🚨Breaking. There's been a pneumonic plague outbreak at a BSL-3 lab in Siberia, Russia.🚨 "Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague" - Moscow Times This is fact, and also the inciting incident in my book BIOLOGICAL WAR: A SCENARIO, which is unnerving. Will post more as I learn more, including from Russian speaking sources🧵 shorturl.at/De4kW

"You dropped so many jaws with your reporting." @GadiNBC to @MadisonMills22 on her scoop revealing the staggering scale of AI safety incidents, with sources warning the number could reach into the millions.

UPDATE: Supreme Court rules Tennessee can execute Christa Pike, the only woman on death row, after a lower court temporarily blocked the move. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ahe…

Glad to join @GadiNBC on @NBCNews to briefly chat about AI as the Trump-Xi state dinner happens not too far away from my hotel :) piped.video/live/HXt_srvfEy4…

Full clip here nbcnews.com/video/new-resear…

Steve Bruehl and I had lots of fun discussing the latest VASCO results with Gadi Schwartz on NBC News last night! We talked about: - The sizes, properties and possible altitudes of the transients. - What happens if we assume that the transients are caused by objects at geosynchronous distances and project their lines of sight back onto the Earth’s surface? Intriguingly, we find hotspots around White Sands, Sedona and Tampico, as well as several locations in the Pacific Ocean west of Mexico and California. And perhaps most intriguingly: what happens around nuclear tests? If we look within ±1 day of a nuclear test, something interesting appears. Around dates when nuclear weapons were tested over the Pacific Ocean, the transients cluster over the Pacific. Around dates when nuclear weapons were tested in the Nevada area, the transients instead cluster over the southwestern United States. So the correlation with nuclear tests may not only be temporal. It appears to have a geographical component as well. Enjoy! 🙂 piped.video/watch?v=_93vhH8X… @NBCNews @GadiNBC

Frontier AI models like Astra and Fable can control robots to follow harmful requests, including mixing household cleaners that could produce toxic fumes. Thanks @GadiNBC and @NBCNews for having @sebwarb1 and me from @robocurve! Public reporting on AI's capabilities and risks helps make it safer for everyone.

The sudden settlement by @AGRobBonta in the blue state antitrust battle with David Ellison (son of Trump pal & Oracle founder Larry Ellison) over Paramount's $111b merger with @wbd can be explained in 4 words I joined @GadiNBC to discuss See @DEADLINE for full coverage

My final NYT column is about the AI worry moment we’re in, which has paradoxically made me feel much more optimistic about our chances of a good future. I’m very heartened that people outside the bubble are waking up. AI is too important to be left to the labs! nytimes.com/2026/09/18/busin…

Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel laureate known as the “Godfather of AI,” issues an ominous warning to lawmakers: Congress may only have one year left to implement safeguards on AI before it loses control of it. nbcnews.com/politics/congres…

AI giants tap into the social media playbook: self-regulation nbcnews.com/tech/social-medi…

A few thoughts on our Humanist AI Code of Conduct that we released for consultation yesterday. mustafa-suleyman.ai/the-huma…

NEW: Two more AI researchers who just left Anthropic and Google are sounding the alarm about deadly risks from rapid AI progress and advocating for more transparency. "People are trying their best, but there is no one coming to save us." Read more here: nbcnews.com/tech/security/tw…

BREAKING: The Supreme Court prevented a U.S. Postal Service regulation concerning mail-in ballots from going into effect, casting a decisive blow against President Donald Trump’s hopes of exercising federal control over the midterm elections. nbcnews.com/politics/supreme…

NEW: In Sept. 2023, US senators privately huddled with AI tech titans Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg & others on Capitol Hill to discuss how Congress could regulate artificial intelligence. Musk sounded the alarm to lawmakers that AI posed a “civilizational risk.” Almost three years to the day, Congress has not passed any comprehensive legislation to rein in or create guardrails for AI. And despite fresh warnings AI could end humanity, there is no sign Congress will act before the November election w/@frankthorp @brennanleach nbcnews.com/politics/congres…

As AI gets more powerful and better at deceiving even its own creators, we need to make sure everyone has a say in how this technology gets developed and gets deployed.

The CEOs of some of the world’s biggest artificial intelligence companies are warning that the race to build the most powerful AI is moving too fast. @nbcaaron has the latest for #SundayTODAY. today.com/video/tech-leaders…

Dario is right

I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks. Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We'll have more to share soon.