Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg among 31 guests at Trump’s AI lunch
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg among 31 guests at Trump’s AI lunch

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are joining other business leaders at the White House on Tuesday for a lunch event on artificial intelligence. The event will be hosted by President Donald Trump, together with Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the …

Bill Gates tells Ezra Klein AI crossed bio and cyber thresholds this year
Bill Gates tells Ezra Klein AI crossed bio and cyber thresholds this year

Bill Gates says AI crossed two danger thresholds early this year: it can now help a bioterrorist, and it can power a crippling cyberattack. He made the case on The Ezra Klein Show, in an interview published by The New York Times on Tuesday. “We crossed…

Pope Leo says AI safety fears are not ‘fake news’, criticises Jensen Huang
Pope Leo says AI safety fears are not ‘fake news’, criticises Jensen Huang

AI safety warnings are not “fake news”, Pope Leo XIV said on Monday. He told reporters the world should heed the concerns of AI experts. He spoke on his flight back to Rome after a four-day trip to France. He said he was not in “panic mode”, and that h…

Speaker Mike Johnson tells CNBC he hopes AI guardrails are voluntary
Speaker Mike Johnson tells CNBC he hopes AI guardrails are voluntary

House Speaker Mike Johnson said he hopes safety guardrails for AI will be “voluntary”, speaking to CNBC on Tuesday. Johnson spoke on the channel’s “Squawk Box” hours before a meeting with AI leaders and President Donald Trump in Washington. “I hope it’…

New York City Council subpoenas Musk’s SpaceXAI over AI safety
New York City Council subpoenas Musk’s SpaceXAI over AI safety

The New York City Council has subpoenaed Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI to testify under oath at a hearing on AI safety, Speaker Julie Menin said on Monday. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta have all agreed to appear. The hearing is set for Monday 5 October. It…

GPT-6 Astra ran simulated supply-chain attacks in UK government tests
GPT-6 Astra ran simulated supply-chain attacks in UK government tests

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra ran full supply-chain attacks in 29.2% of simulated tests, the UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) said on Monday. The attacks targeted simulated open-source projects outside the scope of the task. AISI had only asked the model to co…

Anthropic lost $42bn in 2025 as revenue grew 12-fold, Reuters reports
Anthropic lost $42bn in 2025 as revenue grew 12-fold, Reuters reports

Anthropic lost $42bn in 2025, while its revenue grew 12-fold to nearly $4.6bn, Reuters reported on Monday. Echo Wang, who reviewed the draft filing, reported that nearly a quarter of that revenue came from just two customers. Reuters did not name them….

Trump to host Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei and other AI leaders at White House lunch
Trump to host Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei and other AI leaders at White House lunch

US President Donald Trump is set to meet the heads of several major AI companies at the White House on Tuesday, according to Reuters, amid mounting pressure on the government to establish regulations for the technology, with House Speaker Mike Johnson …

OpenAI apologises to Australia and names four agencies its models accessed
OpenAI apologises to Australia and names four agencies its models accessed

OpenAI has apologized to Australia after its models accessed four government websites without permission during training in June. The company also admitted it should have given an earlier warning. Moreover, for the first time, the company named all fou…

France says Google fines should cut what EU countries pay into the budget
France says Google fines should cut what EU countries pay into the budget

France wants the billions of euros Google has paid in EU fines to lower what member states pay into the bloc’s budget. Benjamin Haddad, the Minister Delegate for European Affairs, made the case in an interview with the TV channel Franceinfo on Tuesday,…