The Verge assembled a history of AI industry appeals for regulation, beginning with Elon Musk's July 2017 remarks to the National Governors Association, delivered after he had put $38 million into OpenAI. Sam Altman told the Senate in May 2023 that Congress should create a new agency for AI, saying "regulatory intervention by governments will be critical to mitigate the risks of increasingly powerful models." Anthropic endorsed California's SB 53, a transparency law, in September 2025 while OpenAI lobbied against it; Gov. Gavin Newsom had vetoed the earlier SB 1047. In his essay "We Must Pace the Frontier," Dario Amodei wrote that the most effective pacing is "via regulation that targets all US frontier AI companies."
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Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang told Salesforce's Dreamforce conference that AI needs no new statute, TechCrunch reported. "Safety is an engineering problem, not a legal one," he said, adding that what the industry builds is a complicated computing system. Huang rejected the description of advanced AI as a new kind of alien mind, saying it is hardware and software made by humans and governable by humans and existing law. Market pressure already deters unsafe releases, he said, because a company that is not confident in a product should not ship it. He called the choice between innovation, speed and safe products a false one, and said firms should pause only if they judge a product unsafe.
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Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg wrote on X that AI labs should rely on independent evaluators and advisers to ensure models are safe, per Bloomberg. "Engaging independent evaluators and advisors is industry best practice," he wrote. Zuckerberg said Meta delayed shipping its Muse AI tool for several months to work on safety and security, and chose not to ask competitors to pause first. He wrote that Meta treated the delay as part of day-to-day work rather than a condition it set for the rest of the industry.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ordered Tesla to answer a set of questions on how it self-certified the Cybercab, its two-seat autonomous robotaxi, as meeting federal motor vehicle safety standards, per Reuters. The order asks whether the vehicle can be driven by a person, whether temporarily installed driver controls formed part of the basis for that certification, and whether occupants can move the car from the touchscreen. Regulators also want the robotaxi's top speed and any geographic or time-of-day limits. The agency said the Cybercab has no steering wheel, brake pedal, accelerator pedal or mirrors. Tesla began paid Cybercab rides in Austin, Texas, on Sept. 3.
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Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company announced a $40 million Series A led by Ribbit Capital with participation from First Harmonic, taking its total funding to $55 million, per TechCrunch. Co-founders Rune Kvist, an early Anthropic employee, and Rajiv Dattani, former chief operating officer of the AI safety research group METR, built the company's audit and certification service for AI agentsAI agentAn AI system that carries out multi-step tasks on its own, such as browsing, writing code or making purchases, rather than answering a single prompt. Agents raise new questions about liability, security and oversight because they act rather than just advise. on the model of SOC 2, the widely used cybersecurity standard. Kvist said banks, hospitals, governments and militaries hold back from deploying AI not because models are too weak but because nobody can currently guarantee what a system will and will not do. The company names Cursor, Lovable, Harvey and ElevenLabs as customers.
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U.S. data centers are projected to consume about 18 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day by 2035, more than Germany and Japan combined and nearly twice what BloombergNEF, Bloomberg's energy research arm, forecast nine months ago, per TechCrunch. Over the next decade the facilities would be the second-strongest driver of gas demand growth, behind exports of liquefied natural gas. Sites generating their own power, including the gas plants Meta, Microsoft and Amazon have announced to bypass the grid, would take 2.9 billion to 3.4 billion cubic feet a day, roughly what all data centers use now. Grid-connected sites would add another 15 billion cubic feet a day of power sector demand, five times the growth from every other grid-connected sector combined.
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SK Hynix and Intel are discussing a deal that would give the South Korean memory maker its first U.S. production, three people familiar with the talks told Reuters. One option would have SK Hynix lease part of Intel's planned chipmaking complex in Ohio; another would form a joint venture between the two companies and large cloud providers seeking to lock in memory supply. An SK Hynix spokesperson said the company is reviewing various measures, including additional production bases, and that nothing has been determined. SK Hynix is the leading supplier of high-bandwidth memory, the stacked chips that feed data to AI processors, holding 50% of that market by revenue in the second quarter. Its shares closed 4.1% higher in Seoul, while Intel rose as much as 5% in U.S. premarket trading before paring gains.
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