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It’s not AI anymore, it’s ‘super intelligence’ (according to the White House). This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super intelligence,” and meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI are putting friendlier faces on their AI products, even as the biggest money […].

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Circuit Breaker Labs hopes to make AI safer for your kids (and you). With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it's easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people psychologically. Circuit Breaker Labs has created "crash-test dummies" to solve that.

These AI Experts Want to Do High-Stakes Research Out in the Open. Many frontier labs keep their risky research locked away. Trillium Labs wants to show off its work when it comes to self-improvement and model behavior.

Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery to become Skydance. The roughly $110 billion deal is expected to close October 6.

Pope Leo XIV is not a fan of AI-generated art. "There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others," the pope wrote. "Algorithms lack the spark of humanity.".