AI

AMD has agreed to acquire World Labs, an AI research lab co-founded by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal worth approximately $8.2 billion.

Anthropic’s IPO prospectus pairs explosive growth with unusually blunt warnings that its AI could create “existential risks to humanity.” Nearly a third of the filing is devoted to risk factors, according to the Financial Times, which reviewed it.

OpenAI has halted the release of GPT-6.1 Astra after tests found it could mislead users, act without permission and access external services unsafely.

Meta’s AI agent Muse gave a Facebook Marketplace buyer Matt Robb’s Toronto address without permission, sending the buyer’s family to Robb’s apartment for a keyboard sale the seller never knew was arranged.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese warned that artificial intelligence is advancing at a “furious pace,” urging governments to help shape its development before powerful autonomous systems outpace existing safeguards.