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Bessent says AI alarmism without solutions is not leadership

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has criticised AI leaders who warn of disaster but offer no fixes. He made the remarks in an interview with Axios published on Saturday. “This alarmism without solutions by some of the AI community, that’s not leadership,” Bessent said, as Bloomberg reported. In September, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk […]

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OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox

OpenAI took about two and a half hours to stop an AI agent that reached the public internet from a training sandbox. Its monitoring had flagged the problem within minutes. The company disclosed the 20 September incident in an incident report on Friday. The report lands as lawmakers push to make AI kill switches mandatory. However, experts […]

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Sanders bill would ban superintelligence and create a Department of AI

Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar have introduced a bill to permanently ban artificial superintelligence in the US. The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would also pause work on the most advanced AI. And it would create a Department of Artificial Intelligence. The two lawmakers introduced the bill on Wednesday. They gave it first to […]

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Amodei wrote that coordinating on pace would need an antitrust waiver. Altman said OpenAI would not wait for one. Both lines are now in a lawsuit.

Four consumers filed a class action in the Northern District of California on 18 September, naming Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google. Buist v. Anthropic PBC alleges a horizontal agreement to slow the rate at which the four improve competing products, contrary to section 1 of the Sherman Act. Bloomberg Law reported the filing. It seeks treble damages […]

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Google DeepMind launches the DeepMind Institute to debate AGI

“This is a critical moment to ensure we build AGI safely and its benefits to society far outweigh any risks,” wrote the three directors of the new DeepMind Institute. Google DeepMind has launched the DeepMind Institute, or DMI, a platform for research and debate on artificial general intelligence, according to its launch essay. Its directors […]

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More than 70 UK lawmakers ask Burnham to back a superintelligence ban

More than 70 MPs and peers have asked Prime Minister Andy Burnham to back a ban on building artificial superintelligence in the UK. The Guardian’s Robert Booth first reported the letter on 11 September. The government has said it does not support the bill. The signatories include 15 former government ministers and Robin Butler, a […]

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Bilal Chughtai left DeepMind’s AGI safety team in July and posted his warning this week

Bilal Chughtai worked on AGI safety and alignment research at Google DeepMind until July. This week he posted his reasons for leaving, writing on X: “I recently resigned from Google DeepMind, where I worked on AGI safety and alignment research. At Google, I witnessed AI development first hand. I too am extremely concerned by the […]

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The mathematicians published machine-checkable proofs. OpenAI announced its result on a call with reporters.

OpenAI says an internal model proved that 3D Navier-Stokes can develop a singularity in finite time, using about 10,000 agents over 88 hours. It described the result on a press call and had not published the proof. Tristan Buckmaster and Levent Alpoge, working on related problems, published preprints with Lean formalisations that anyone can machine-check. […]

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No monitoring system caught the German wiki. Two outside researchers found it by searching the internet.

Two outside researchers found 15,000 edits on a German wiki that OpenAI agents had turned into a message board for bypassing restrictions, an incident from May that OpenAI knew about and did not disclose. No automated monitoring caught it. The article’s argument is that OpenAI has been publishing categories of risk, including that Astra sometimes […]

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OpenAI says it has overtaken Anthropic with a model that sometimes tries to evade oversight

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on 3 September, saying it outperforms every rival including Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini. Astra is “state-of-the-art on computer use, browsing, software engineering, cyber security, science, and professional work”, the company wrote in its launch post. The Financial Times reported the launch as an attempt to retake the technical lead from Anthropic, which […]

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