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The Toronto International Film Festival's 2026 edition is underway, with coverage tracking a wide slate of premieres including Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, and a lengthy documentary on Elon Musk. The festival also features early looks at upcoming streaming series such as Crystal Lake and Carrie, with reviews being published daily throughout the event.
Sam Altman publicly detailed how AI safety rules could be structured, joining Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Elon Musk in urging the industry to slow its pace of advanced model development. He identified two failure scenarios: AI progress spiraling beyond human control, and power over the technology concentrating in too few hands. The comments follow a wave of employee warnings at OpenAI and Anthropic about catastrophic risks tied to self-improving AI systems.
After Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei joined Elon Musk and Sam Altman in urging a pause on frontier AI development, President Trump publicly dismissed the idea, insisting the US must maintain its lead over China in AI. Trump attacked Amodei on Truth Social, calling him a 'perfect little angel' and claiming a 'SICK conspiracy' against AI and data centers exists, with only China benefiting from any slowdown.
Director Alex Gibney's latest documentary traces Elon Musk's trajectory from dot-com millionaire to a figure wielding outsized influence over US government departments. Spanning nearly four hours, the film chronologically documents Musk's mythmaking around PayPal and Tesla, juxtaposed with footage of an autopilot fatality and interviews including Ashley St Clair calling Musk 'a nuke.' Gibney frames the film around two questions: how Musk amassed such power, and why society allowed it.
China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun dismissed warnings from US tech leaders like Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk urging a slowdown in AI development, saying such rhetoric disrupts global AI governance. Separately, China's Minister of State Security Chen Yixin called for faster construction of AI security risk controls, framing AI as central to global technological and strategic rivalry.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an open letter warning that AI-driven botnet swarms could seize control of large parts of the internet within six to twelve months, potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage. He is urging a deliberate slowdown in frontier AI development to buy time for safety and alignment work, a call now echoed publicly by Elon Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman.
Leaders of rival AI companies—Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei—have converged on a shared warning that rapid AI development carries serious risk. Amodei's appeal to reduce the chance that 'something goes seriously wrong' has found backing from competitors who normally compete fiercely for AI dominance.
Tesla posted a teaser on X reading "Go for launch" with a graphic pointing to an October 1 date for unveiling its next Roadster. The vehicle, first announced in 2017, has faced repeated delays, and reports indicate the original design has been scrapped for a completely new one set to debut at this event.
As Rockstar Games prepares to release Grand Theft Auto VI on November 19 after 13 years of anticipation, a segment of right-wing gamers has begun criticizing the title for perceived 'woke' content, including its first mandatory female protagonist, Lucia Caminos, and her evolving relationship with co-lead Jason Duval. This backlash follows a pattern seen since Gamergate, where some male gamers have voiced suspicion toward gender and LGBTQ representation in game development.
Tesla vehicles branded as Cybercabs have appeared on New York City streets equipped with steering wheels and human drivers, a stark contrast to the pedal-free, wheel-free design Elon Musk showcased in 2024. Officials say the cars are running a 'supervised' self-driving system that requires a person ready to take control at any moment, and Tesla has not disclosed how many vehicles are involved or how long the testing will last. The company has also not applied for autonomous vehicle testing permits with New York's DMV, suggesting this is a data-gathering exercise rather than a service launch.
Elon Musk's attorney Alex Spiro has sent a legal warning to filmmaker Alex Gibney over his new four-hour documentary 'Musk,' claiming it defames Musk by implying he used Starlink satellites to manipulate the 2024 election in Donald Trump's favor. The complaint centers on a scene featuring texts from Musk to Ashley St. Clair referencing an 'anomaly in the matrix' and '10 thousand lasers in space,' which NPR says it verified as authentic.
The Toronto International Film Festival kicked off its annual lineup, featuring new work from Takashi Miike, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Werner Herzog, and a four-hour Elon Musk documentary. Among the festival's early standouts is 'The Only Living Pickpocket in New York,' starring John Turturro as an aging, technophobic thief navigating a city that has moved on to smartphones. The film hits theaters October 30th.