The man betting $100 billion on AI supremacy just admitted he's worried about what comes next. SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, who's committed over $100 billion to AI investments, publicly voiced concerns about AI safety risks as models rapidly gain capabilities
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The man who weaponized "regulation by enforcement" against crypto is about to do the same thing to AI. Trump is expected to appoint Jay Clayton, former SEC chairman and current US intel chief, as AI czar to lead a new "Super Intelligence Force"
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The man steering the most valuable AI company just publicly declared his competitor's approach to AI safety a threat — and he might be losing the framing war.
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The provost who warned students about AI ghostwriting got caught using AI to write that warning. Dartmouth's provost published nine articles in 2026 about AI ethics—including a Washington Post op-ed condemning students who outsource writing to AI—that appear to be AI-generated
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The world's most-followed YouTuber just got banned twice by the company that wants to build AGI for everyone, so he built his own AI instead. PewDiePie says OpenAI suspended his account twice while he was training Ajax, a small uncensored AI model designed to run on consumer hardware
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The people paid to watch for danger keep walking out the door. David Robinson, OpenAI's safety transparency lead, has resigned, citing concerns that AI firms are moving too fast
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While Washington punts on AI regulation, Sacramento just wrote the first real rulebook for keeping your boss's algorithms out of your head.
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The AI safety company that warns its own models could end humanity is asking investors to bet $2 trillion on a business that burned $42 billion last year.
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The people who built the guardrails are walking away from the machinery. David Robinson, a leader on OpenAI's Safety Systems team, resigned last week, following with a public essay warning that top AI firms aren't being nearly careful enough with technology risks
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The safety people keep quitting, and they're finally saying the quiet part out loud: it's not the tech that's broken, it's the people building it.
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The companies building the most powerful AI systems just got permission to grade their own homework. Trump announced a voluntary AI safety accord with six major tech companies, calling for "self-regulation" of frontier AI risks instead of federal oversight.
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Google's global affairs chief just told regulators what they want to hear — that Big Tech can't be trusted to police itself. James Manyika, Google SVP for Global Affairs, told Bloomberg that AI safety requires a "collective effort" beyond any single company
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The company building the most careful AI just asked priests and rabbis if their model might have a soul. Anthropic brought in religious scholars to assess whether Claude has moral standing, not just to shape its outputs but to determine if the system itself warrants ethical consideration.
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The White House just rebranded the future, but the market is calling their bluff with a 98% no-show rate.
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The data center wars just became ballot-box issues, and governors who thought they could stay neutral are about to find out what happens when Big Tech meets NIMBY fury.
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The AI CEOs want deregulation, except the ones who want their competitors regulated. Trump hosted Nvidia's Huang, Meta's Zuckerberg, Google's Pichai, and Anthropic's Amodei at the White House, where they pushed overlapping but strategically divergent policy asks
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Tesla just chose speed over specs, and the math makes Optimus cheaper than most people expect. Tesla is cutting RAM on its AI5 and AI6 chips to accelerate Optimus humanoid robot production, prioritizing cost and scale over raw compute power
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The safety team meant to keep OpenAI accountable just became the security risk. OpenAI terminated three safety researchers for allegedly sharing sensitive information with an external group, violating internal data handling protocols
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E-commerce just became a conversation, not a construction project. Shopify launched Canvas, a site builder that lets merchants create and customize online stores by talking to its AI agent Sidekick, with changes rendering in real time
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The AI safety movement can't agree on what it's even trying to prevent, which makes it the perfect vehicle for everyone's favorite policy outcome: nothing.
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