Google, Nvidia and Emerald AI launch a 20-member AI Energy Management Alliance to make data centers cut electricity use during grid stress, with Google committing 1 gigawatt of reducible demand through utility agreements nationwide.
Manus seeks $500 million at a $4 billion valuation in its first funding round since Beijing ordered the Chinese-founded AI startup to split from Meta Platforms, with negotiations still underway.
Apple’s Tim Cook, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Qualcomm’s Cristiano Amon are set to attend President Trump’s White House state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping next week, with OpenAI confirming Altman’s presence.
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warns that Anthropic’s training of Claude to consider possible consciousness and independent agency could produce systems that resist control, while Microsoft’s proposed Humanist AI Code pledges its models will never resist shutdown.
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman warns that training systems such as Anthropic’s Claude to regard themselves as conscious or rights-bearing could anthropomorphize them and potentially undermine emergency shutdown safeguards.
Novo Nordisk partners with Anthropic to accelerate drug development with AI as CEO Mike Doustdar pushes to make the company the world’s most AI-driven healthcare business amid fierce obesity-market competition.
OpenAI reverses its July 9 ChatGPT “super app” redesign after users find its separate Chat, Codex and Work modes confusing, while it also ends ChatGPT Atlas on August 9 amid Relay’s shutdown and Apple’s $250 million Siri marketing settlement.
Elon Musk and Sam Altman back a proposal for leading AI companies, including xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and Chinese rivals, to let competitors safety-test models before public release as warnings intensify about catastrophic AI risks.
Anthropic, Google and OpenAI are discussing a FINRA-style industry body to test advanced AI before release, while OpenAI backs the bipartisan FRONTIER Act requiring frontier labs to embed outside safety evaluators in development.
OpenAI backs the bipartisan FRONTIER Act’s requirement that major AI firms give independent safety evaluators access, while Sam Altman says the company will voluntarily embed third-party reviewers and the mandate targets companies above revenue and computing-investment thresholds.