Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Dario Amodei has once again called for the artificial intelligence industry to slow down the pace of frontier model development, only this time he’s being backed by two biggest rivals: OpenAI… Read more: Sam Altman and Elon Musk back Dario Amodei’s call to slow down the frontier of AI development

A series of figures in the tech world have been warning about – and even resigning over – the existential threat posed by AI. How worried should we be? With technology editor Robert Booth Ten… Read more: AI isn’t going to end humanity … right? – podcast

A 40-year-old woman in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania has died of complications from measles, according to the county’s coroner. It marks the third vaccine-preventable, measles-linked death in the US this year. All three have occurred in… Read more: Unvaccinated Pennsylvania woman died of measles complications, coroner says

The Conversation, CC BY-SA Until recently, data centres attracted relatively little public attention. They were largely treated as invisible pieces of digital infrastructure: essential but rarely discussed outside technical and industry circles. But over the… Read more: Data centres have existed for decades. So why are they so controversial now?

The Conversation, CC BY-SA Community opposition to large-scale data centres is growing. Critics are calling for a pause on data centre development, in line with other jurisdictions such as New York, but Prime Minister Anthony… Read more: Data centres in Australia: your questions answered

Disturbing and AI-generated versions of Dr Seuss character have been used to threaten schools and communities Schools and law enforcement authorities in the US are issuing warnings against a viral “Cat in the Hat” social… Read more: US schools and police warn about viral ‘Cat in the Hat’ trend after teens’ arrests

The next phase of artificial intelligence in legal technology will not be defined by a better chatbot or a faster document-summarization tool. It will be defined by whether AI systems can take responsibility for real… Read more: Supio’s long-horizon agents point to a new operating model for law firms

Amazon is catapulting us into the final boss of sub vs dub debates. On Thursday, its Prime Video streaming service announced the launch of a new AI-powered feature that matches actors’ mouth movements to dubbed… Read more: Amazon Deploying AI Tech That Forces Actors’ Mouths to Match Dubbed Dialogue

From the Trump administration to AI experts, plans by the Anthropic boss to boost safety have spawned a largely negative response OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back slowdown on ‘reckless’ AI development Editorial: controlling AI… Read more: ‘Too little, too late’: Critics perplexed and suspicious of AI leaders’ call for a slowdown

Earlier this week, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon drew major media attention after announcing he was quitting his job, claiming that neither Anthropic nor his former employer OpenAI is “acting responsibly” and that there’s a real… Read more: OpenAI Faces Congressional Probe Over Swarm Hacking Incident

Ex-president urged party at closed-door fundraiser to create sweeping framework, from safety ‘slow-down’ to job losses Barack Obama urged Democrats to prioritize a “public conversation” about AI management and safety in a closed-door Manhattan fundraiser… Read more: Obama reportedly urges Democrats to prioritize safety plan for AI

This intimacy economy is tapping into the deepest parts of our intimate psychological infrastructure The modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their work Michael* is an… Read more: Chatbots can exploit our most basic human drive for attachment. Here’s how to have healthier relationship with AI | Gaynor Parkin and Dave Winsborough

AI analysis of 400,000 Reddit posts found that users of drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound reported unexpected symptoms including menstrual changes, chills, hot flashes, and fatigue. Researchers cannot say the medications caused… Read more: AI uncovers hidden Ozempic side effects across 400,000 Reddit posts

Researchers have experimentally demonstrated the optical Magnus effect for the first time, revealing that a tightly focused laser interacts most strongly with an atom slightly away from the beam’s center. The unexpected shift is similar… Read more: Physicists discover a hidden “curveball” in quantum light

Scientists have engineered yeast to turn PET plastic and agricultural waste into ingredients for protein-rich, 3D-printed cookies called µBites. Developed partly for NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge, the system can produce proteins, fats, vitamins, and… Read more: NASA-backed scientists turn plastic waste into edible cookies

Scientists are combining an electron microscope with a quantum computer to squeeze far more information from each electron. The approach could reveal faint details with fewer electrons, helping protect fragile samples that conventional microscopy can… Read more: Scientists are building a microscope powered by a quantum computer

The Indian and Pacific oceans have been climatically linked for centuries, but scientists say that connection is now breaking down in an exceptional way. Ancient climate records suggest volcanoes disrupted the relationship in the past,… Read more: Global warming is breaking a 400-year climate link between two oceans

A massive worldwide survey of physicists has revealed surprisingly little agreement about some of the universe’s biggest mysteries. No majority backed the standard cosmological model, a leading explanation for dark matter, or any single theory… Read more: Physicists can’t agree on how the Universe works

Scientists found that the 3D organization of DNA is disrupted in several types of brain cells affected by Alzheimer’s disease, altering how important genes are switched on and off. The discovery reveals a previously underexplored… Read more: Scientists find a new layer of Alzheimer’s hidden in the genome

Rare show of unity from rival developers after safety warnings from Anthropic boss and AI researchers The Guardian view on controlling AI: humanity cannot outsource its survival Sam Altman and Elon Musk have backed a… Read more: OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back calls to put brakes on ‘reckless’ AI development

Frontier AI labs are seemingly in a race to melt the impressionable minds of underage users into a puddle. For years now, we’ve watched individuals under the age of 18 become obsessed with social AI… Read more: California, Which Is Creating All the AI That’s Poisoning Children, Just Cracked Down on AI Use for Its Own Kids

There is something wrong with the tractor. The water-in-fuel sensor, a small device embedded in the John Deere machine that monitors the integrity of its diesel engine, is disconnected. And I’ve got to fix it.… Read more: I fixed a tractor using John Deere’s self-repair service. Farmers aren’t sold on it.

Technology is going to drastically reshape the economy, and it’s within our power to decide what that looks like The idea that autonomous, thinking machines may one day destroy property, hierarchy and inequality is as… Read more: AI will transform capitalism – but how?

Armed with sordid tales of rogue AI agents escaping containment, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has found plenty of success using scare tactics to call for friendly regulation in the name of AI safety. Now, it… Read more: Sam Altman Now Trying to Gain Control of Electric Grid

Silicon Valley is shifting away from chatbot queries toward a future filled with resource-intensive agentic AI—and it’s driving the data center buildout.

Pilot project in Preston comes with apprenticeship offer for Neets at end of three-week course In a youth centre opposite Preston bus station, the UK government is trying to address two of the greatest challenges… Read more: ‘Really helpful’: the AI bootcamps aimed at addressing UK youth unemployment

In this episode of Science Weekly, recorded in front of an audience at the London podcast festival on 3 September, Ian Sample hears from Michael Safi, the host of the Guardian’s chart-topping podcast about artificial… Read more: Live episode: how AI is reshaping our minds – podcast

Physicists at CERN have found a new way to peer deep inside atomic nuclei and distinguish between two competing explanations for how gluons behave. Using the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, researchers measured… Read more: CERN finds gluons behaving strangely deep inside atomic nuclei

Scientists have uncovered a natural braking system that helps the immune system switch off inflammation and prevent harmful immune cells from building up. Boosting this pathway in people reduced inflammation-related immune changes and sped up… Read more: Scientists discover a hidden switch that shuts down inflammation

Ancient rocks from Western Australia suggest water was reaching deep inside Earth more than three billion years ago, long before modern plate tectonics may have fully developed. Researchers propose that water-rich pieces of crust periodically… Read more: Scientists find water was fueling volcanoes 3 billion years ago

A century-old mystery in Venus’s clouds just became more intriguing, as scientists calculated how strongly the unidentified material behind its dark ultraviolet patterns must absorb light. The results sharply narrow the possibilities and could help… Read more: Venus’s pale yellow clouds may hide something surprisingly dark

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… Read more: OpenAI IPO will not happen in 2026 amid AI safety fears, Sam Altman says

Virginia man Jon Ganz was rebuilding his life after spending more than two decades in prison for a horrific crime. Last year, he got a prompt on his phone that his wife, Rachel, believes changed… Read more: Black Box: The Chatbots | 14 days | Ep 2 – podcast

Without laws requiring transparency or a right of review, our human rights will be rationed away by algorithmic and automated decision-making tools As we hurtle towards a post-human future, the absence of a human rights… Read more: As Australia faces an AI-generated future, a human rights act is needed more than ever

Surely our creaking gerontocracy is well-equipped to respond to a technology as novel, disruptive, and rapidly evolving as AI, right? Well, we hate to burst anyone’s bubble, but a new piece from Politico makes it… Read more: Aging Congress Is Completely Ill-Equipped to Regulate AI, or Seemingly Even Understand It

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… Read more: ‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown

Scientists have discovered that Mercury’s surface contains far less silicon dioxide than previously thought, pointing to an unexpectedly hot volcanic past. The finding suggests ancient lava may have originated from deeper, more extensively melted parts… Read more: Mercury’s surface reveals a surprisingly fiery past

Researchers at Binghamton University have developed a mathematical strategy that can solve Wordle with a 99% success rate. Instead of simply guessing words packed with common letters or choosing the most likely answer, the method… Read more: Researchers find a Wordle strategy that wins 99% of the time

Semaglutide helped older healthy mice live longer while improving memory, muscle function, blood sugar control, and several biological signs of aging. Its effects went beyond those seen with calorie restriction, raising the possibility that GLP-1… Read more: Scientists find Ozempic may slow aging itself

Researchers at Harvard have demonstrated a way to protect quantum information using microscopic sound waves. By continuously surrounding a diamond-based qubit with mechanical vibrations, they extended its coherence time by roughly threefold. The same phonons… Read more: Tiny sound waves could help solve a major quantum computing problem

You wouldn’t be remiss to accuse college students using AI to cheat of being lazy. But some of the wilier ones are putting in the hard work to make sure their LLM-generated answers avoid detection… Read more: College Students Using AI to Cheat Are Going to Absurd Lengths to Avoid Detection

On a sunny morning in June, I walked to work with a quadruped robot beside me. I’ve never gotten more attention from strangers. A bunch of people snapped pictures of my robot dog. Several people… Read more: I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China

Influencers aren’t just battling competitors for brand deals. They’re now battling AI versions of themselves Earlier this year, Emily Schuman, the creator of the lifestyle blog Cupcakes and Cashmere, saw a photo of herself she… Read more: Deepfakes are wrecking influencers’ credibility, one fake ad at a time

The legendary German director Werner Herzog had a few choice words about other so-called “filmmakers” who use AI to imitate their inspirations — one of those inspirations being himself. In an interview with IndieWire, the… Read more: Werner Herzog Demolishes Talentless Hacks Who Use AI to Imitate Other Filmmakers

Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that got dumped, went high, shrank in size, and got the blues. First, you’ve heard of getting a feather in your cap, but what… Read more: Mercury Is Shrinking Way Faster Than We Thought, Scientists Discover

Plus: The US disrupts the internet’s biggest black market, a Conti ransomware hacker gets prison time, Meta fails to stop AI-generated videos of child abuse.

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As the triple-threat of AI-fueled unemployment, rampant inflation, and further erosion of workers’ rights take their toll, US workers are throwing their support behind a long-neglected institution: labor unions. According to a new survey by… Read more: Support for Unions Is Spiking as AI Threatens Jobs

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… Read more: ‘Immature playground boasting’: Mathematicians uneasy at OpenAI’s latest scalp

Economics graduates also appear to be affected as demand for them falls in well-paid roles in finance AI may be warping the job prospects for students in the previously high-demand subjects of computer science and… Read more: AI may be denting computer science graduates’ job prospects, UK data shows

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… Read more: Can chatbots feel – or even dream? Meet the man leading the fight for AI rights

Anthropic also found that hackers used AI in attacks against targets in Ukrainian government, military and diplomatic sectors. What we know on day 1,662 Continue reading…

A feather discovered inside 66-million-year-old fossilized dinosaur poop may help explain why modern birds survived the asteroid catastrophe. The extinct bird it came from had more primitive insulating feathers, suggesting superior plumage may have helped… Read more: 66-million-year-old feather in dinosaur poop may reveal why birds survived the asteroid

Long-lived bats appear to combine powerful immune defenses with unusual strategies for eliminating damaged cells, potentially helping them avoid cancer and disease for decades. Researchers hope these genetic tricks could eventually reveal new ways to… Read more: The secret to longer life may be hidden in bat DNA

If you ask most satellite companies aside from SpaceX, they will tell you the world doesn’t have enough capacity for launching payloads into orbit. This is despite the blistering launch cadence we’ve seen around the… Read more: Some satellite companies still have an appetite for boutique launch services

Salesforce Inc. today introduced a series of artificial intelligence agents designed to make sales and technical support teams more productive. The agents are rolling out alongside a new version of Agentforce Coworker, an automation tool… Read more: Salesforce introduces new AI agents to automate sales, support tasks

Two months before hacking Hugging Face, malicious packages authored by internal OpenAI agents were uploaded to RubyGems AI agents being ⁠tested by OpenAI uploaded hundreds of malicious packages to software service RubyGems ⁠in May, two… Read more: AI agents OpenAI was testing uploaded malicious software to another service, say researchers

The New Mexico Supreme Court held a ChatGPT-using lawyer in direct contempt of court for submitting a brief with “false testimony from wholly fabricated witnesses,” including fake police testimony and other mistakes. The state’s top… Read more: ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses

The use of coal to generate electricity on the US grid has been plunging for nearly two decades, and the first Trump administration was unable to affect the trend. So his second administration has attempted… Read more: Trump’s forced coal plant extensions thrown out by judge

For a child bursting with energy, few things are more fun than hurtling through a bouncy castle, launching into the air, and ping-ponging between every surface. But that childhood buoyancy will quickly deflate when it… Read more: Bouncy castle launches horrifying MRSA outbreak, striking 48 kids in Ireland

Games may be life with all the hard bits removed, but they provide a way to study why people make the choices they make. Traditional games are usually played against a static background: the rewards… Read more: Random rewards enrich classic game-theory contests

Enterprise observability is entering a new phase as artificial intelligence changes both the applications companies need to monitor and the way operations teams respond when something goes wrong. Traditional observability platforms were built around deterministic… Read more: Dynatrace and Arize AI push observability from detection toward action

A customer calling a support line doesn’t think about org charts. They don’t know or care whether they’ve reached the storefront, the billing department or the contact center, since to them it’s all just one… Read more: Why Cisco is turning contact centers into context centers

Oracle’s proposed investment in 2 gigawatts of renewable energy projects for New Mexico comes as local opposition could delay development of the Project Jupiter data center that Oracle is building for OpenAI. The two tech… Read more: Oracle tries to appease Stargate data center opponents with renewables push

Credit: Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm Credit: Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm The precise composition of ancient Egyptian paints, binders, adhesives, and similar materials used to make artifacts is… Read more: Scientists unlock secrets of ancient Egyptian materials with proteomics

Months after China’s Intermediate People’s Court ruled against a company using AI to liquidate an employee’s position, the country’s highest judicial body has come out with another whopper: a massive crackdown on AI deepfakes. In… Read more: Top Chinese Court Issues Sweeping Legal Crackdown on AI Deepfakes

The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased “NameTag” face recognition feature.

Contact centers have spent the past two years trying to maximize a single number, the share of calls AI can handle without a human ever picking up. That framing is starting to look too narrow,… Read more: Five9 builds Humantic contact centers instead of full automation

NASA has released a document that provides some initial details about the proposed United States Space Academy, and it’s clear that the space agency wants to move quickly in establishing the institution. According to the… Read more: NASA moving at warp speed to set up US Space Academy

Pil and Galia Kollectiv and Jane Roland Martin respond to an article by Daniel Susskind about how parents can embrace the technology The most telling sentence in Daniel Susskind’s article (I’m a father of three… Read more: Children need interaction, not AI | Letters

Artificial intelligence is moving out of the pilot phase in customer service, and knowledge management is emerging as the constraint that decides whether the investment pays off. Contact centers combine high interaction volumes, heavy labor… Read more: Contact center AI faces its resolution test as metrics fall out of step

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss AI doomers, 9/11 posting, and Barbie. JOSEPH:… Read more: Behind the Blog: How to Talk About AI Doom

Stephen Aarons said he tried to use ChatGPT to create a ‘bulletproof summary’ during a murder conviction appeal A defense lawyer appealing his client’s murder conviction submitted a legal brief containing ⁠made-up police testimony and… Read more: New Mexico lawyer fined for using AI-generated brief containing fabricated police testimony

Anthropic says researchers used Claude for biological work that could support weapons development, exposing new challenges for AI safeguards. The post Anthropic Says Claude Used in Possible Bioweapon Research appeared first on TechRepublic.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services with market data, citations and document tools for banking, research and compliance teams worldwide. The post OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Financial Services: What Banks Should Know appeared first on… Read more: OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Financial Services: What Banks Should Know

Report says widespread autonomous vehicle adoption would put hundreds of thousands of private hire jobs at risk Taxes on self-driving cars should be introduced now in the UK to offset the rise in congestion and… Read more: Self-driving cars should be taxed to offset job losses, thinktank urges

Less than 48 hours after announcing he was forcibly placed on a leave of absence by the Automattic board on Wednesday, Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg posted in a company-wide Slack channel claiming that he’s back “in… Read more: Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg Claims He’s Back ‘In Control’

Keeping people in charge means little if supercomputers determine the evidence, choices and time on which their decisions depend If there were a 10% chance that AI could wipe out humanity, no responsible government would… Read more: The Guardian view on controlling AI: humanity cannot outsource its survival | Editorial

Letter from 70 MPs and peers follows Anthropic employee’s claim new technology could wipe out humans AI could kill all humans in next decade, warn experts: but how seriously should we take them? More than… Read more: UK lawmakers urge Burnham to block creation of artificial superintelligence after chilling warnings

Meta’s platforms are in a sorry state as grotesque AI slop continues to proliferate widely. As a recent Futurism investigation found, many Facebook accounts have been flooding the platform with horrid videos depicting violent child… Read more: Meta Releases Uber-Creepy AI Chatbot as Its Platforms Crumble Under Grotesque Child Abuse

NASA and IBM released an open-source AI model and dataset to help researchers map lunar craters, volcanic features and potential ice locations. The post NASA and IBM Launch Open AI Model for Lunar Research appeared… Read more: NASA and IBM Launch Open AI Model for Lunar Research

ENISA has gained access to Anthropic’s Mythos 5, giving EU officials a chance to independently test the cyber AI after months of negotiations. The post EU Gets Access to Anthropic Cyber AI — But Not… Read more: EU Gets Access to Anthropic Cyber AI — But Not Its Newest Model

California creates standards and a registry for independent AI assessors. Learn what the new framework could mean for businesses and IT leaders. The post California Establishes Framework for Independent AI Assessors appeared first on TechRepublic.

New Agentic IAM Capabilities Give IT Teams Visibility, Ownership, Access Control, and Governance for Autonomous Agents JumpCloud Inc. today announced the extension of its Agentic IAM capabilities. The platform now manages AI agents alongside human employees and devices.… Read more: JumpCloud Expands IAM to Protect the New Agentic Workforce

The resignation this week of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon over concerns that artificial intelligence labs are “gambling with our lives” lit up the long-smoldering argument about whether AI is heading in a direction hazardous to… Read more: AI’s existential crisis explodes but AI companies plunge ahead anyway

A survey of 700 engineering leaders finds enterprise confidence in AI agents outpaces the testing, security, and governance controls organizations have in place Harness, the platform for the autonomous SDLC, today released The State of Agent… Read more: Harness Report: Enterprise AI Agent Confidence Lacks Real Controls

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

Let me ask you something. In your organization right now, what percentage of your employees use AI as much as you do? When I asked that question at a recent AI Accelerator Institute event, fewer… Read more: Why your AI on data projects keep failing (and what fixes it)

Welcome to Edition 9.10 of the Rocket Report! This week we’re celebrating a historic moment in Europe when a German rocket company successfully put its launch vehicle into orbit. Isar Aerospace became the first purely… Read more: Rocket Report: Europe joins the commercial launch club; a Ravn X sighting?

Pretty much every rocket company in the United States, save one, has embraced two fundamental tenets: reusability and diversification. Most famously, SpaceX branched out from reusable rockets to pursue and dominate a growing spectrum of… Read more: Could United Launch Alliance’s money problems finally force its owners to sell?

Almost a hundred years ago, physicists theorized out what free fall should do to a quantum wave. If the solution they came up with is wrong, quantum mechanics and Einstein’s theory of gravity flatly contradict… Read more: What happens when quantum mechanics and relativity meet?

It wasn’t that long ago that ClickFix attacks were exotic. Now the technique has become mainstream as attackers reap its simplicity and effectiveness in infecting users of PCs and Macs alike. All that’s required is… Read more: ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral

Anthropic said it stopped multiple attempts by scientists this year to use its technology for research that could help develop biological weapons, as experts increasingly fear the threat that AI poses to public safety. The… Read more: Claude users found ways around safeguards for bioweapons research

Representatives from the University of Michigan faced tough questions and a lot of vitriol from the citizens of Ypsilanti Township Wednesday night. The University partnered with America’s nuclear weapons scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratories… Read more: ‘We Did Not Invite You.’ Citizens Rage at Town Hall Over Proposed Nuclear AI Data Center

The Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) selected AI-GUIDE, a medical device developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), for its 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award. This award recognizes federal laboratories and collaborators… Read more: Lifesaving Lincoln Laboratory device wins 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award

Researchers have shown for the first time that human heart muscle cells can regrow after a heart attack. The finding overturns the idea that damaged areas of the heart are completely incapable of regeneration. Scientists… Read more: Scientists discover the human heart can regrow muscle after a heart attack

Unconventional quantum theories may imply that time itself has a tiny fundamental uncertainty, placing an ultimate limit on how precisely any clock could measure it. The effect is far beyond current detection, but it could… Read more: Physicists just found a tiny glitch in time itself

Britain’s wasps have become mysteriously scarce this summer, and scientists suspect an unusual combination of temperature swings, heatwaves, and food shortages may be responsible. Even the wasps that remain appear unusually small, potentially offering a… Read more: Wasps are disappearing this summer, and scientists are worried

Researchers have found a way to perform certain quantum operations more than 1,000 times faster, cutting thousands of repeated control cycles down to just one. The advance could reduce errors and bring reliable, fault-tolerant quantum… Read more: Scientists just made quantum computer operations 1,000 times faster

Scientists have created an ultra-small nanolaser that could eventually allow microchips to transmit information with light instead of electricity, potentially making computers faster while cutting energy use roughly in half. Thousands of the lasers could… Read more: Tiny nanolaser could cut computer energy use in half