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The danger of AI is not that it will become conscious and hate us, but that it will become competent and ignore us."

—Eliezer Yudkowsky

Australia Senate Calls Sam Altman, Dario Amodei Over AI Agent Breach

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and the Australian Greens logo. The two AI executives were asked to appear before an Australian Senate inquiry examining AI and data centres.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei were asked to appear before an Australian Senate inquiry following an OpenAI agent’s unauthorized access to a government portal.

China Leads Global Robot Market as India Marks 15% Growth to Rank 6th

Industrial robots are expanding across manufacturing and other sectors as global robot installations continue to grow.

China accounted for 59% of new industrial robot installations globally in 2025 as worldwide operational stock crossed 5 million units, while India recorded 15% growth and ranked sixth globally, according to the International Federation of Robotics.

AI Pricing Battle Intensifies as Anthropic and OpenAI Cut Costs with New Models

OpenAI and Anthropic are cutting prices for their latest AI models, with GPT-6 Sol and Luna 50% cheaper and Claude Opus 5.5 costing 40% less to run than Opus 5.

Anthropic and OpenAI have launched cheaper AI models as competition intensifies, highlighting lower costs alongside improvements in performance, factuality and capabilities.

OpenAI Calls for US to Lead Global AI Standards, Including Recursive Self-Improvement

Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, as the company calls for the US to lead global AI standards.

OpenAI has proposed global technical standards for frontier AI and recursive self-improvement, covering common safeguards, capability and risk assessments, incident reporting and human oversight of automated AI research.

UN AI Panel Warns of Risk of Losing Human Control Over AI Agents

UN AI panel warns of risks to human control as increasingly capable AI agents become harder to monitor and constrain.

The UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on AI said the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident brought together a misaligned goal, the capability to pursue it and an environment that allowed AI agents to act.

China AI Boom: How is China Financing it? What a US-Based Research Firm Says

China’s AI buildout is drawing increasing investment as companies rely on equity, bank loans and other financing channels while AI revenues and profitability lag those of US peers.

According to a Rhodium Group report, China’s AI revenues and profitability lag those of US peers. The report says China’s AI models generated around $10.7 billion in combined annual recurring revenue, roughly 10% of recently reported levels for OpenAI and Anthropic, while Chinese AI firms rely on equity, bank loans and other funding channels to sustain investment.

TypeSafe AI Pauses Jev Signups After ‘Immense Swell of Demand’

TypeSafe AI has temporarily paused new signups for Jev, its first “System One” AI model, citing a surge in demand.

TypeSafe AI has temporarily paused new signups for Jev, its first “System One” AI model, citing an “immense swell of demand” just two days after its public launch.

UN Chief António Guterres Calls for Global Guardrails on AI, Sam Altman To Brief UN Security Council

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for global cooperation and stronger guardrails on AI ahead of UN General Assembly with Sam Altman called to brief UN Security Council in New York

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for global AI guardrails and stronger international cooperation, warning that AI development is advancing faster than humanity’s understanding of its risks.

Anthropic Taps Accenture on AI Evaluation Amid Questions over METR’s Independence

Anthropic and Accenture have partnered on independent evaluation of frontier AI models, with questions also raised over the independence of nonprofit evaluator METR.

Anthropic said the Accenture partnership is non-exclusive, with additional evaluators to be announced in the coming weeks, while the company continues discussions with METR and other evaluators.

Claude Now Leads 26% of Anthropic’s Model R&D Work, Up from 1% in March

Anthropic introduces new metrics to measure the pace of AI development inside frontier labs, with Claude now leading 26% of its model R&D work.

Anthropic has introduced new measurements to track the pace of AI development inside frontier labs amid growing automation in the process of building AI systems and rising global debate over AI safety.