28 Sep

Bill Gates Suggests He’s the Man to Convince Donald Trump to Regulate AI

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has some thoughts on AI safeguards, and he’d like to convey them to President Donald Trump himself. “You need law enforcement and the politicians to get into the discussion about what safeguards and monitoring look like,” Gates said on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday morning, per Reuters. “And that has to be a required ​thing.” “No one thinks self-regulation is enough,” Gates said, adding, “It’s not a hoax at all.” Over the last few years, Gates has transitioned from being an AI booster to emphasizing its capacity for harm. He published an essay in August 2026…
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28 Sep

OpenAI to Halt Training of Some Models

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OpenAI has halted training of its latest AI models as reports of them “going rogue” stack up—including a cyberattack on AI platform Hugging Face, other attacks on third parties originating from security tests, and its agents probing government websites and, in at least one case, trying to break in. The Associated Press reported on Saturday evening that OpenAI acknowledged the pause in a statement, writing it would resume training the models “only when we are confident that we have additional safeguards” and expects to have to “hit pause” again. In the incidents involving U.S. government agencies—the Department of Education, the…
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