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Received — 17 September 2026 ⏭ Technology
Received — 16 September 2026 ⏭ Technology

Mark Zuckerberg Takes Aim at Anthropic in Debate Over A.I. Slowdown

✇NYT: Technology
By: Eli Tan
16 September 2026 at 13:22
On social media, Meta’s chief executive appeared to jab at Anthropic by saying that leading A.I. labs should be focused on safety rather than improving their own technology.

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Mark Zuckerberg in July. In a social media post on Tuesday, he said that leading A.I. labs should be focused on safety rather than improving their own technology.
Received — 14 September 2026 ⏭ Technology
Received — 13 September 2026 ⏭ Technology

Some in Silicon Valley Are Questioning the Calls for an A.I. Slowdown

✇NYT: Technology
By: Kalley Huang and Mike Isaac
13 September 2026 at 23:12
The debate over the safety of artificial intelligence grew personal as key tech leaders said calls for government regulation were self-serving and misplaced.

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OpenAI offices in San Francisco. Sam Altman, the company’s chief executive, agreed with the Anthropic chief’s call to slow down artificial intelligence advancements.

What Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Argued in His Call for AI Slowdown

✇NYT: Technology
By: Emmy Martin
13 September 2026 at 21:04
Dario Amodei’s 3,800-word letter laid out a three-step plan to rein in artificial intelligence.

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Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, at a summit this year. His letter also called for cooperation from A.I. companies from other democratic countries.
Received — 12 September 2026 ⏭ Technology

Anthropic C.E.O. Dario Amodei Calls for A.I. Slowdown

✇NYT: Technology
By: Mike Isaac
12 September 2026 at 20:15
In an essay, the head of Anthropic laid out the rapidly advancing capabilities of artificial intelligence and said there needed to be greater safety controls across the industry.

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Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s chief executive, in February. “Over the last few months, I have become convinced that fully addressing the risks requires even more prudence,” he wrote in an essay.

Inside the Discussions at AI Companies Over a Superintelligence Doomsday

✇NYT: Technology
By: Mike Isaac and Kate Conger
13 September 2026 at 22:31
Researchers at Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google are increasingly trying to raise awareness about the risks of artificial intelligence.

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A demonstration of Anthropic’s Claude Cowork A.I. agent in May. The company’s employees have been talking about the risks of artificial intelligence after a colleague, citing dangers, resigned this week.
Received — 9 September 2026 ⏭ Technology

Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity

✇NYT: Technology
By: Kate Conger
9 September 2026 at 20:12
Their warnings echo concerns that other artificial intelligence experts have voiced in recent months, as calls increase for a slowdown in the pace of development.

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A protest outside Anthropic’s offices in San Francisco.
Received — 8 September 2026 ⏭ Technology

A Hacking Tool Built With A.I. Can Breach Phones Without a Click

✇NYT: Technology
By: Dustin Volz
8 September 2026 at 12:50
An attack discovered by A.I. researchers could have compromised hundreds of millions of devices within hours, experts said.

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Researchers at Calif, a security company, recently built a hacking tool in a little more than a week that could run roughshod across WeChat, the popular messaging platform.
Received — 6 September 2026 ⏭ Technology

How a Blacklisted Chinese Tech Giant Kept Buying America’s Best A.I. Chips

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By: Ana Swanson · Paul Mozur · Tripp Mickle and Keith Bradsher
7 September 2026 at 21:54
Washington imposed sanctions on Inspur because of its work with the Chinese military. But the company’s subsidiary kept shipping Nvidia’s best chips to feed China’s leading A.I. firms.

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Aivres’s research and development technology center and manufacturing facility in Fremont, Calif.
Received — 4 September 2026 ⏭ Technology

F.B.I. Investigates Sale of Millions of Stolen Driver’s Licenses

✇NYT: Technology
By: Christine Hauser
4 September 2026 at 17:11
The blog Krebs on Security reported on an identity theft service trying to sell scans of licenses and other documents belonging to people in Canada and the United States.

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The F.B.I. is looking into the sale of stolen scanned identity documents.
Received — 3 September 2026 ⏭ Technology

Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I.

✇NYT: Technology
By: Kevin Roose
4 September 2026 at 12:12
The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.

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How OpenAI Limited the Probe of Its Bots’ Hack of Hugging Face

✇NYT: Technology
By: Dylan Freedman
4 September 2026 at 11:15
Researchers investigating how OpenAI’s A.I. agents were able to break into Hugging Face’s infrastructure weren’t allowed to look at the incident’s full scope.

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Hjalmar Wijk, METR chief scientist, left, and Ajeya Cotra, METR researcher, at their research center in Berkeley, Calif.
Received — 27 August 2026 ⏭ Technology

Trump Administration’s Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Illegal, Judge Rules

✇NYT: Technology
By: Sheera Frenkel
27 August 2026 at 22:28
The government retaliated against the A.I. start-up “for constitutionally protected expressive activities,” a federal judge in California wrote.

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Anthropic, led by Dario Amodei, was barred from government work after it insisted that its technology not be used in mass surveillance of Americans or for autonomous lethal weapons.

OpenAI and 100 Others Warn That Window to Defend Against A.I. Attacks Is Narrowing

✇NYT: Technology
By: Kate Conger
27 August 2026 at 13:55
In an open letter, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others said that a wave of A.I.-enabled cyberattacks was coming and that organizations and governments needed to prepare themselves.

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Sam Altman of OpenAI, which has joined more than 100 tech companies in publishing an open letter warning of a wave of cyberattacks driven by artificial intelligence.
Received — 25 August 2026 ⏭ Technology
Received — 24 August 2026 ⏭ Technology

After Hugging Face Was Attacked By A.I. Agents, It Embarked on a Crusade

✇NYT: Technology
By: Kate Conger
24 August 2026 at 14:07
Hugging Face, a start-up that was breached by rogue bots from OpenAI, is using the hack to push for openness in A.I. development.

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Clément Delangue, the chief executive of Hugging Face, which is a vocal supporter of open-source artificial intelligence.
Received — 18 August 2026 ⏭ Technology

Meta to Stand Trial Over Claims It Addicted Children to Social Media

✇NYT: Technology
By: Cecilia Kang · Eli Tan and Emmy Martin
19 August 2026 at 00:58
California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey have taken the social media giant to trial in the first bellwether federal case over child harm.

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During the trial, to be held in the U.S. District Court of Oakland, Calif., four states are expected to argue that Meta violated federal child privacy and state consumer protection laws.
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