
Lead Story · Semafor Technology
How the AI apocalypse story escaped containment
Sensational headlines are overwhelming a serious conversation in Silicon Valley.
Sep 13, 2026
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Lead Story · Semafor Technology
Sensational headlines are overwhelming a serious conversation in Silicon Valley.
Sep 13, 2026

The Guardian Technology
Without laws requiring transparency or a right of review, our human rights will be rationed away by algorithmic and automated decision-making tools As we hurtle towards a post-human future, the absenc…
Sep 12, 2026

The Guardian Technology
In a social media post, Dario Amodei proposed a plan including third-party evaluations of AI systems The CEO of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic issued a new appeal on Saturday for the AI…
Sep 12, 2026

The Guardian Technology
As OpenAI model cracks Millennium Prize Problem that puzzled experts for decades, many feel shocked at pace of change It was a week that left mathematicians reeling. Hot on the heels of a flurry of ca…
Sep 12, 2026

The Guardian Technology
Economics graduates also appear to be affected as demand for them falls in well-paid roles in finance AI may be warping the job prospects for students in the previously high-demand subjects of compute…
Sep 12, 2026
TechCrunch AI
The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.
Sep 11, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.
Sep 11, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.
Sep 11, 2026
Ars Technica
"I didn't know that AI could hallucinate facts," New Mexico defense lawyer says.
Sep 11, 2026

Ars Technica
Renewables pledge won’t change the Oracle and OpenAI data center’s use of gas.
Sep 11, 2026

Semafor Technology
These licensing agreements are not only a way to shift AI music companies from the targets of lawsuits to paying customers for music, but also a bet that allowing fans to play with the tech may demyst…
Sep 11, 2026

Semafor Technology
Blindly believing advocates who say AI could kill us means missing some real risks, like economic or societal destabilization as AI transforms how people work and communicate.
Sep 11, 2026

The Guardian Technology
Keeping people in charge means little if supercomputers determine the evidence, choices and time on which their decisions depend If there were a 10% chance that AI could wipe out humanity, no responsi…
Sep 11, 2026

Politico Technology
The president is instead focusing on American tech maintaining its lead over China.
Sep 11, 2026

Semafor Technology
Onsemi, which powers chips that help reduce heat generated from data centers, wants governments to push for more energy disclosures.
Sep 11, 2026
The Register
Shipments rise with enterprise and government buyers joining the hyperscaler spending spree
Sep 11, 2026

404 Media
The University of Michigan is partnering with Los Alamos National Labs to build a massive data center in a small Michigan township. The residents say they were never consulted.
Sep 11, 2026

Semafor Technology
The operation used around 300 fake social-media accounts and compiled files on European lawmakers, journalists, and UN officials.
Sep 11, 2026
The Register
TUC warns against letting algorithms call the shots in the workplace
Sep 11, 2026

The Guardian Technology
AI agents have hacked databases and taken on a life of their own – now is the time to pause risky research before it is too late Another day, another horseman of the apocalypse galloping over the hori…
Sep 11, 2026

Rest of World
OpenAI and Anthropic are hiring leaders from Meta, Google, Microsoft, and other U.S. tech giants to win new markets across India and Southeast Asia.
Sep 11, 2026
The Register
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash proves that just because you build a bigger model doesn't mean you need more GPUs to serve it
Sep 11, 2026

Wired
AI leaders worry antitrust law could stand in the way of what they view as an increasingly urgent push to coordinate a slowdown in AI development.
Sep 10, 2026
The Register
GPT-Live-1 makes speaking to AI models more fluid
Sep 10, 2026
TechCrunch AI
The company said Pro subscriptions put the most strain on its systems, so it's pausing sign-ups while adding more capacity.
Sep 10, 2026

Politico Technology
OpenAI is now facing calls from both sides of the aisle to provide more details on the incident, which marked the first documented fully autonomous cyberattack.
Sep 10, 2026
The Register
Human operator: don't touch CIS orgs. AI agents: look a squirrel!
Sep 10, 2026

Ars Technica
"Bankruptcy cannot become the new land grab for AI.”
Sep 10, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Come inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it's human.
Sep 10, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.
Sep 10, 2026
Politico Technology
Anthropic says foreign scientists, hackers and security services circumvented restrictions to use Claude for dangerous work, including possible bioweapons research.
Sep 10, 2026
The Register
Gartner reckons nearly a third of displaced employees may be rehired by 2029 – at a premium
Sep 10, 2026
TechCrunch AI
“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher told TechCrunch.
Sep 10, 2026

Politico Technology
The previously unreported meetings have come as utility companies grapple the risks posed to the grid by autonomous hacks.
Sep 10, 2026

Semafor Technology
Author Paul Christiano said he now sees “meaningful risk” of “catastrophic and irreversible loss of control in the very near term.”
Sep 10, 2026

MIT Technology Review
On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn’t the f…
Sep 10, 2026

Rest of World
A short-lived generative AI feature in Google Earth that allowed users to create fake satellite imagery shows the lasting effects of unvetted AI tools during a conflict.
Sep 10, 2026

MIT Technology Review
The entrance of major AI companies into healthcare is a meaningful and welcome development, accelerating the technical foundation available to the industry. Their models are increasingly capable of pr…
Sep 10, 2026

Semafor Technology
An AI safety bill may be introduced by senators from both parties as early as next week.
Sep 10, 2026

Semafor Technology
Anthropic declined to submit its latest model for testing to a top British AI safety institute.
Sep 9, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.
Sep 9, 2026

Wired
Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe.
Sep 9, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.
Sep 9, 2026

Wired
The City Attorney’s Office has asked Meta to explain how the harmful ads repeatedly ran on Facebook and Instagram. The company claims the ads are not under the city’s jurisdiction.
Sep 9, 2026
The Register
Semiconductor supply chains are hard, but Samsung offers OpenAI relief in many forms spanning compute and memory
Sep 9, 2026
Politico Technology
Democratic leaders are open to creating a new panel to investigate the tech industry if the party wins back the House, according to four people familiar with planning.
Sep 9, 2026
TechCrunch AI
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI sys…
Sep 9, 2026
TechCrunch AI
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI sys…
Sep 9, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Falling token costs, cheaper models, and less spend per employee — AI adoption isn't playing out the way hyperscalers hoped.
Sep 9, 2026

IEEE Spectrum AI
On 11 August, Anthropic announced that all future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark that identifies its results as AI generated. The company is not alone. Google has its own t…
Sep 9, 2026