Following a former Anthropic researcher's warning that unchecked AI could pose an existential threat by 2030, executives at major AI labs including OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI called for outside governance of frontier model development. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismissed the concerns as fabricated, Chinese officials labeled them fearmongering, and President Trump downplayed the need for a slowdown while suggesting China should restrain its own AI progress. The UK's King Charles has also scheduled talks with AI leaders to discuss safer development paths.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-15
Tech leaders including Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk have pushed for greater federal oversight of artificial intelligence, but President Trump has dismissed such calls as a 'conspiracy.' Congressional Republicans, including Vice President JD Vance and Speaker Mike Johnson, are largely holding back, while Democrats like Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Jon Ossoff are pressing for more aggressive action.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-15
OpenAI's charitable foundation, which holds a 26% stake in OpenAI worth up to $250 billion, has given $500,000 to nonprofit 1Day Sooner to acquire biological research datasets from companies that have gone bankrupt. The group's leader says such datasets could often be obtained for only tens of thousands of dollars, and the funding is meant to test whether this rescue model works at scale. This grant is part of the foundation's broader push to ramp up giving, including a $100 million donation earlier this year for hepatitis C treatment access.
technologyreview.com
· 2026-09-15
Lawmakers are under growing pressure to act on AI oversight after a former Anthropic researcher warned the technology could threaten humanity within the decade, prompting unusual public calls for restraint from the CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI. Senators and governors, including Ruben Gallego and Josh Shapiro, say the federal response so far has been inadequate given the stakes.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-13
US safety regulators have opened an investigation into how Tesla self-certified its Cybercab, a robotaxi that notably lacks a steering wheel and pedals. The probe examines whether Tesla's internal approval process for this unconventional vehicle design met required safety standards before deployment.
technologyreview.com
· 2026-09-07
US District Judge Donovan Frank has again ruled against Elon Musk's xAI in its effort to halt Minnesota's law banning AI tools that create non-consensual sexualized images. The judge denied xAI's preliminary injunction request, finding the company failed to prove it would suffer irreparable harm while its First Amendment lawsuit against the state proceeds. Minnesota's law, effective since August 1, imposes fines of $500,000 per unlawful image access, penalties xAI argues could total billions of dollars.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-07
xAI-affiliated SpaceXAI is giving Memphis and Southaven, Mississippi residents 50% off Starlink internet plans and waiving the upfront cost of its new V5 hardware kit, following criticism over unpermitted gas generators powering its AI data centers. About 2,000 households have signed up since the July launch, a small fraction of the roughly 250,000 households in the Memphis area. A similar promotion is running in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-05
xAI is offering a 50% discount on Starlink residential internet plans to residents near its Memphis and Southaven data centers, along with free hardware for its new Starlink V5 rental kit, saving up to $349 upfront. The company says roughly 2,000 people have signed up since the promotion began in late June, even as it faces criticism over unpermitted gas turbines powering its facilities.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-04
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all went down Thursday morning within roughly an hour of each other, though OpenAI and Anthropic did not cite any shared external cause. OpenAI blamed a routing error resolved within about 34 minutes, Anthropic reported elevated errors across several Claude models fixed within roughly three hours, and xAI said its Grok outage stemmed from a failure at its Memphis compute facility that took nearly four hours to resolve.
wired.com
· 2026-09-03
On the morning of Sept. 3, multiple leading AI chatbots—OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini and xAI's Grok—went down around the same time, roughly 9:30 a.m. ET. Anthropic confirmed an infrastructure issue affected Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork and its API, restoring service by about 12:16 p.m. ET, while other providers' services also returned to normal later that day.
cnet.com
· 2026-09-03
Major AI platforms including ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Google's models experienced overlapping service disruptions Thursday morning. Anthropic reported elevated errors on several Claude models starting around 9:23 am, resolving them by early afternoon, while OpenAI logged degraded ChatGPT and Codex performance from 10:43 am until nearly 1 pm. xAI's Grok also displayed error messages, with user reports on DownDetector spiking into the thousands before tapering off.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-03
The Department of Defense has expanded its GenAI.mil platform to include secure, customized versions of OpenAI's ChatGPT and xAI's Grok, giving its roughly 3 million civilian and military personnel access to generative AI tools built for military use. The portal, which launched last year with Google's Gemini, already has more than 1.7 million users and shields data from the collection practices typical of consumer AI products.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-08-31
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