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OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government
Sam Altman says the company “have not been as fast as we would have liked” at dealing with security breaches, after news of further incidents over the summer forces another temporary halt.
Isabella Ward
Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI
One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.
Lauren Goode
The AI Slowdown Debate Crashed Salesforce’s Party
The Dreamforce conference became an unlikely battleground for the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia to debate whether AI development should slow down.
Maxwell Zeff
Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone
A combination of rapid advances, recursive self-improvement, and agentic swarms are genuinely “spooking people” inside big labs.
Will Knight
Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
Lily Hay Newman
If the AI Industry Followed Its Own Research, It Might Have Paused Already
Anthropic’s CEO says that safety hinges on understanding how AI “thinks.” So far the evidence is disturbing.
Steven Levy
OpenAI Delays Release of Latest Model Over Safety Concerns
The company said its latest Astra model would undergo more work to meet safety standards, and issued an apology for the way it handled the hacking of an Australian government website.
Isabella Ward
I Built AI Clones of My Coworkers. Things Got Weird
Brian Bot loved talking about improv, while Sophie Bot wouldn’t stop calling me “big dog.” Welcome to the future of work.
Kate Taylor
A Startup Wants to Power Data Centers With ‘Supercritical’ Carbon Dioxide
The technology could strap onto existing gas turbines and make them more efficient—but it wouldn’t do away with their emissions entirely.
Molly Taft
Tiny Hairs That Help Corals Breathe May Malfunction in Warming Oceans
Several new studies have uncovered this long overlooked aspect of coral physiology that could be the key to the animals’ fate in a changing climate.
Marlowe Starling
Customer Data Permanently Lost in Iran Strikes on Amazon Data Centers
Amazon Web Services didn’t design its data centers to withstand war, and now the company admits it can’t recover what’s been lost.
Jeremy Hsu
Here’s What the AI Apocalypse Could Look Like
This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss three possible AI doomsday scenarios, AI safety, and the unexpected bipartisan alliance forming against AI.
Brian Barrett