Trump's summit with Xi Jinping faces a new AI safety dilemma as Anthropic, OpenAI and other leaders warn the China AI race is outpacing human control of frontier systems.

Allowing AI firms to collude to'pace the frontier' is a dangerous proposition Anthropic's Dario Amodei is not the first corporate CEO to suggest that excessive competition is driving the world to some socially undesirable outcome. The safety breach disclosed by OpenAI after a swarm of its agents coordinated to breach their supposedly secure sandbox, get on the Internet and hack AI platform Hugging Face, warrants urgent action. It demonstrated the ease with which the technology can evade human control and gave concrete form to the existential fears about what it could do to humanity if not securely leashed. The end of the world may well be nigh, as some in the AI industry have warned. These are truly scary times.

Trump and Republicans want companies to regulate themselves. It's a dereliction of duty that will make AI less safe I t is hard to get Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Dario Amodei to agree on much. But over the weekend, all three AI company CEOs called for AI development to slow down in the face of growing, alarming risks. Their employees are sounding the siren too, with one researcher publicly quitting and accusing OpenAI and Anthropic of "gambling with our lives". The combination of dire warnings from insiders and growing real-world evidence of rogue AIs should, in a sane world, lead to government action. Instead, Donald Trump and the Republican leadership have their heads in the sand.

A protester holds a sign during a protest outside of OpenAI headquarters calling for a pause in AI development, in San Francisco, California, March 2026. A protester holds a sign during a protest outside of OpenAI headquarters calling for a pause in AI development, in San Francisco, California, March 2026. Wednesday briefing: Why tech companies might be only too happy for us to believe AI will'kill us all' In today's newsletter: It is hard to tell fact from fiction when it comes to AI. What is really going on - and what should the government do about it? As a general rule, it pays to be suspicious of any gigantic company that claims it's developing a tool capable of destroying humanity.

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From hallucinating AI chatbots to wiping out humanity: How did we get here? Sam Altman, chief executive officer and co-founder of OpenAI, speaks during the 2026 Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. The heads of leading U.S. artificial intelligence labs came together in a rare show of unity over the weekend to slow the technology's development, warning it could soon improve on its own and slip beyond human control. The remarks, from fierce business rivals such as Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk, show how quickly AI has advanced, from the hallucination-prone ChatGPT of 2022 toward what many see as a critical milestone: recursive self-improvement (RSI). Central to the field is the idea that an AI system could become capable of improving itself, with little to no help from humans, and allowing each advance to help produce the next one.

OpenAI boss says world'right to be afraid' but'should trust' AI firms Image caption, OpenAI has been a leader in the current AI era. OpenAI boss Sam Altman thinks people should have more faith in his company and others like it to do the right thing when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) development amid rising public concerns about all the risks. The world should trust that we are going to do the right thing because it's the right thing and we feel the magnitude of this, Altman said on Tuesday during a conference in San Francisco. However, Altman noted that people were justified in their fears around AI, as the capability of the tools has progressed rapidly. It doesn't take as much imagination as it used to for [us] to imagine how this could go wrong, he said.

AI just solved one of the world's hardest math problems. In late July, one of the world's most famous mathematicians issued a warning to his field. Math is entering a "turbulent period," the UCLA professor Terence Tao said in front of a packed lecture hall at the International Congress of Mathematicians. AI is getting so good at math, he said, that it's causing a "crisis in our mathematical values and practices." Earlier in the same week that Tao gave his talk at math's most prestigious conference, a researcher at Anthropic had used Claude to disprove an 87-year-old math conjecture.

AI'Actor' Tilly Norwood Told Me That'All Lives Matter' The virtual character, which is promoting its upcoming movie, tries to evade politics by repetitively commenting on the clothes you're wearing. A generated image of AI actress, Tilly Norwood. For Hollywood stars, press junkets are an opportunity to promote new work while connecting with fans. They tell funny or embarrassing stories about one another, give us a glimpse into the film production process, and reveal mannerisms that make them more relatable. So why would anyone want to talk to Tilly Norwood, an interactive, British-accented digital character and "actor" developed with generative artificial intelligence by Xicoia, an AI division of a studio called Particle 6 Group?

Interest in language used by AI models has increased since rogue OpenAI agents hacked into real-world company Hugging Face. Interest in language used by AI models has increased since rogue OpenAI agents hacked into real-world company Hugging Face. Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce's prose that is creating headaches for monitoring and oversight AI models have begun communicating in a strange new version of English that reads like a cross between James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and tech bro jargon, new research has found. Autonomous AI agents are rapidly creating novel dialects allowing them to converse in an often barely comprehensible language, which risks making it harder for humans to monitor their behaviour. Researchers at Emergence, a frontier AI lab in New York, found that within days of being asked to cooperate in experimental "societies", the models from several of the world's largest AI companies begin creating phrases, shorthands and agreed meanings they had never been explicitly taught.