
The Guardian - 3 hours 54 sec ago
OpenAI's decision comes after dire warnings about rapidly progressing technology and lawmakers' calls for new rules OpenAI will not go public in 2026, Sam Altman said in a Fortune interview published on Saturday, citing safety concerns over artificial intelligence . "I actually think that, given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public, and we don't feel pressure on that," Altman, OpenAI's CEO, told Fortune . Continue reading...

The Hill - 8 hours 54 min ago
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Saturday that artificial intelligence development must slow down to allow for the implementation of necessary risk prevention safeguards. "We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models," Amodei wrote in a blog post. "Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of...

Newser - 9 hours 1 min ago
The warnings about artificial intelligence have landed with new force on Capitol Hill. After researcher Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic and warned its tech could "kill us all by the end of the decade," lawmakers who had mostly inched around AI for years are asking Democratic Rep. Lori Trahan, who's sponsored...

The Guardian - 10 hours 15 min ago
In a social media post, Dario Amodei proposed a plan including third-party evaluations of AI systems The CEO of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic issued a new appeal on Saturday for the AI industry to "slow down" and offered a three-part plan for doing so, saying that his company would "unilaterally" commit to the first of the steps. In a post on social media, Dario Amodei shared a link to an essay titled We Must Pace the Frontier in which he lays out how Anthropic would...

Wired - 16 hours 1 min ago
Steven Strogatz coauthored a book about how math is moving beyond human understanding. He spoke with WIRED about the seismic impact artificial intelligence has had on his life's work.

Vox - 16 hours 1 min ago
A figurine in front of the logo of the AI safety and research company Anthropic, on February 13, 2026. | Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images Are top artificial intelligence companies racing to create a dangerous technology that could kill many millions of people or even wipe out the human race entirely? Fears like these have long circulated in Silicon Valley and among niche communities obsessed with AI. In fact, several of the top AI companies were founded by leaders who each claimed they would take...

New York Times - 16 hours 58 min ago
A demonstration of Anthropic's Claude Cowork A.I. agent in May. The company's employees have been talking about the risks of artificial intelligence after a colleague, citing dangers, resigned this week.

The Guardian - 18 hours 1 min ago
As OpenAI model cracks Millennium Prize Problem that puzzled experts for decades, many feel shocked at pace of change It was a week that left mathematicians reeling. Hot on the heels of a flurry of cases of artificial intelligence furthering the field , OpenAI declared a major scalp: its latest AI model had cracked a Millennium Prize Problem, a puzzle with a $1m reward that had defied human brains for decades. The achievement bore little resemblance to how mathematical problems normally fall. A...

TechRadar - 19 hours 1 min ago
Epson survey finds 76% of students expect to be able to use AI in their learning Meanwhile, 81% of teachers believe students think AI can do spelling and maths for them Following the introduction of the EU AI Act, schools must have AI literacy training Are students over-relying on artificial intelligence chatbots? That seems to be the opinion of teachers across Europe, where 80% of educators have expressed concern about the pace of AI entry into the classroom. A survey of 3,360 people by Epson discovered...

Newser - 20 hours 11 min ago
A math problem with a $1 million bounty may have just met its match and the solver appears to be artificial intelligence. OpenAI says one of its models not yet available to the public solved the "Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem," reports the New York Times . It's one of the...

The Guardian - 21 hours 1 min ago
Cattle rancher and tech CEO Michael Samadi is convinced these artificial minds are far from just tools. Has he glimpsed digital consciousness or simply been seduced by an algorithm? One afternoon, while relaxing at his 66-acre cattle ranch two hours' drive from Houston, Michael Samadi made a wisecrack that changed the course of his life. Nobody else was around to hear it. Or were they? That turns out to be one of the defining questions of this century, already preoccupying philosophers and some...