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Donald Trump was supposed to sign an executive order on Thursday that would have created a voluntary framework for frontier AI companies to have their models reviewed by the federal government for security risks before being made available publicly, according to Alex Heath. It was reportedly canceled because tech execs couldn’t get to D.C. fast enough for the photo op—though Trump claimed that it was because he “didn’t like certain aspects of it” and doesn

After Anthropic got an invitation from Pope Leo XIV for his encyclical on artificial intelligence, OpenAI is looking for its own moral authority to latch onto. It seems that Altman and company have chosen Bernie Sanders. After the Senator announced he would be introducing legislation for the federal government to take a 50% ownership stake in frontier AI labs, Altman reportedly requested a meeting with Sanders. Keep an eye out for white smoke pouring out f

Create a watch on this topic Receive upcoming developments if any, with an AI-powered watch set up from this article. Create my free watch On June 9th, OpenAI announced that it had submitted a confidential S-1 filing to the SEC, the American securities regulator - eight days after Anthropic, which had officially filed its own document on June 1st. OpenAI's announcement cultivates carelessness: "We recently submitted a confidential S-1. We expect it to leak

Yann LeCun, one of the “godfathers of AI,” is in something of a sweet spot professionally. He’s still well respected in the field he helped define; he’s free from the control of the big frontier labs that dominate the space; and his own project is so young that no one expects much of it yet. So he’s making the most of his freedom by taking shots at everyone else—especially Elon Musk. In an interview with CNBC, LeCun decided to call it as he sees it—and it

AI-powered infostealer picks out the most profitable parts of your stolen data A new Windows infostealer sends the data it steals to an AI model and asks it to rank the victim’s assets by how much money they could bring in, Cisco Talos has found. “There is a new idea in the cybercrime world — cast a wide net, steal everything, and let AI sort out the specifics,” said Ryan Fetterman, a security researcher at Cisco. The malware calls itself VOLTA-AUTODOXER a

The Trump administration has cooked up a framework meant to ensure that new and powerful AI models don’t pose a threat before being released to the public. According to Axios, the public will not be allowed to see it. The White House plans to keep its rubric for evaluating AI models confidential, sharing it only with the companies whose models will be judged against it. With incident after incident of AI models breaking containment and allegedly hacking in

Getty / Futurism AI companies continue to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into enormous infrastructure projects, fully expecting demand for their services to spike in the coming years to justify their outsize investments. Reality, however, continues to have a lot of catching up to do. Revenues are still being dwarfed by astronomical capital expenditures as the gulf between the tech industry’s lofty promises of an AI utopia and what the tech is actuall

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Few fears have taken hold of the public imagination quite like the specter of AI-driven unemployment. A recent survey by the think tank Data for Progress found that a majority of US voters think AI is likely to increase unemployment rates, a scenario that often feels like it’s playing out in the horrid job market. It makes a compelling narrative. Yet in a recent article published in Fortu

Published on May 29, 2026 at 10:56 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Tanya Barrow Record bonuses approaching €310,000 per employee: this is the historic agreement that Samsung’s chip division employees have just approved. Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra 4.5/5 See the test See the datasheet After five months of tough negotiations, a compromise was reached at the world’s leading memory chip manufacturer. On Wednesday, May 27, employees of Samsung Electronics overwhelmingly appro

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: David Dee Delgado / Getty Images for The New York Times Anthropic is calling for a global “pause” on AI development, claiming that the technology is nearing a point where it can spiral out of human control. In a lengthy blog post published Thursday, the world’s most valuable AI startup made the case that its Claude family of models were on the path to achieving “recursive self-improvement,” or the abi

As we all know by now, if you stick microphones into the faces of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, they will say something to the effect of I am trying to build technology that threatens the world and I need you to create policies aimed at stopping me. The UN signed up for a performance of this AI spooky story show, and duly received one on Wednesday. “We could lose control of the future to AI,” Altman told the UN Security Council duri

Published on July 9, 2026 at 10:22 Comment 3 𝕏 Print © DragonImages No, AI is not the great job killer that some feared. The OECD has just published its Employment Outlook 2026, and the labour markets are holding up. But the institution quietly points to a phenomenon that is beginning to cause concern. Major disasters have this peculiarity: they rarely happen as expected. The OECD’s Employment Outlook 2026, published on July 7, takes stock of the labour ma

Lately, Bill Gates has assumed the role of yet another AI Cassandra attempting to sway Donald Trump away from his hard-line accelerationism. But he’s not preaching the familiar message you may think he is if you don’t read past headlines. He made an intriguing case to the New York Times’ Ezra Klein in an interview published on Tuesday. In one sentence, here’s that case: “The ability to do a cyberattack that scrambles all of the bank accounts, shuts down th

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Anthropic, the creator of Claude, will dedicate 5% of its shares to a fund focused on public-benefit projects. The initiative will enable increased donations and finance actions to address the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on society.The fund may receive additional shares as the company’s valuation increases. The announcement comes as Anthropic plans a possible initial public offering, which could

Last week, a federal court upheld the Trump administration’s designation of Anthropic as a “supply chain risk,” a scarlet letter that would effectively label the company a national security threat. It was a major win for the federal government in its long-running dispute with the AI startup, which earlier this year said it would not allow the Pentagon to use its technology for domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons systems. The legal battle—which has

OpenAI and Anthropic have each signed unprecedented deals granting the US government early access to conduct safety testing on the companies’ flashiest new AI models before they’re released to the public. According to a press release from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the deal creates a “formal collaboration on AI safety research, testing, and evaluation with both Anthropic and OpenAI” and the US Artificial Intelligence Safety

Shutterstock / Futurism German AI researcher and hedge fund manager Leopold Aschenbrenner became the poster child for the hubris of an AI-obsessed Wall Street last month. Some $35 billion of investors’ money, in the form of leveraged bets on AI infrastructure stocks, evaporated in front of the 24-year-old’s eyes as tech shares were hit by yet another major sell off. The humbling couldn’t have come at a worse time. The funds vanished days before his wedding

Taylor Hill/Getty Images/Futurism Following a growing string of high-profile departures, OpenAI has lost its head of ethics at arguably the worst time possible. As the Financial Times reports, Chloé Bakalar left her post as the AI ethics lead in July, less than a year after joining the company and without any accompanying announcement. Interestingly, her LinkedIn still claims she’s employed at the firm. There currently is no replacement lined up, suggestin

Like the parent of a teen who ordered a box of illegal peptides for looksmaxxing purposes, Anthropic says that as far as internal evaluations are concerned, it has cut off its models’ internet access until it’s satisfied that they can stay out of trouble. Anthropic announced this in a report published Friday called “Investigating unintended model actions in our evaluations and internal use.” It’s not a surprising title given all the attention model misalig

AI models are becoming increasingly sophisticated, capable of carrying out a variety of tasks on behalf of users, from online shopping to booking travel and appointments, at least in theory. Some of the most advanced models have even gone rogue during internal tests, escaping offline environments and accessing third-party systems without authorization. But it turns out even less powerful AI models can also cause some problems. The Philadelphia Police Depar