The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It's'Crunch Time for Humanity' Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the "mini Manhattan project" inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe. Artificial intelligence researcher Jacob Coxon sent shock waves through Silicon Valley and beyond on Tuesday by announcing his resignation from Anthropic and delivering a grave warning that the AI race is putting all of our lives at risk. In his post on X, which now has more than 100 million views, Coxon wrote that many of the people building AI share his views and believe time is running out to ensure AI systems are built safely . "The consensus is that the next year or two is crunch time for humanity," Coxon, who worked on the pretraining stage of AI development, said in an interview with WIRED. "These are actually just literal quotes from my colleagues at Anthropic. They'll say things like'endgame' or'crunch time,'" he says. "From their perspective, this is when Anthropic and its competitors decide the fate of humanity." It's far from the first time someone has sounded the alarm about AI, but it comes at a delicate moment.

Siri AI, Apple's long-anticipated redesign of its digital assistant, will be available in five additional languages come October, the company announced today during its fall iPhone event. Siri AI is already available in English through the iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 betas, and will roll out more broadly to English-speaking users once Apple makes those updates available to the public on Monday, September 14. During today's iPhone event, the company said it plans to bring Siri AI to French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish speaking users sometime next month. Apple also confirmed that Siri AI would feature daily usage for prompts that require the assistant to make use of the company's cloud compute AI models. We're waiting on the company to share more details, but it said that its iCloud plans would offer expanded usage limits.

Researchers say LG TV's behavior'parallels malware' - with user data logged even when TVs are on standby. Charlie Osborne is a cybersecurity journalist and photographer who writes for ZDNET and CNET from London. The side of the TV required a good bit of zooming in to capture its full thickness. A jailbroken LG TV demonstrates how our devices can become spying tools. The TV recorded user data and audio, even on standby.

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Google will buy up to half the electricity produced by one of Finland's nuclear power plants as part of a record €13bn (£11bn; $15bn) investment in the country's AI infrastructure, the company announced. The US tech giant said the package would fund three new data centres, expand an existing site and support energy projects to power growing demand for AI services. This is Google's largest single investment in Europe and a testament to Finland's leadership in responsibly building AI infrastructure, the company said on Wednesday. Google's decision is a clear testament to our strengths, Finland's Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said in a statement. As part of the deal, Google signed a 22-year contract with Finnish utility Fortum to buy up to 50% of the output from the Loviisa nuclear power plant.

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