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Meta Launches AI Assistant That Can Write Emails, Make Purchases

Muse, currently only available in the United States, can complete day-to-day tasks such as scheduling, shopping, and emailing.

How AI makes biological research more dangerous

It's hard to erect biosecurity guardrails when you don't know how some AI systems will act.

What's next for the AI safety debate

A week of extraordinary warnings about AI is shifting the fight in Washington from whether to regulate to how far policymakers are willing to go.

For China, a Mock A.I. Attack on WeChat Signals a Dangerous New Era

The demonstration of a potent cyberweapon has exposed China’s vulnerabilities and added to the urgency of A.I. safety talks between Beijing and Washington.

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Elon Musk Has Pledged to Rid His Platform, X, of Child Sexual Abuse, but It Persists

Reviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk.

The AI doomsdayers aren't new. You just weren't paying attention.

Tech workers have long warned that an AI extinction event was possible. What was it about Jacob Coxon's post that made the public care?

Congress gripped by AI panic after doomsday warnings

"We should absolutely act, and act with urgency," said one House Democrat.

Meta's effort to harvest employee data sparked a massive internal revolt

Meta's elite AI unit sought employee data to train models. A leak and worker revolt brought it to a halt.

The Ezra Klein Show: The A.I. Revolt Is Here

The “Hard Fork” team is away this week. But while we’re away, we’re bringing you a recent episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”

'I saw Terminator 2': YC's Garry Tan pushes back on AI doomsday fears

Garry Tan says we're getting distracted by Hollywood-style doomsday scenarios when we should be focused on real AI risks emerging today.

China's star AI labs routed user requests to Claude at least 35 million times in the summer: Anthropic

Anthropic said Alibaba, Moonshot, Zhipu, DeepSeek, and Xiaomi all tried to use Claude to train their models in various ways.