Airbnb CTO Ahmad Al-Dahle declares AGI inevitable and argues that AI should paradoxically drive people away from screens and toward more meaningful real-world human connections.
A new bipartisan 269-page AI bill proposes federal preemption of state AI laws, requiring top developers to disclose safety risks while allocating $300 million for enforcement, but critics warn it would strip states of accountability powers and turn existing protections into a ceiling rather than a floor.
Anthropic warns that AI recursive self-improvement could outpace human readiness while simultaneously raising $65 billion and filing for an IPO, exposing a stark contradiction between its safety concerns and aggressive financial expansion — all while Claude already writes over 80% of the company's own code.
Canada launches 'AI for All,' an ambitious national strategy targeting $200 billion in economic growth and 250,000 new jobs by 2034, backed by new AI safety legislation, a national literacy initiative, sovereign supercomputing infrastructure, and 12 international partnerships.
A24's youngest director Kane Parsons, 20, slams generative AI as 'genuinely harmful' and a sign of 'cultural rot,' vowing to never use it creatively while planning to explore its societal impact in future films.
OpenAI breaks with the Trump administration by pushing for mandatory AI safety evaluations and civilian oversight bodies, while major tech rivals including Anthropic, IBM, and Amazon back the White House's voluntary framework — though analysts suspect OpenAI's harder stance may be as much about optics as genuine safety concerns.
OpenAI denies making any political donations or operating a super PAC, clarifying that co-founder Greg Brockman and his wife's personal ties to the Leading the Future PAC are entirely private, while the company reaffirms its stance against political astroturfing and calls for transparent, responsible AI advocacy.
Anthropic grants the EU's cybersecurity agency ENISA exclusive first access to its powerful AI tool Mythos, making ENISA the first EU body to join Project Glasswing, an initiative allowing select organizations to test the tool ahead of its public release.
NVIDIA launches its Model Card Generator toolkit, automating AI model documentation with a 91% completion rate and 76% accuracy in under a minute, using a three-stage pipeline to produce comprehensive model cards covering Bias, Explainability, Privacy, and Safety, with Oracle already deploying it across OCI AI infrastructure.
OpenAI releases a framework warning that flawed AI testing methods can dramatically skew results, revealing that harness changes alone can cut a model's performance score nearly in half, while calling for full transparency in third-party evaluations.