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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has repeatedly claimed that new regulatory laws aren't needed to keep the AI industry in check.

The Least Worried Man in AI Has a Plan to Rein in Rogue Agents

Nvidia is promoting its new Agent Safety Platform as a new industry standard for AI security, while its CEO waves aside calls for regulation.

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Many of Silicon Valley's most influential leaders have predicted that machines will eventually replace humanity as we know it.

In Silicon Valley, the End of Humanity Has Always Been Part of the Plan

Idealistic tech executives believe superintelligent machines will inevitably arrive—and that when they do, homo sapiens must step out of the way.

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Federal Appeals Court Backs Pentagon’s Anthropic Blacklisting

The government acted lawfully when it labeled the AI company a supply chain risk, the judges wrote in a 2-1 decision.

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Microsoft's new Copilot is “a new OS for work,” according to CEO Satya Nadella.

Microsoft Thinks It’s Finally Figured Out Copilot This Time

The company debuted its AI “super app” today, following a litany of short-lived rebrands.

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Flock Safety reportedly operates over 120,000 ALPRs across the United States.

Five Indianapolis Cops Charged With Misusing Flock Cameras, Including One Case of Stalking

Four of the officers have been suspended and recommended for termination.

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OpenAI is competing with other frontier labs, like Anthropic, to deliver powerful AI capabilities at a manageable cost.

OpenAI Releases New GPT-6 Sol and Luna Models, Sells Them as Mini-Astras

Cost-effectiveness is becoming the most important AI benchmark.

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay earlier this month urging frontier AI companies to "pace" development in order to prevent the technology from escaping human control.

Ten Days After CEO Calls for a Slowdown, Anthropic Is Back With Another AI Model

The company says Claude Opus 5.5 scores well on alignment measures, but that “public policy” will eventually need to step in to protect the world from recursively self-improving AI.

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Mathematics Just Got Its First Taste of the AI Job-Pocalypse

“You first believe it when the wave hits you.”

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The United Nations General Assembly is convening in New York this week.

Traditional Safety Measures are ‘Unraveling’ as AI Advances, UN Panel Warns

How do we protect ourselves from systems that are increasingly difficult to predict?

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Sam Altman against a pixelated wall of fire.

The Doomsday Warnings AI CEOs Gave When They First Founded Their Companies

Predictions about an AI-triggered apocalypse have become a meme over the past two weeks. But tech CEOs have been making them for much longer.

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Three Hackers Used Claude to Break Into OpenAI In Less Than 72 Hours

Things could've gone a whole lot worse if they'd actually meant the company harm.

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U.S. president Donald Trump and China president Xi Jinping photographed together at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in May 2026.

Nuclear Experts Offer China and US Solutions for AI Risks

Ahead of a scheduled meeting between presidents Trump and Xi, a report offers some solutions for how the U.S. and China can avoid AI-triggered armageddon.

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United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks before the House Financial Services Committee in Washington, D.C., on September 15, 2026.

Don’t Give AI Companies What They Want, U.S. Treasury Secretary Tells Lawmakers

“The best way to guarantee safety is that the creators are liable for what they build and generate.”

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Dario Amodei seen against a chalkboard with math equations

‘P(doom)’ Is Just Vibes Masquerading as Science

Take the statistical AI doomsday warnings and divide them by a grain of salt.

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Multiple AI industry insiders have warned over the past week about the existential risk posed by the technology.

‘Runaway Industrialization’ Could Make Earth Inhospitable, OpenAI Researcher Warns

More frontier researchers are coming out of the woodwork to raise alarms.

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Lina Khan was known during her tenure as FTC chair and commissioner for taking a hardline stance towards big tech companies.

A Reminder From Lina Khan: We Don’t Need New Laws to Prosecute CEOs at AI Companies

A 1934 Supreme Court decision, for example, outlawed the “race to the bottom” dynamic that’s been sparking fear among AI circles today.

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Senator Bernie Sanders has long been one of Capitol Hills' most vocal advocates of regulation to reign in AI development.

Bernie Sanders to Join Forces With Steve Bannon at ‘Pro-Human’ Conference

Strange times make for strange bedfellows.

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Three people recreate the famous Spider Man meme during a 2023 gathering in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In the Wild West of AI, Everybody Is Accusing Everybody Else of Theft

What does that word even mean in an industry built upon the nonconsensual use of data scraped from the internet?

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As World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov (L) holds his head in his hands, IBM scientist Joseph Hoane (R) makes a move for the IBM Deep Blue computer in the sixth and final game on May 11, 1997 in New York. Kasparov resigned after nineteen moves to give Deep Blue a victory in the game and in the match, 2.5 to 3.5. Deep Blue relays its moves through a terminal at rear of table and Hoane plays the pieces on the board.

NYU Mathematician Embroiled in AI Controversy Says the Machines Have Won: ‘The Game Is Up’

Has math officially gone the way of chess and Go?

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp and US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick speak during the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on September 2, 2026.

Here’s Palantir CEO Alex Karp Wearing a Keffiyeh in College

More recently, he’s framed the Israel-Hamas War in Gaza as a struggle of good versus evil.

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The Least Worried Man in AI Has a Plan to Rein in Rogue Agents

In Silicon Valley, the End of Humanity Has Always Been Part of the Plan

Federal Appeals Court Backs Pentagon’s Anthropic Blacklisting

Microsoft Thinks It’s Finally Figured Out Copilot This Time

Five Indianapolis Cops Charged With Misusing Flock Cameras, Including One Case of Stalking

OpenAI Releases New GPT-6 Sol and Luna Models, Sells Them as Mini-Astras

Ten Days After CEO Calls for a Slowdown, Anthropic Is Back With Another AI Model

Mathematics Just Got Its First Taste of the AI Job-Pocalypse

Traditional Safety Measures are ‘Unraveling’ as AI Advances, UN Panel Warns

The Doomsday Warnings AI CEOs Gave When They First Founded Their Companies

Three Hackers Used Claude to Break Into OpenAI In Less Than 72 Hours

Nuclear Experts Offer China and US Solutions for AI Risks

Don’t Give AI Companies What They Want, U.S. Treasury Secretary Tells Lawmakers

‘P(doom)’ Is Just Vibes Masquerading as Science

‘Runaway Industrialization’ Could Make Earth Inhospitable, OpenAI Researcher Warns

A Reminder From Lina Khan: We Don’t Need New Laws to Prosecute CEOs at AI Companies

Bernie Sanders to Join Forces With Steve Bannon at ‘Pro-Human’ Conference

In the Wild West of AI, Everybody Is Accusing Everybody Else of Theft

NYU Mathematician Embroiled in AI Controversy Says the Machines Have Won: ‘The Game Is Up’

Here’s Palantir CEO Alex Karp Wearing a Keffiyeh in College

Where’s the $12 Billion Extracted by the Trump Regime From Venezuela?

Man Accidentally Inhales Superglue, Ends Up With Strange Lung Lesion That Lasted 9 Years

Skydance Bests Itself in a War Over Freddy Krueger

Nvidia CEO’s Alleged Chinese Spy Affair Now Reportedly Involves $7.5 Billion in Chip Sales

There Are 1.2 Trillion Reasons Why Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Isn’t Going Anywhere

This Super El Niño Just Triggered Something the WHO Has Never Done Before

Anthropic Goes for Microsoft’s Crown With New Claude-Powered Office Tools

ExpressVPN’s Black Friday Deal Guards Your SSN After 11 Billion Records Leaked

Scientists Expected Egypt’s Sacred Cats to Have Lived Pampered Lives. Their Skulls Say Otherwise

Trump Coins Hit All-Time Lows as Elizabeth Warren Targets Trump Family’s Crypto Empire

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