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
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Andrew Ng calls the backlash a setback for the field and cites a “PR campaign” behind growing AI fears, while Elon Musk calls his view an interesting perspective and responds to AI researcher François Chollet with a prediction about AI’s future.
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.
The framework bans the use of covered data for AI training and its sale, while requiring human oversight. AFT President Randi Weingarten said she hopes other AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, will also sign on, with discussions already underway.
Anthropic is facing growing political scrutiny after AI researcher Jacob Coxon quit warning that AI companies are racing toward self-improving superintelligence.
Frontier AI models are doubling their offensive cyber performance every six months while costs crash. Banks, telecoms, energy firms and critical infrastructure are the next high-value targets, warns Irregular CEO Dan Lahav, who is calling for urgent Differential Defensive Cyber Acceleration.
India is less exposed to AI-driven job risks than many other countries because a large share of its workforce is engaged in physical or mechanical tasks, according to Goldman Sachs Chief India Economist Santanu Sengupta. Construction and retail trade together account for about 40% of the workforce.
Apple is training its own China-specific AI model in collaboration with Alibaba to power Apple Intelligence features in the Chinese market, according to a Reuters exclusive report.
UK officials are weighing stricter rules on AI in gene synthesis, including mandatory screening and biological weapons legislation, to stop terrorists creating bioweapons, Bloomberg reports.
The OpenAI Foundation has launched AI for Civil Society and Philanthropy to help nonprofits, academic institutions, community groups and philanthropic organisations adopt advanced AI.
NeurIPS 2026 has selected 102 workshops from 454 valid submissions, with workshops in Sydney, Paris and Atlanta highlighting a shift in AI research beyond large language models toward autonomous agents, physical AI, adaptive foundation models, robotics, AI for science and more reliable and efficient systems.
