The CEO of the world’s largest chipmaker told CBS News that tech companies should push forward with the development of artificial intelligence despite recent warnings from worried industry leaders that there may be a need to pull back due to unease about where the technology could be headed. “We should go as fast as we…
It has been an unusually quiet Atlantic hurricane season so far, and activity just hit a record low. No hurricanes have formed yet in the Atlantic basin since the 2026 season kicked off June 1. Although seasons often peak in September and October, it’s rare to reach Sept. 15 without any hurricanes developing at all. …
The United States has confirmed for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space, prompting separate warnings from China and Russia. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told the Air and Space Cyber Conference in Maryland on Monday that the U.S. has fielded “on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against…
Washington — Steve Bannon, one of President Trump’s earliest advisers, and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders may stand on opposite sides of the political spectrum, but both will be speaking at a gathering Tuesday to press for guardrails for AI. The two — along with a bipartisan group of members of Congress — will be appearing…
David Sacks, a key adviser to President Trump on technology, told CBS News he believes that fears about artificial intelligence’s potential threat to humanity are overblown and that, while caution is warranted, development of AI should continue. “I think this is becoming a panic,” he told CBS News senior business and technology correspondent Jo Ling…
Calls for a slowdown in artificial intelligence development sparked a global sell-off in technology stocks on Monday, as investors fretted over the sustainability of spending in a sector that has driven financial markets to record highs. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index slumped roughly 1% in early trading, with the broader S&P 500 falling 0.6%. The blue-chip…
Washington — Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said Sunday that there are “a lot of real risks” in artificial intelligence, warning of the “pace of technological development outpace the pace of safety” amid discourse around imposing safeguards on the industry in recent days. “We collectively have to decide that we need public oversight so…
Russian strikes killed eight civilians and wounded dozens of other people in Ukraine, local officials said Saturday, after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that sending European troops into Ukraine would amount to direct conflict with Russia. Putin, speaking to reporters at a summit of the BRICS group of emerging economies in India on Friday, said…
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said that artificial intelligence, while safe for people to use today, could one day threaten humanity as the technology grows more powerful. The development of AI “doesn’t look that different from say, ‘Terminator,’ or from science fiction films,” he told CBS News senior business and technology correspondent Jo Ling Kent….
A troubling warning from a former researcher at AI company Anthropic is drawing attention to “superintelligence” — technology that could outperform humans at every cognitive task. In a Sept. 8 social media thread announcing his resignation, the researcher Jacob Coxon accused Anthropic and rival OpenAI of “gambling with our lives” by pursuing superintelligence. In a related post…
