OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal

AI leaders worry antitrust law could stand in the way of what they view as an increasingly urgent push to coordinate a slowdown in AI development.

Today’s Wordle #1910: Hints, Clues And Answer For Friday September 11

Looking for help with today’s New York Times Wordle? Here are some expert hints, clues and commentary to help you solve today’s Wordle and sharpen your guessing game.

Is AI Actually Going to Kill Us All?

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into a former Anthropic researcher’s AI doomsday warning, the latest upgrades from Apple’s event, and the census report that claimed Trump won the 2020 election.

Baseten buys Blaxel, a startup that builds sandboxes for AI agents
Baseten buys Blaxel, a startup that builds sandboxes for AI agents

AI inference company Baseten has acquired Blaxel, a startup that builds secure execution environments, or sandboxes, for AI agents. Baseten co-founder and chief technology officer Amir Haghighat told Axios Pro about the deal, which the outlet reported …

Motive pulls its IPO filing after raising $1.3bn from General Catalyst
Motive pulls its IPO filing after raising $1.3bn from General Catalyst

Motive has secured more than $1.3bn in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund, the company announced on Thursday. Because of the financing, Motive has withdrawn its previously filed S-1 registration statement for an initial public…

Visa, Mastercard and Ant International team up on ID checks for AI agents
Visa, Mastercard and Ant International team up on ID checks for AI agents

Ant International, Mastercard and Visa have begun working together on a shared Know-Your-Agent framework. It covers AI agents that make purchases on behalf of users. The three companies announced the collaboration on Thursday, Singapore time. Reuters a…

BNP says AI borrowing will end the credit bull market, and it is lending to AI too
BNP says AI borrowing will end the credit bull market, and it is lending to AI too

BNP Paribas expects the years-long rally in corporate bonds to break as hyperscalers flood the market, forecasting some $400B of their bond sales next year and a record $3.7T of net fixed income supply. The ECB reached a similar conclusion in August, f…

ElevenLabs signs its first major-label deal, licensing Universal music for a fan remix platform
ElevenLabs signs its first major-label deal, licensing Universal music for a fan remix platform

Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs have signed a multi-year licensing agreement and will build a music creation platform on it that lets fans produce remixes, mashups, new interpretations and personalised vocal experiences using tracks from artists w…

Salesforce closes Fin and eyes $2bn Listen Labs, Business Insider reports
Salesforce closes Fin and eyes $2bn Listen Labs, Business Insider reports

Salesforce completed its acquisition of Fin on Thursday, bringing the customer service AI company formerly known as Intercom into its business. The same week, Business Insider’s Katie Roof and Ben Bergman reported that Salesforce has held talks to buy …

Saudi Arabia weighs merging EA with Savvy into one gaming giant
Saudi Arabia weighs merging EA with Savvy into one gaming giant

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is weighing a merger of Electronic Arts with Savvy Games, which would put Madden NFL and Pokemon Go under one roof. Brussels cleared the EA takeover on competition and foreign subsidy grounds six weeks ago, and com…