doesn’t necessarily eliminate jobs,” Huang said.

Fortune · Jul 28

OpenAI And Anthropic Have Warned About AI Moving Too Fast. Now Its Employees Want The U.S. Government To Take Action

Employees from OpenAI and Anthropic are circulating a petition calling on the government to "deliberately pace" the development of AI to prevent it from moving too fast, according to a new report.

International Business Times · Jul 28

Top AI companies say they want Chinese models to stay available. Is it genuine?

In an open letter, Nvidia, Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and dozens of other AI companies speak out about the importance of access to the latest models—no matter where they're from.

Fortune · Jul 28

'Sugarcoating the Risk': Anthropic Boss Warned of 20% Job Loss, But His Own Chief Economist Disagrees

Anthropic chief economist Peter McCrory has challenged his CEO's bleak forecasts on AI-driven unemployment, arguing new data show no sign of a mass US jobs crisis yet.

International Business Times UK · Jul 27

Sam Altman says ‘we are now in the singularity’, OpenAI CEO reveals why he believes humanity has entered an AI era once thought possible only in science fiction

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says humanity has entered the "singularity," a point where artificial intelligence is advancing beyond what once seemed possible only in science fiction. Speaking on the Relentless podcast, Altman called the moment "hugely positive" while reiterating warnings that AI could replace 30% to 40% of today's jobs.

The Economic Times · Jul 27

South Korea's SK Hynix, Samsung Electronics sign $950 billion partnership with US big tech

The partnership includes the long-term supply of $750 ​billion in memory ​chips to US companies by SK Hynix ‌and $200 billion in chips ​by Samsung ​Electronics ⁠to Broadcom, the presidential adviser, Kim Yong-beom, ​said at a briefing.

The Economic Times · Jul 25