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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made quite the comparison while weighing in on artificial intelligence leaders who have increasingly made calls for stronger government guardrails and a slowdown in AI’s accelerating development

Yet one serious danger is mentioned less frequently — the threat posed by AI — empowered lethal weapons

The savings reportedly grew from $700 million in 2023 to $3.9 billion in 2025

Several executives gathered at the White House have called for slowdown in development of technology after several incidents of AI agents having gone rogue

Donald Trump calls Google CEO Sundar Pichai 'monster' at 'Super Intelligence' summit

The list of grievances is long: slop, cheating, bias, enfeeblement, electricity bills, environmental destruction, exploitation, theft, cybercrime, doom

Mr. Trump on Thursday dined with other A.I. executives during a state dinner for President Xi Jinping of China

New York Governor Kathy Hochul warned ‘Anyone who goes in or near the water this weekend is literally gambling with their life’

Trump attempts to rebrand AI in unhinged UN speech

Yet during his White House summit with President Trump, he sometimes smiled and even laughed, projecting a warmth unusual for a meeting between superpower rivals

Those concerns stretch across the realities of AI’s growth today and more speculative possibilities raised by some technologists and whistle-blowers

As President Donald Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping at a White House summit that put artificial intelligence, technology competition and semiconductor policy at the center of discussions between the world's two largest economies, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates issued a stark warning about the potential dangers of AI

Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates on Wednesday called for lawmakers in Washington to regulate the development of artificial intelligence, weeks after the CEOs of some of the nation’s biggest AI labs agreed on the need to slow the pace of AI progress

Trump Tests Out ‘Super Intelligence’ as AI Rebrand

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres delivered his final address before the UNGA on Tuesday

While this response alarmed many in democratic Taiwan, many people around the globe hope that Xi can prove similarly persuasive on another issue of grave importance when he travels to the White House on Sept 24: artificial intelligence

The U.S. president wants tech companies to go on the cyber-offensive

More than 90 per cent of the data used to train early large language models came from English-language sources, with leading AI speech-recognition systems makeing errors less than 6 per cent of the time in English

Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind are stepping up work on biological risk testing, access controls and other safeguards to limit misuse of advanced AI systems that they hope will speed up drug discovery, aid disease research and prevent pandemics

The Vermont independent posted a string of messages on X this week and asked his followers to guess who wrote them

When the world came together in Paris a decade ago and agreed upon a 1.5 degree global warming target, the mood verged on jubilant

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Next week's jobs report should also give some clarity on the path for monetary policy, after Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh doubled down on a stance against inflation even with growing pockets of weakness in the U.S. economy

It’s possible that the bull market, powered by investor euphoria about artificial intelligence, could have years to run

China opposes practice of overstretching national security concept: FM on US banning foreign equipment from US energy grid

Five people sit in folding chairs pushed up against a wall, all of them on their phones and several looking board

Bill Gates: I was 'foolish' to spend time with Jeffrey Epstein

Bill Gates Warns A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit

In March, Washington launched investigations based on Section 301 of its 1974 Trade Act against 16 economies, including China, over what it called structural excess capacity and production in manufacturing sectors

President Trump on Monday lashed out at the Center for American Progress (CAP), a liberal think tank, after it released a report last month suggesting the National Guard deployments failed to reduce violent crime

The interview was released on Thursday, and Musk was apparently still bugged enough that he called Beddoes “a traitor to the West” in response to a post from Rael Braverman, a member of right-wing political party Reform UK and the husband of former U.K. Home Secretary Suella Braverman

The philanthropic organisation released its findings on Tuesday following a several-month external review conducted by the law firm WilmerHale

On Tuesday, Buffett's firm Berkshire Hathaway stopped giving donations to the Microsoft co-founder's charity for the first time in 20 years and instead handed his remaining stock to foundations linked to his family

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Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Are Still Giving Away Their Fortunes

Buffett drops Gates charity from donation of $6bn Berkshire stake

Phia, created by Phoebe Gates, faced allegations of misattributing online sales through deceptive coding practices

A decision could come later in the year when he releases his annual Thanksgiving letter

Gates Told Congress Epstein Considered Blackmail Over Affairs

Her three children have all left home, she goes by “Nonna” to her two granddaughters, and as an empty nester she finds herself in the strange position of having time on her hands

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates delivered a series of striking personal and political claims during congressional testimony this week focused on his past association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein