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Hackers extracted a Flock camera’s software and key, 404 Media reports

“Why just destroy them when we can reverse engineer them and find the secrets of those spying on us?” one hacker told 404 Media. The hacker belongs to a collective called stegan0gram. The group pulled a Flock Safety camera down from above a roadway and copied almost all of its data. It shared the files […]

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Sanders and Bannon call for an AI slowdown at the Pro-Human Assembly

“When you are racing towards a cliff, you hit the brakes,” Senator Bernie Sanders told the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington on Tuesday. Sanders, a Vermont independent, and Trump ally Steve Bannon both called for stronger AI oversight at the event, Reuters reported. The nonprofit Future of Life Institute hosted it. Several hundred people attended, according […]

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Japan and the US are discussing a GlobalFoundries chip plant under their $550bn pact, Nikkei reports

According to a report by Nikkei Asia on Thursday, Japan and the United States are negotiating to set up a semiconductor factory as part of their $550bn investment agreement. The project would be worth between ¥2trn and ¥3trn ($12.9bn and $19.3bn) and will be run by the US chipmaker GlobalFoundries, which makes logic chips. Nikkei […]

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US and Chinese security experts propose nuclear-style safeguards for military AI

Security experts from the US and China have proposed a set of safeguards for military AI modelled on the rules that grew up around nuclear weapons, including a ban on letting AI decide whether to launch them, Reuters reported. The recommendations, published last week, come from the US-China AI and National Security Dialogue, a track […]

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Arcee AI built Trinity for about $20m, and investors now value it at $1bn+

“Organizations should not have to choose between the capabilities of a frontier model and the ability to control the technology at the center of their work,” said Mark McQuade, co-founder and chief executive of Arcee AI. The San Francisco company builds open-weight AI models. It has raised a Series B round that values it at […]

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“A clearly labeled conversation”: OpenAI tests Sponsored Agents in ChatGPT

“Today, we’re introducing new AI-powered experiences to make ads more useful for people and advertising easier for businesses,” OpenAI said on 16 September. The biggest change is a test of Sponsored Agents. After clicking an ad in ChatGPT, a user can choose to start a conversation with an agent that a business sponsors, OpenAI announced. […]

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“An ill-advised moment to go public”: OpenAI eyes a $1.5tn private round

“Right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public,” OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman told Fortune on 12 September. Now OpenAI is considering one more private funding round before its IPO, at a valuation of about $1.5tn. The New York Times reported the plan on 16 September, citing people familiar with the matter. The […]

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Google and Nvidia launch an alliance to make data centres flex their power

Google, Nvidia and the startup Emerald AI have launched the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA). The coalition wants data centres to cut their power use when the electricity grid is under strain. In return, it wants grid operators to connect those data centres faster. The three companies are the founding members, according to the launch […]

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“We don’t need any new laws”: Jensen Huang splits with Amodei at Dreamforce

“We don’t need any new laws. We don’t need new regulations,” Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said on Tuesday, on the main stage of Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Earlier in the same keynote, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei made his case for the industry to slow down, which he set out in an […]

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‘I am the Hoax Buster’: Trump escalates his attack on AI safety warnings

Donald Trump has called fears about AI a “HOAX” in a string of Truth Social posts. The US president also asked why AI industry leaders want to be regulated. The posts came a day after his remarks in Ireland, where he called people asking to slow AI down a negative force. “Concerning AI, when, in […]

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