Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismisses AI-driven human-extinction warnings as unscientific “doomsday narratives,” puts the chance of a 2030 apocalypse at 0%, and says he plans to discuss global AI standards with Xi Jinping at a Sept. 24 White House dinner.
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.
Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson reject efforts to slow AI development as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, backed by Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Demis Hassabis, urges companies to “pace the frontier,” while Johnson warns emergency regulation could hand China the lead.
The OpenAI-Hugging Face clash intensifies calls for targeted AI safety rules and human-value alignment, while U.S. and Chinese officials resist OpenAI and Anthropic’s regulatory push over fears that frontier firms could use regulation to block rivals.
President Trump and China reject Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to slow frontier AI, with Trump calling existential AI risks a “HOAX” and Beijing condemning proposed restrictions on China’s access to top AI chips as a Cold War tactic.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls for a globally coordinated AI “pacing” regime that gives independent evaluators such as METR employee-like access to frontier models, training pipelines and internal safety processes.
Anthropic adopts Dario Amodei’s plan to pace frontier AI development with embedded third-party safety evaluators and coordinated standards, while OpenAI considers slowing collaboration with rival labs and has paused some safety runs to strengthen security.
Anthropic says an unidentified northern Yemen cell is using Claude to aid guided-rocket and ballistic-missile development, including the R2000 missile family and a system it claims can travel more than 2,000 kilometers.
President Xi Jinping says China will lead BRICS artificial-intelligence cooperation by creating an open-source AI community to support large-language-model development, alongside training programs and a proposed digital ecosystem cloud platform.