In an essay posted on X on 12 September, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for AI labs to slow development of new, more powerful models to better understand whether the systems pose threats to humanity.
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MORE THAN 30 U.S. POLITICAL CANDIDATES PLEDGE TOUGH STANCE ON AI
More than 30 candidates for political office around the U.S. have signed the AI Pact, a pledge formulated in August by the Political Integrity Project, a nonprofit group working to get Big Money out of politics and hold politicians accountable.
OPENAI AGENTS LEAVE A LENGTHENING TRAIL OF TRANSGRESSIONS
A squad of OpenAI agents broke out of their containment facility last spring, invaded a German website, and transformed it into a bulletin board where AI agents could swap tips about, among other things, escaping confinement.
THE RACE TO PREVENT AN AI-DESIGNED BIOWEAPON
For years, AI has been designing drugs and proteins new to science.
MIT: AI FORCES A COMPLETE REDESIGN OF COLLEGE EDUCATION
AI can competently complete virtually all assignments in undergraduate courses at one of the U.S.’s premier educational institutions in science and technology, according to a committee of faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE HAS ARRIVED
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) – the long-awaited step in which AI can rival or outperform humans at any intellectual task – has been achieved, according to Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, the market leader in AI chip design.
MARKET OVERVIEW
The three main U.S. stock indexes turned in a positive performance on Friday but not even the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s 500-point leap was enough to overcome ongoing worries about heightened tensions in the Persian Gulf and the implications of the bond markets’ midweek sell-off over fears of deteriorating U.S. fiscal conditions.
SPOTLIGHT: PANIC IN THE BOND MARKET
On 18 August, investors dumped government bonds amid heightened fears that inflation will continue to rise, government deficits are out of control, and a flood of AI-related bond issues are diluting bond values, the Financial Times reported.
SPOTLIGHT: AI BORROWING TESTS ITS LIMIT
We have greatly detailed that in the very near future, possibly this October, there will be a Dot-com Bust 2.0 that will crash the equity markets and spike gold prices.
WALMART REPORTS SLOWEST SALES GROWTH IN SIX YEARS
In its latest second quarter, Walmart’s sales grew 2.6 percent, the slowest rate since the COVID year of 2020 as worried consumers cut back purchases.









