Urgent.News

What's breaking now, across thousands of outlets.

AI

Thoughts on AI labs' safety concerns: a coordinated slowdown may look like an antitrust conspiracy to limit output that would preserve frontier model margins (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)

AI and antitrust, lockups and indexes, annuities, Montessori and sudden wealth syndrome. — P(doom)

We haven't written up this one. Techmeme has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

Read the original at bloomberg.com →

More in AI

Nuance Labs bags $50M in funding to fix the awkwardness of AI avatars

Nuance Labs, a Seattle-based startup that’s trying to make artificial intelligence models better at face-to-face conversations, said today it has closed on a $50 million early-stage funding round to make that happen. Today’s Series A round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, which previously backed the company’s seed funding round.

[Insight] AI CEOs Hit the Brakes, Shaking a $700 Billion Investment Cycle

Financial markets reacted sharply after the leaders of companies at the forefront of artificial intelligence began openly calling for a slower pace of development. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged AI companies to slow advances in frontier model capabilities, while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI chief

  • AI leaders call for slower development amid safety concerns
  • Major tech stocks drop 5.9% on AI investment concerns
  • $1 trillion AI expansion faces financing challenges

More from Tuesday 15 September →