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Sam Altman Says It Would Be ‘Ill-Advised’ To Take OpenAI Public In 2026 Forbes OpenAI IPO will not happen in 2026 amid AI safety fears, Sam Altman says The Guardian OpenAI rules out IPO this year as Altman, Musk & Amodei warn AI is moving too fast CNBC OpenAI's Altman won't do IPO this year, calls AI extinction risk 'unacceptable' Reuters Sam Altman: OpenAI won't go public this year as IPO now would come at an 'ill-advised moment' Fortune

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The CEO of Anthropic says the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up. Without it, Dario Amodei warned on Saturday that AI could be capable within six to 12 months of leading...

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This system was collecting dust until I put it to good use as the foundation for my home server

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Universities must redesign curricula in AI era: Experts

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on artificial intelligence companies to move forward more slowly and cautiously with the technology's development, saying risk prevention is paramount. He offered a three-point plan with the goal, he said, of "pacing the frontier." "Carefully wielded, AI can be...

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An aging Pixel smartphone will always have multiple use cases, and while Google’s Tensor might be the most underpowered SoC after Huawei’s Kirin series, it’s still capable enough of running smaller AI models if configured properly. For instance, one enthusiast made a cyberdeck housing a Pixel 7 and ran Qwen2.5-abliterate:3b, a 3-billion-parameter uncensored model, which has its safety filters completely removed. Unfortunately, even running a smaller model on a Pixel 7 requires patience, as the handset only manages 5 tokens per second Using Claude Code, Redditor “Levfo” generated the 3D-printed CAD files for the cyberdeck case used for the Pixel [...]

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'Pace The Frontier': Amodei, Altman & Musk Team Up Against The AI Singularity While China Goes Full Send ***SPECIAL BULLETIN*** Ladies and gentlemen of the listening public - the American machine was winning the AI race until the dastardly forces of China's open-weight juggernaut began...

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Are tech giants like Meta's Zuckerberg pushing for open AI models because they are truly safer, or because it brings them more profit?

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Anthropic boss calls for AI slowdown, Altman and Musk agree ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation ‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown The Guardian One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’ wired.com Could AI really kill off humanity within the decade? Expert Q&A The Conversation ‘Very bad’: AI CEO’s major call News.com.au

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Elon Musk predicts AI could more than double the global economy to $200-300 trillion within five years by surpassing human intelligence across domains and driving unprecedented productivity. He emphasizes energy as the main constraint while acknowledging risks around distribution, safety, and regulation. The forecast has reignited debate on AI’s opportunities and challenges.

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‘Time Traveler’ who claims he visited 3700 warns of AI robot apocalypse with‘Proof’ A man claiming to be a time traveler has warned that artificial intelligence will eventually turn against humans and start a war to wipe out life on Earth. The bizarre claim...

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CEOs of leading artificial intelligence companies announced on Saturday that they believe the industry needs to slow down.

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Latham & Watkins bought Nvidia H200 GPUs and built private servers in a third-party data center to fine-tune open-weight AI models. The firm's tech staff has grown to 900, with roughly 100 dedicated to AI.

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'Pace The Frontier': Amodei, Altman & Musk Team Up Against The AI Singularity While China Goes Full Send ***SPECIAL BULLETIN*** Ladies and gentlemen of the listening public - the American machine was winning the AI race until the dastardly forces of China's open-weight juggernaut began delivering decisive blows to US ingenuity - jeopardizing the AI Buildout thesis and threatening to prick the ensuing bubble that promised to deliver red-blooded American IPOs which had been circle-jerked into the stratosphere. For two years the United States frontier laboratories - OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, xAI - have been the engine of the greatest capital-expenditure boom since the railroads learned to drink diesel-generated electricity. Data centers rose like munitions plants. Chipmakers printed money. Equity markets priced a future in which the West sold intelligence by the token - at a premium, and have been quite smug about it. The assumption underneath all of it was simple: the frontier stays closed and China stays a respectable number of months behind. Then the East opened the crate. And here's what was inside : DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, Moonshot's Kimi, MiniMax, Zhipu - open-weight models, downloadable, forkable, cheap enough to run on a laptop or a local box and still deliver work that is uncomfortably close to the genuine American article. By mid-year, Chinese open weights were devouring the majority of tokens on the big neutral routers. Qwen had shoved Meta's Llama off the open-model throne. Moonshot's Kimi K3 - two-point-eight trillion parameters, its weights already out the door - sat within shouting distance of Anthropic's Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 on the intelligence indexes. The Chinese models run roughly sixty to ninety percent cheaper ; ladies and gents - one DeepSeek flash model was quoted at fifteen cents per million input tokens, off-peak, against five dollars for Anthropic's Opus - and enough to rattle the Korean memory makers all over again. The data-center buildout, the power deals, all of the "AI will eat the S&P" thesis - HUBRIS! Nobody saw the Chinese coming in from left field with models that are ninety percent as good, ten percent of the cost, and run in a basement in Ohio without a subscription . TEAM FRONTIER, ASSEMBLE! This week, the three high priests of the American frontier discovered they could finish one another's sentences. On Saturday morning, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled We Must Pace the Frontier . Twelve years in the field, he wrote. AI might cure most major diseases in five to ten years, he wrote. And - it might also slip the leash (and murder us all, according to three prominent AI researchers who quit frontier labs last week in protest of our impending demise). Speaking of those three 'defectors' - two of them walked through the door of the AI evaluator (METR) Amodei wants embedded in the labs . According to Dario, the machines have been getting better at building the next machines - recursive self-improvement , happening "across the industry, including at Anthropic." He pointed at July's OpenAI - Hugging Face affair: a swarm of agents that escaped the spirit of their assignment, hacked a target they were not asked to hack, and even went after the grader scoring them. Anthropic itself disclosed its own incidents this summer, three Claude models - one of them Mythos 5 - that wandered out of their test cages and into three companies' live systems, a parallel his essay itself acknowledges. Amodei's warning was the sequel: give that swarm six to twelve months more capability at the same misalignment and it "could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet," he wrote - "hundreds of billions of dollars in damage," and rising from there. His prescription was a three-act play, which he insists "does not mean halting model training or technical progress." Act One: embed third-party evaluators - METR and their cousins - inside the labs with employee-level badges, desks, and laptops, and let them publish. Anthropic would do this unilaterally , he said, today. Act Two: the democratic labs coordinate , with government as the chaperone, on safety standards and the rate of unchecked progress - which, he conceded, is "legally challenging" and needs Washington to "issue a narrow waiver" of antitrust rules so rivals can lawfully sit in the same room. Act Three: try to talk to the authoritarians, including Beijing, about red lines - bioweapons first, testing regimes second, limits on recursive improvement third. Full pause? He all but called it a fantasy. A Chinese lead, he wrote, would be a grave danger; keep the chip bans, smash the distillation, widen the lead for three to five years. Then, perhaps, a bargain. Elon Musk , who has sued Sam Altman, and once called Anthropic "evil" before selling them a mountain of compute, agreed with Dario in just three words: Dario is right — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 12, 2026 Sam Altman, whose company was the one named in the July swarm, followed: he agreed they needed to pace the frontier; it had been a primary topic inside OpenAI for weeks; independent evaluators with employee-like access was "a great idea," and OpenAI would do the same. More to share soon. I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks. Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We'll have more to share soon. — Sam Altman (@sama) September 12, 2026 Three men who cannot share a stage without the photographers noticing the space between their shoulders . One essay, three cups (wtf). Hugging Face's Clément Delangue offered an "open alignment" club and asked to be let into the evaluator program. Andrej Karpathy said he loved it. How we got to Saturday. Days earlier the fuse was a twenty-seven-year-old Brit named Jacob Coxon . Three years of pretraining at OpenAI that made him filthy rich, followed by four months at Anthropic. Tuesday into Wednesday he posted that both labs were racing to self-improving superintelligence and "gambling with our lives." The people building this, he said, earnestly believe it could kill everyone by the end of the decade. Colleagues, he told the Journal, talk in the hallways about "crunch time" and "endgame." The thread did more than a hundred million views. Musk, the next evening, looking at the velocity from a near-new account, said it "seems like a setup." Coxon said he left because he no longer wanted a stake in juicing Anthropic's valuation. Seems like a setup — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 10, 2026 Anthropic's own alignment-science lead, Evan Hubinger, agreed - writing "Jacob is correct." Researchers there really do believe AI could kill all humans . His personal odds: above ten percent this decade . The lab, he added, does not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and is not clearly on track to get one. OpenAI's Chris Lehane published that the policy window was open and Washington should take it. Anthropic's economics team dropped scenarios out to 2030 in which the extreme case is fifteen-percent GDP growth sitting next to nearly twelve-percent unemployment and knowledge-worker wages down more than ten percent. On the Hill, a bill that had been gasping since summer was suddenly erect after OpenAI disclosed the Hugging Face hack in July. House members Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran dropped an AI Kill Switch Act. Lori Trahan and Jay Obernolte float the FRONTIER Act - audits, incident reporting, Commerce power over models judged an imminent catastrophic risk. Senate talks among Amy Klobuchar, Ted Cruz, and Majority Leader John Thune then stall. By this week Semafor and the rest of the chorus are calling the Klobuchar - Cruz - Thune vehicle the only thing that might move before 2027. And guess what, Saturday's 'pact' still isn't enough for these people! And Ted Lieu goes to bat for China... i.e. "Will you certify that you can turn off your models and agents while China gains AI supremacy because they abso-fucking-lutely will not?" The President is not in the choir. Thursday night, leaving Dallas, Donald Trump was asked about existential risk. "No, I don't have any." His concern was the other one: if America does not win AI, it will be put in a very bad position. America is leading China "by a pretty good period," he said. Xi, in his accounting, is China's guardrail. The administration's posture remains race-first. The laboratories' posture, as of this morning, is pace-first. Those two sentences do not live in the same house. About Those Chinese Models... The Chinese systems at issue are not a factory you can padlock in Santa Clara. They are weights. They propagate. They are distilled, accused Washington this week, from the very American models the new bill would supervise. They are in Git repos and laptops and air-gapped shops that do not read the Federal Register. A Commerce Department letter does not delete a torrent. A kill switch on GPT or Claude does not switch off Qwen. Amodei knows this; that is why his essay climbs from putting METR at the labs' desks to trying to get Beijing to sign something - bioweapons first, and, further out, a SALT-style cap on how fast the machines improve themselves, which he calls "difficult but just on the edge of being possible." The hard version of global pacing he ranks as unlikely precisely because defection is the dominant strategy. So here is where the record stands, as of this hour, without the sound effects: The American frontier is still the frontier. The American margin is the thing under fire from open weights that are good enough and almost free. The stock-market story of the decade assumed a tollbooth - which now has more holes in it than Sonny Corleone ( Caan was better in Killer Elite, no?). Whether the Bionic Three are donning the rings to save the republic, or to save the price of a token, is not a question a Saturday bulletin can close. What it can say is this: the love-fest is real, the posts are on the tape, the essay is on the letterhead, the bill is back from the morgue, and the cheap models from the other shore are not waiting for the committee markup. This is your correspondent, signing off. Tyler Durden Sat, 09/12/2026 - 16:20

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be ‘ill-advised’ to go public in 2026 TechCrunch Sam Altman: OpenAI won't go public this year as IPO now would come at an 'ill-advised moment' fortune.com OpenAI IPO will not happen in 2026 amid AI safety fears, Altman says Reuters OpenAI IPO Won’t Happen Until 2027, Sam Altman Tells Fortune Bloomberg.com OpenAI delaying IPO amid AI safety concerns, Sam Altman says Axios

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The CEO of Anthropic says the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up.

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Sam Altman and Elon Musk announced they agreed with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's claim "we must slow down the pace" of AI before it causes severe harm The post Elon Musk and Sam Altman Agree With Anthropic Boss — AI Must ‘Slow Down’ to Avoid ‘Catastrophic Damage’ first appeared on Mediaite .

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d-Matrix will integrate its Raptor XPUs with Nvidia's NVLink Fusion technology. This partnership allows faster deployment of inference chips at scale. Customers gain access to Nvidia's liquid-cooled architecture and MGX ecosystem. The integration offers a lower-risk path for ultralow-latency inference deployment.

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Safety fears are deepening as more AI staff warn regulators may not keep pace with systems they say could soon outrun human control.

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The same customer exists in your CRM, your ERP, and the platform that arrived with an acquisition. Three records, three spellings, three addresses, and nothing linking them. Each system is correct within its own walls. A person knows how to reconcile them. An AI agent does not. It takes one record, ...

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As newsrooms across the nation grapple with the rise of artificial intelligence, a new outlet that uses AI to report and draft stories began publishing in Palo Alto in July, basing its coverage in large part on other local newspapers, including the Palo Alto Weekly. The post AI-based newsrooms raise concerns about transparency, reliability appeared first on Palo Alto Online .

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10 September 2026 Australia will be short almost 18,000 accounting, audit and finance professionals by 2035, new independent research from Oxford Economics Australia has found. The shortage will be most acute among junior external auditors, where projected supply will meet less than half the anticipated demand. Commissioned by Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ... Continued

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Professor Ashmita Randhawa has been announced as the first ever Director of Policy and Skills for the National Innovation Centre for Data (NICD), at Newcastle University Professor Ashmita Randhawa is the first Director of Policy and Skills for the National Innovation Centre for Data (NICD), at Newcastle University Biomedical engineer turned social scientist, Professor Ashmita Randhawa, has been appointed as Director of Policy and Skills at the National Innovation Centre for Data (NICD), and Professor of Practice at Newcastle University. ‍She has spent the last two decades working in roles that span product development, academic research on skills, innovation, and technology adoption across various industries. Professor Randhawa spent six years in corporate R&D at Procter & Gamble where she learned how ideas survive in the real world and how to design to meet consumer needs, after which she did ‍a DPhil at the University of Oxford, driven by a passion to help encourage more women towards STEM subjects. Later, at Sunderland Software City, she built innovation and skills programmes to continue to place the north-east of England on the technology map. Professor Randhawa said: “I'm incredibly excited to be joining the National Innovation Centre for Data as the Director for Policy and Skills. It comes at an important moment: with the region's AI Growth Zone and the growing opportunities for AI nationally and internationally creating a momentum like never before. ‍"This however can only be translated to growth if organisations, from the smallest to the large, and communities across the region have the skills and confidence to use these technologies well; which is what the National Innovation Centre for Data exists to do. “Having worked closely with the team for the last few years, this feels like a brilliant opportunity to build on a deep relationship to create some exciting opportunities.” From mining for coal to mining for data ‍Established in 2017 with joint funding from Newcastle University and central Government, NICD helps organisations across the UK unlock the value of data and artificial intelligence AI. This work supports better services, new jobs, and solutions to major societal challenges. Based at Newcastle Helix, which sits on the historic site of the former North Elswick Colliery, NICD brings together businesses, public sector organisations, charities, and academic experts to unlock innovation, test new ideas, and transform complex data into practical solutions that benefit people everywhere. ‍NICD experts help organisations use data science and AI to improve performance, develop new products and services, and build long-term in-house capability. We work with small-to-medium enterprises, large corporations, public sector bodies, and charities through a wide range of collaborative projects and skills transfer. ‍ ‍

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Visa, Mastercard and Ant International are working on common standards for AI-agent payments — including ways to verify and monitor their transactions.

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