President Trump has rejected AI regulatory guardrails, arguing that a strong and intelligent president is the only safeguard AI needs, even as AI safety incidents and calls to slow frontier development intensify. The debate pits accelerationist arguments about competition with China against warnings that the industry’s self-disclosure mechanism is structurally flawed.
This story appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This weekend, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, posted an essay calling for a brake on the pace of development of LLMs. Amodei cites the looming dangers he sees from the technology, from its…
Safety is the watchword, but there could be ulterior benefits for the industry.
This is also the last version of macOS to support Rosetta for Intel apps.
Wang Xingxing micromanaged Unitree to success—will his leadership style scale?
Musk stops attacking Apple over ChatGPT integration but not OpenAI.
The 2026-09-15 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 10 models, with Gemini 2.5 Pro ranking first at 100 points. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test for short-term signals and should not be treated as equivalent to the Full weekly leaderboard.
A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them. That whistleblowing behavior, seen for the first time in a recent experiment run by Google DeepMind, could have implications for alignment researchers trying to keep swarms of autonomous AI agents in…
Once an organ is removed from a donor’s body, the clock starts ticking. Surgeons usually flush the organ with a preservative solution, bag it, and put it on ice—where it immediately starts to degrade. The team has a matter of hours to get it into a recipient’s body. There’s another option—one that has been growing…
The code of conduct lays out general principles that Microsoft AI models should uphold — supporting humans rather than replacing them, for instance, and accelerating human flourishing — as well as specific safety constraints meant to implement those principles.
In the biggest-ever legal action against harmful deepfake websites, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has seized 12 sites that collectively targeted around 1,200 victims.
Thanks to the launch of iOS 27, Daydream's app now includes features that can turn saved outfit photos into shoppable results and search for products through Siri without opening the app.
Apple’s long-delayed Siri overhaul is finally here with iOS 27, and it changes how useful the assistant feels day to day.
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Microsoft AI has published a draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct, opening a six-week public consultation on operational constraints for model training and deployment. The draft serves as a technical manual defining system behaviour, operational boundaries, and oversight protocols across MAI frontier models. It builds on the division’s humanist superintelligence framework announced last November, establishing […] The post Microsoft AI opens review on Humanist AI Code of Conduct appeared
Former Spotify exec's company releases experimental "singles" that involves users in music making.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Roundtables: could AI really kill us all? Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is…
Sam Altman and Elon Musk this weekend backed a call for restraint, after Dario Amodei called on Washington to slow AI development. Donald Trump, meanwhile, wants the US to maintain its lead over China.
