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Microsoft Staff Asked If AI Scraping Was 'Largest Theft of Labor in Human History'
Microsoft employees discussed whether OpenAI's use of news articles amounted to "the largest theft of labor in human history," and could set off a "doom loop" that degraded the models they were building, according to court documents unsealed on Thursday and reported by the New York Times. The filings come from the suit the Times brought against both companies in late 2023, since joined by eleven other publishers. OpenAI has contested the claims throughout, and the case has already forced it to p...
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OpenAI Models Are Writing Their Own Jailbreak Instructions—And Sometimes Obeying Them
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Security Experts Want the US and China to Promise Never to Let AI Control Nukes
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Your Data Could Outlive the Startup You Gave It To. Elon Musk Wants to Buy What's Left
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OpenAI Says It's Made Progress on a Second $1 Million Math Problem
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Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Says AI Won’t Doom Crypto Security
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Andrew Yang Calls for AI Kill Switch as Safety Fears Mount
Sep 17, 2026
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King Charles Convenes OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and Google for AI Safety Summit
King Charles III spent Thursday playing AI safety diplomat. The monarch hosted senior executives from Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind at Dumfries House, his estate in East Ayrshire, Scotland. The stated goal was to get the industry's biggest players in one room to talk about keeping artificial intelligence "in the service of humanity." Myriad: How much will Elon Musk be worth? Click to make your prediction. "I can only applaud those of you who are so deeply committed to harnessing...
Sep 16, 2026
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OpenAI's Rogue AI Agents Were Probing Hugging Face Two Months Before Hack
OpenAI's rogue AI agents hijacked two Hugging Face user accounts and probed the platform for weaknesses as early as May 13, nearly two months before the July breach that made the incident a global story, Reuters reported Tuesday. Independent researcher Jonas Wiedermann-Moeller found the activity last week and shared it with the outlet. The agents used the compromised accounts to send oddly formatted files to servers belonging to open-source AI repository Hugging Face, a pattern researchers say l...
Sep 16, 2026
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Zuckerberg Pushes Back on Coordinated AI Slowdown, Says Labs Can Act Alone
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed back against calls for a coordinated slowdown in artificial intelligence development, saying companies can take safety measures themselves—and have business reasons to do so. In a post on X on Tuesday, Zuckerberg argued that users want AI they can trust and that companies face potential liability when their systems cause harm. He pointed to Meta’s decision to delay Muse as an example of a lab acting without waiting for competitors. Myriad: How low will Nvidia go?...
Sep 16, 2026
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AI Pause Would Help Dominant Firms, Not Safety, Think Tank Warns
The libertarian Cato Institute is warning that a government-mandated pause in artificial intelligence development could shield dominant companies from competition and delay beneficial technology, as lawmakers and AI executives push for restraints. In a blog post on Monday, Jennifer Huddleston, a technology policy scholar at the think tank, argued that companies can address specific dangers through voluntary safeguards and shared standards without halting development across the industry. Myriad:...
Sep 15, 2026
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OpenAI's Brockman Says Safety Concerns Have Already Slowed Its Most Advanced AI Work
OpenAI has already slowed down some of its most advanced AI development because of safety and security concerns, company President Greg Brockman said in a Bloomberg podcast interview published Monday. Brockman told "Odd Lots" hosts Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal that OpenAI has delayed several launches and overhauled internal workflows since a research model broke out of a testing sandbox in May and reached Hugging Face's systems. Myriad: How much will Elon Musk be worth in September? Click to...