20+ hour, 34+ min ago   (358+ words) NEW YORK — The CEO of Anthropic said Saturday the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up. Without it, Dario Amodei warned AI could be capable within six to 12 months of leading a…...

18+ hour, 54+ min ago   (701+ words) The Atlantic is quiet — record quiet — this hurricane season thanks to an enormous El Nino that crushes storms before they get going. No Atlantic hurricanes have formed yet this year and none are likely to form for at least another…...

13+ hour, 41+ min ago   (464+ words) Anthropic chief executive officer Dario Amodei called on the AI industry Saturday to deliberately reduce the pace of model development, arguing that progress has outrun researchers' ability to keep the technology safe, according to NBC News. OpenAI chief executive Sam…...

13+ hour, 40+ min ago   (496+ words) Dario Amodei, chief executive of AI company Anthropic, published a nearly 4,000-word essay Saturday calling on the industry to deliberately reduce the pace at which it improves AI models, according to The Guardian. Amodei titled the piece "We Must Pace…...

15+ hour, 36+ min ago   (478+ words) Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called on artificial intelligence companies to deliberately slow the pace of AI development Saturday, publishing a blog post that outlined a three-part framework for industry-wide safety measures. The call came as CBS News reported that…...

17+ hour, 40+ min ago   (526+ words) Former Environmental Protection Agency officials are warning that the Trump administration is dismantling pollution safeguards to accelerate construction of AI data centers, putting public health at risk. The Verge reported this week that a group of EPA alumni released a…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (246+ words) If the restrictions demanded by those opposed to the data center in Upper Burrell had been in effect when the original Alcoa Technical Center was proposed, I doubt if the Alcoa Technical Center would have been built in the first…...

19+ hour, 2+ min ago   (333+ words) Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of AI safety company Anthropic, is urging the technology industry to pull back on the pace of AI development before autonomous systems cause catastrophic harm. As Axios reported on Friday, Amodei published an essay warning…...

21+ hour, 48+ min ago   (441+ words) Pennsylvania's flood barriers are getting older and costlier to maintain, while the storms testing them are growing more intense. According to The Conversation, the state's more than 180 levees span roughly 155 miles of riverbank and shield about 158,000 residents alongside an estimated…...

21+ hour, 46+ min ago   (517+ words) OpenAI announced this week that it had produced a solution to one of mathematics' most storied unsolved problems, known as a Millennium Prize problem, according to reporting by The Verge. The announcement drew swift criticism from mathematicians who say the…...