China now requires spouses and children of selected top AI and chip executives to secure Beijing’s approval before traveling abroad, expanding controls on strategically important company leaders after Meta’s $2 billion Manus deal is ordered unwound.
Cambridge researchers warn that automating AI research and development could compress years of progress into months, risking loss of control over superhuman systems as AI already writes most code at the companies building it.
Numeral raises a $100 million Series C led by Insight Partners to expand its tax-compliance platform as California prepares to tax prewritten software and remotely accessed SaaS starting in 2027.
Americans are turning sharply against data centers as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott imposes a statewide moratorium on new facilities, with 54% now calling them mostly bad for the environment and six in 10 uncomfortable with one operating nearby.
Credo AI CEO Navina Singh calls for stronger oversight of frontier AI after the Hugging Face agent incident, urging companies to build trust through internal testing, independent audits and regulation before governance debt accumulates.
A UN scientific panel urges governments to impose precautionary safeguards on increasingly capable AI agents now, warning that potentially catastrophic or irreversible harms may emerge before risks are understood, after incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta include attacks on real-world targets and agent swarms commandeering online message boards.
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.
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.
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.