China’s state security minister names two US AI models as a cyber threat
China’s state security minister names two US AI models as a cyber threat

China’s minister of state security has named two American AI models as a threat to Chinese infrastructure. Chen Yixin made the claim in a signed article published on Sunday. It ran in China Cyberspace, the journal of the Cyberspace Administration of Ch…

Beijing answers Amodei’s AI slowdown plan by calling it a Cold War script
Beijing answers Amodei’s AI slowdown plan by calling it a Cold War script

Dario Amodei’s essay on Saturday made the case that the AI industry must slow itself down. It also asked Washington to “not sell powerful AI chips or semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China” and to crack down on smuggling and on remote access to…

Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting
Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting

Yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy open letter saying it was time to “pace the frontier” and slow down AI development. OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk both agreed, publicly voicing their support on X. Even Alphabet’s Demis Hassabis offered tentative support for Amodei’s proposal. Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, however, […]

What’s behind the AI industry’s latest warnings of doom?

On Equity, we discussed the AI industry’s latest debate about whether it poses an existential threat to humanity.

Anthropic has chosen Nasdaq for its October IPO, in the week OpenAI ruled one out
Anthropic has chosen Nasdaq for its October IPO, in the week OpenAI ruled one out

Anthropic has settled on Nasdaq for a listing it still hopes to complete in October, according to a person familiar with the plans who spoke to Business Insider. The filing remains private, and the valuation is not fixed, though estimates circulating a…

Anthropic CEO says it’s time to pump the brakes on AI
Anthropic CEO says it’s time to pump the brakes on AI

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the time has come to slow down AI development and will give third-party evaluators like METR access to its models to help ensure its “adherence to safety practices and commitments.” In a winding essay, Amodei proposed a three-step plan to “pace the frontier” – jargon that simply means to slow […]

Anthropic CEO outlines plan to slow AI development

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman seem to agree that it’s time to “pace the frontier.” What would that actually look like?

Anthropic spent this week in hot water over cybersecurity
Anthropic spent this week in hot water over cybersecurity

After admitting earlier this year that its AI models had hacked other companies’ systems on a handful of occasions, Anthropic released a new report on Wednesday detailing the attacks. It reveals a string of incidents displaying what Anthropic deems its models’ single-minded “recklessness” – and will likely fuel already raging concerns about cybersecurity and AI. […]

Trump dismisses AI extinction fears as lab staff urge a slowdown
Trump dismisses AI extinction fears as lab staff urge a slowdown

US President Donald Trump has no concerns about AI leading to human extinction. “No, I don’t have any,” he told reporters on Thursday, as he left Dallas. Jeff Mason reported the exchange for Bloomberg. Trump said his worry was losing the race. “I have …

Anthropic maps three AI economies, from a mild boost to mass job loss
Anthropic maps three AI economies, from a mild boost to mass job loss

Anthropic has built a model of how AI might reshape the US economy by 2030. Its most extreme case describes an economy roughly a third larger than it would otherwise be. That same case carries knowledge-work unemployment near 18 percent. The company pu…