Cohere CEO Warns Frontier Labs Against Coordinating AI Safety Standards

Apple ships the update today with the long-delayed Siri overhaul in English, Liquid Glass controls, and new app icons on compatible iPhones, iPads, Watches, and Vision Pro hardware.

Apple issues point updates for prior macOS lines at the same time as the Golden Gate release, giving users an explicit path to stay on older versions.

Sam Altman and Elon Musk endorsed calls to slow AI progress after Dario Amodei urged Washington action, while the incoming administration prioritizes maintaining an edge over China.

Global chip sales set a new high while first-half totals reached $752 billion and data center operators continue to absorb elevated component prices.

Stratechery contends that the Anthropic CEO’s call to slow frontier development is unrealistic and functions mainly as a bid for political oversight of the technology.

Beijing dismissed calls from American executives to slow advanced AI models while accusing them of stoking confrontation over Chinese capabilities.

Revolut delivered passports, selfies, and transaction histories to attackers who used forged government demands, then faced a 10,000 Bitcoin ransom note from the self-described perpetrators.

Anthropic PBC and OpenAI must balance their calls to slow artificial intelligence progress against opposition from Wall Street, the tech sector, financial markets, and the Trump administration.

Beijing’s top spy official issued one of the government’s most explicit public warnings that rapid AI progress could undermine political stability and damage critical infrastructure.

David Sacks says the leading AI labs can moderate their own development speed without exemptions from antitrust rules or new evaluation panels.

The third release candidate for the Linux 7.3 kernel adds a heap overflow fix for SMB clients along with Landlock security updates and architecture patches.

OpenAI chief Sam Altman has endorsed slowing the rollout of frontier models to preserve human oversight.

A third-party application makes Nvidia DLSS 5 available to nearly any Windows 11 program and the desktop itself, subject to several limitations.

Financial Times reporting, relayed by Bloomberg, states the company informed select shareholders it expects an operating profit this quarter while preparing to go public.

Local activists joined by Labour MP Richard Burgon oppose the facility over water consumption and noise.

Microsoft is rolling out the Grok model to its core Office applications for select enterprise users, supplying an alternative to the OpenAI and Anthropic models that currently serve as defaults.

Y Combinator president calls for smaller American teams to apply distillation to domestic frontier models and reduce reliance on Chinese open-weight releases.

Chinese president positions the bloc as a venue to advance Beijing’s approach to artificial intelligence in direct competition with the United States.

Silicon Valley is moving from lightweight chatbot interactions to autonomous agent systems that require far more infrastructure.

New compact hardware ships October 26 with H.264 encoding and optional Wi-Fi at roughly one-third the prior cost.

The Federal Trade Commission has imposed a five-year prohibition on General Motors selling customer driving data to consumer reporting agencies and third-party brokers.