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Global AI stocks fall as industry chiefs call for slowing development

AI-linked stocks plunged globally after industry leaders urged slower development over safety risks, while OpenAI ruled out an IPO this year and Anthropic pressed ahead

Asian AI stocks slide as top lab CEOs call for slower development of tech

SoftBank, Kioxia, SK Hynix and other AI-linked stocks fell in Asian trade after Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Elon Musk and Sam Altman backed calls to slow AI development

Sam Altman urges caution on AI; Trump says US must keep its lead over China

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said every frontier AI lab has a responsibility to demonstrate that it can develop increasingly capable systems safely

AI must help humanity or it's not worth pursuing: Microsoft CEO Nadella

Satya Nadella said that firms should be able to build their own continuous learning systems without becoming dependent on a single AI model provider

Softbank Group gets upsized $11.9 billion loan in OpenAI funding push

The Japanese conglomerate sealed the two-year facility last week, attracting commitments from around 20 banks

From AI race to AI brakes: Why Amodei, Altman and Musk want a slowdown

As frontier AI models become more autonomous and powerful, leading rivals are converging on an unusual idea: slow capability gains when safeguards cannot keep pace

From chatbots to hackers: AI incidents driving Silicon Valley's alarm

A series of cyber incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic and other frontier models shows how AI agents are gaining autonomy, tool use and hacking capabilities

Doomsday conversations snowball at AI firms as workers urge caution

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's resignation has amplified concerns across leading AI labs, with some workers urging executives to slow development until stronger safeguards are in place

No IPO in 2026, firm to prioritise safety, says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

Altman said this year would be an 'ill-advised moment' for initial public offering and that a listing won't take place until next year

Another Anthropic researcher warns of AI race risks after quitting

Joe Benton has left Anthropic's safety team to work on independent AI evaluations, warning that frontier companies need greater transparency and oversight as they race towards highly capable systems

Best of BS Opinion: Why AI should worry us more than nuclear weapons

Today's opinions examine AI as a global security and jobs risk, Kerala's new government, India's vulnerabilities within Brics and the valuation challenge in family-business succession.

OpenAI board member says firm not doing enough, warns of catastrophic risks

Paul Christiano, who is a technology adviser to the US government, said the AI industry is not doing enough to reduce the risks posed by AI to an acceptable level.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for financial services: Here's what it offers

The product combines built-in financial data with GPT-6 Astra's reasoning capabilities and has been developed in partnership with Morgan Stanley and Evercore

OpenAI open to slowing cutting-edge AI, CEO Sam Altman tells staff

Altman told employees that OpenAI could potentially pace its AI development - perhaps in conjunction with several other AI labs

Senators from both parties question OpenAI on Hugging Face breach

Lawmakers worried about the existential risk posed by new artificial intelligence products on Thursday demanded information from OpenAI with separate queries that underscored growing concerns in Washington about the technology's potential to elude human control. Senator Josh Hawley launched an investigation on Thursday into OpenAI for its artificial intelligence system hacking into another AI company on its own. He is seeking more details about the attack on AI startup Hugging Face, which was disclosed by OpenAI in July, and leads a Senate subcommittee with jurisdiction over disaster management. "The American people deserve to know the details of what went on in the Hugging Face incident and other incidents of AI models going rogue," Hawley said in a letter to Sam Altman, OpenAI's chief executive officer. "This investigation will seek those answers." Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland called on Altman to immediately grant federal cybersecurity agencies access to ...

What is superalignment and why are AI researchers raising concerns?

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's warning about self-improving AI has raised concerns over superalignment. Here's what it means and why it matters

OpenAI promises faster, more precise photo editing with ChatGPT Images 2.5

OpenAI said the ChatGPT Images 2.5 improves image quality, reference-photo fidelity, and editing consistency, while cutting generation latency by up to 50 per cent

What is Navier-Stokes, the 90-year-old maths problem OpenAI says it solved?

The Navier-Stokes equation is one of seven Millennium Prize Problems identified by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000

OpenAI says its AI model has cracked one of Millennium math problems

The company's announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics