FOMO—the fear of missing out—used to be a shorthand favorite of young people worried about not being at the right party on a Saturday night. Now, chief executives are increasingly having FOMO over applied AI. The financial bets are large enough for boards to wince at capital expenditure implications. The outcomes are shrouded in mystery, a particular irritant for leadership teams obsessed with data and clarity. Step
It took the possibility of species annihilation, but AI leaders did something remarkable this weekend: They reached a consensus. After ex-Anthropic engineer Jacob Coxon’s warnings about a looming AI armageddon lit a firestorm among techies and politicians alike, the leaders of the most advanced AI labs came to a tentative agreement — largely via posts
Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue questioned the focus on a former Anthropic researcher who said AI workers privately fear the technology could kill all humans. “Sorry, but asking Jacob about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change,” Delangue wrote on X on Friday. Delangue said that Jacob Coxon, the former
The flash flood destroyed many buildings and left villages covered in mud and debris.Credit: Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty The high-altitude collapse of rock and ice that triggered a catastrophic flash flood near the Nepal–Tibet border on 26 August has so far claimed more than 1,000 lives. More than 4,000 people remain missing. Manoochehr Shirzaei, a
LOS ANGELES — Just days before two teenagers carried out a mass shooting at a San Diego mosque, federal law enforcement officials warned the parents of one of the shooters that their son was making concerning comments about school shootings on the dark web, according to new details included in a recently filed lawsuit. The
A Dutch drug addiction and mental health institute has issued a “red alert” to users about potentially lethal ecstasy pills in the shape of US President Donald Trump’s head. The Utrecht-based Trimbos Institute said several of the pills had been handed in at testing centres in August and were found to contain a “very high”
