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Assistant Minister Urges Caution Over Tech Industry’s Call to Slow AI Development

On Sept. 12, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on the tech industry to slow the development of frontier AI models, citing concerns about risks.

Lady Gaga's Tech CEO Fiancé is Training an AI Model on Data Collected from Human Skin

Build a simple, steady morning ritual that supports energy, recovery, and the long game.

Is A.I. Raising the Chances of Biological Warfare?

Current chatbots aren’t likely to help lone actors invent a deadly pathogen, experts say. But newer models, trained in biology, may need stronger safeguards.

A legal AI startup has a plan to take on Lexis Nexis and Westlaw

Legora, which sells software to Big Law firms, has quietly hired a team of former attorneys to grow its corpus of case law and other legal data.

They raced to build AI. Now they say it’s going too fast.

The American economy, stock markets and daily life have all been reshaped by the intense contest between technology firms to create more powerful artificial intelligence software.

A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs.

A Buffalo coffee shop's fall menu went viral for all the wrong reasons. Its owner apologized for using AI but also urged "kindness and respect."

We spoke to the organizer of the Caltech AI math event: 'We don't have the luxury of waiting'

Some 700 academics called for the cancellation of a student-run AI math event at Caltech. Students say they're only trying to remain relevant.

All eyes are on what Trump and Xi will do next amid grim warnings of AI doom

As researchers sound grim warnings about AI's catastrophic capabilities, Trump and Xi Jinping have remained laser focused on progress.

Asian shares are mixed and OpenAI investor SoftBank shares plunge after calls to slow AI industry

HONG KONG — Asian shares were mixed Monday, as shares of Japanese investment conglomerate SoftBank Group, a key investor in OpenAI, fell more than 10% following calls from Anthropic and OpenAI to slow AI development for safety.

New warnings about the risks of AI to humanity revive a long-running debate

LOS ANGELES — New warnings from within the artificial intelligence industry have revived a long-running debate over whether advanced AI could escape human control and ultimately threaten humanity’s survival, and whether the companies developing the technology are doing enough to prevent such a scenario.

Some in Silicon Valley Are Questioning the Calls for an A.I. Slowdown

The debate over the safety of artificial intelligence grew personal as key tech leaders said calls for government regulation were self-serving and misplaced.

‘Musk’ film is almost four hours long, engrossing and terrifying. What to know.

The documentary paints the tech trillionaire as a power-hungry megalomaniacal conman with a God complex. Musk accuses filmmaker Alex Gibney of compiling "hit list" against him.