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OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns

A top executive at the AI lab told the Wall Street Journal that the model in question had displayed a poor aptitude for following orders.

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Nvidia may sell more chips in China as Jensen Huang’s influence over Trump grows

China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.

Bill Gates warns of ‘a billion’ deaths if AI goes wrong

Former Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates said artificial intelligence could be powerful enough to cause mass devastation for the human race — reflecting the tech mogul’s recent shift to being worried about the technology’s potential impacts.

Inference Provider Modal Labs Closing in on $750M Round at $15.75B Valuation

The new financing is expected to more than triple the AI infrastructure startup's valuation from just four months ago.

Nvidia says new tool can contain rogue AI agents in "milliseconds"

Nvidia is deploying a new tool that it says can be used to prevent and contain rogue AI agents.

Pope Leo rejects AI "fake news" claims after Trump calls fears a "hoax"

Leo has made confronting AI concerns a key part of his papacy.

Vibe Check: Sonnet 5.5 Finds Its Place in Claude’s Crowded Family

Anthropic's new model is a more capable partner than Sonnet 5, so long as you keep a hand on the wheel and know when to call in Opus

Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development

State says LLMs threaten civilization as “the greatest public nuisance ever created.”

AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion

The acquisition will see World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.

President Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson to Meet with Tech Leaders About AI

Expected attendees include Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and OpenAI President Greg Brockman, according to CNBC and Reuters.

Meta's Muse is counting on you to shop. It might just be another place for Mark Zuckerberg to sell ads.

Muse could upend Amazon if lots of people had reasons to use AI agents to do their shopping. But they probably don't.