Chip Stocks Tumble After AI Leaders Call for Slowdown in Development
U.S. chip stocks followed European and Asian peers lower premarket after the world’s biggest AI companies called for the industry to slow the tech’s development for safety reasons.
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Growing Pains for Startups in the ChatGPT Generation
Plus, HOF Capital broadens its reach; America’s AI freakout
Microsoft says ‘people matter more than AI’ following safety concerns
Microsoft is publishing a 37-page “humanist AI code of conduct” today, amid growing safety concerns over AI model progress. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a coordinated slow down of AI development over the weekend, after researchers warned recently that AI model progress could outpace our ability to safely deploy increasingly complex systems and verify…
What happens after a town de-Flocks
From Florida to Washington state, local governments across the country are canceling their contracts with Flock, the company behind the controversial AI-enabled license plate readers, in response to public outcry. But ending the contracts doesn’t necessarily mean the cameras will come down immediately – or that the information they’ve gathered will be deleted anytime soon.…
How the Clash Between Money and Safety Created a Monumental Crisis for AI
OpenAI and Anthropic, in heated competition—with each other and China—are racing toward IPOs, even as they admit they could lose control of their powerful bots.
Z.AI Plans $5.0 Billion Fundraising to Fuel AI Expansion
The latest fundraising by Z.AI, formerly known as Zhipu AI, comes less than two months after the company raised US$4.0 billion through a share placement in July.
At Restaurants, Phones Are Becoming the New Cigarettes
Screen-time while dining is now as taboo as smoking. Here’s how you can kick the habit.
Trump Sees Race Against China as Key Issue on AI Regulation
The president defended light regulation and stressed the need to keep the lead as tech executives are raising alarms about breakneck development.
Opinion | The Great AI Slowdown?
Nothing is now stopping Anthropic or OpenAI from ‘pacing the frontier’ on their own.
Opinion | We Need a Science of the AI Mind
No, we aren’t doomed, but the models are advancing more quickly than our understanding of them.