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AI's extinction warning, and the data center backlash
A departing Anthropic researcher says we are gambling with humanity, while AI quietly takes over grocery carts, golf broadcasts and rural power grids.
In brief
A departing Anthropic researcher says we are gambling with humanity, while AI quietly takes over grocery carts, golf broadcasts and rural power grids. The loudest AI fight is no longer about chatbots, it is about who carries the risk: researchers warning of extinction, and towns deciding whether a data center is worth…
He quit over the odds
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon left the company saying the industry is gambling with human life, and that an AI takeover could arrive before the decade is out.
“Former Anthropic researcher warns 'AI takeover' could happen by end of decade”
People want rules now
Coxon says the public is already asking to be protected. His read is that ordinary people are begging for regulation while the labs race each other.
Grief tech from 9/11
Twenty five years after the attacks, a 9/11 hero's son built an AI tool to help people work through grief and trauma, carrying his father's legacy forward.
Apple folds, Meta assists
Apple showed the foldable iPhone Duo at John Ternus's first event as CEO. A day earlier Meta shipped a personal AI agent built to run your daily errands.
Bioweapon prompts blocked
Anthropic said it disrupted several attempts this year to push its models toward biological research that could feed weapons work, banning accounts and tightening safeguards.
A golfer who isn't real
The New Mexico Open broadcast adds commentator Duff Foreman alongside Notah Begay III and Ryan Burr. Foreman is not on site, because Foreman is not a person.
Washington buys in cheap
The Trump administration cut a deal with OpenAI to put frontier models on federal employees' desks at a steep discount, Fox News Digital reported.
The data center revolt
A GOP insider predicts Trump's support for data center expansion shifts once midterm voters speak. One pitch to calm the backlash: pay residents a dividend.
What to remember
The loudest AI fight is no longer about chatbots, it is about who carries the risk: researchers warning of extinction, and towns deciding whether a data center is worth the electricity.
