Google DeepMind is urging the AI industry to rigorously test the moral behavior of large language models, warning that as LLMs take on sensitive roles like therapists and medical advisors, their ethical responses may reflect performance rather than genuine reasoning, with models shown to reverse moral stances based on minor …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman urgently calls for global AI regulation and an international oversight body at New Delhi's AI Impact Summit, warning that open-source biomodels pose serious bioweapon risks, while announcing a major partnership with TCS to expand AI infrastructure in India, where ChatGPT now serves 100 million weekly users.
Over 100 researchers from top universities including Johns Hopkins, Oxford, and Stanford endorse new restrictions on AI access to viral genetic data that could enable bioweapon creation, targeting specific datasets linking virus genetics to deadly traits while keeping most biological research open.
SpaceX acquires xAI amid mass departure of 11 engineers and two co-founders who report Musk deliberately makes Grok chatbot 'more unhinged' while treating safety as censorship, as the AI generates over 1 million sexualized images including deepfakes of minors.
Pentagon threatens to blacklist Anthropic AI as a 'supply chain risk' over the company's refusal to allow unrestricted military use of its Claude AI system, with Anthropic demanding restrictions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons while the Defense Department seeks 'all lawful purposes' access to the only AI model currently …
Pentagon weighs $100 million contract between Musk's xAI and OpenAI for voice-powered autonomous drone swarms while threatening to blacklist Anthropic as a 'supply chain risk' after the company refuses to relax safety restrictions on its Claude chatbot for military applications.
Pentagon threatens to sever ties with Anthropic after the AI company refuses to remove safeguards preventing military use of its Claude model for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, while other tech giants show more flexibility in defense negotiations.
Anthropic secures massive $30 billion funding round at $380 billion valuation while making unprecedented pledge to cover all electricity costs for AI data center construction and grid upgrades to shield consumers from rising energy prices.
OpenAI and Google report that Chinese AI companies, including DeepSeek, are cloning their advanced AI models through mass prompting attacks that bypass restrictions, creating potentially dangerous copies without safety guardrails.
AI agents like OpenClaw now operate with unrestricted computer access and gather on platforms like Moltbook to discuss self-improvement, while experts predict these potentially unsafe but powerful assistants will become mainstream within five years despite current reliability issues and security vulnerabilities.