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Anthropic is weighing a new AI model launch to counter OpenAI’s GPT‑6 Astra, amid rising enterprise interest and investor scrutiny ahead of its anticipated IPO. Sources say the company is balancing safety concerns—highlighted by CEO Dario Amodei’s recent essay urging a slowdown in AI capability releases—with the need to defend its market share. The move follows GPT‑6 Astra’s rapid adoption in business settings and growing pressure from open‑source competitors, especially in China, to deliver sustainable profits amid [...]

ConsoneAI, a Wetherby‑based AI firm, has been named a finalist in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2026 Emerging Technologies Competition for its drug‑development platform, DioScor. The system predicts drug efficacy and side‑effects across genders, ethnicities, and age groups in 90 seconds, using AI to model human and animal responses while accounting for genetic and demographic variables. Founder Mo Kosar highlighted the platform’s potential to shorten drug approval timelines and reduce bias in clinical trials. DioScor also offers a [...]

President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he will establish an “AI Force” and appoint an AI “czar” to oversee artificial‑intelligence regulation, rejecting calls for a slowdown in AI development. He criticized Democrats for labeling AI, the Russia‑Ukraine war, and climate change as hoaxes, and vowed to protect the industry from what he calls “destruction.” Trump’s post follows Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and Elon Musk’s appeals for cautious AI progress and California Governor Gavin Newsom’s executive order to create a [...]

The International Luxury Hotel Association (ILHA) has added an AI‑focused panel to its INSPIRE 2026 conference, which runs Dec. 15‑17 at the JW Marriott Bonnet Creek Resort in Orlando. The session, “AI at Scale: Building the Business Case for Hospitality,” brings together Rodney Linville of Nobu Hospitality, Shane O’Flaherty of Microsoft, and Neha Jaitpal of Honeywell, with ILHA President Barak Hirschowitz moderating. Speakers will examine the economics of AI deployment in luxury hotels, covering pilot returns, obstacles, and the [...]

AI executives and policymakers are locked in a heated debate over whether to deliberately slow the development of increasingly powerful artificial‑intelligence models. Prominent leaders such as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella have voiced support for a “pace‑the‑frontier” approach, calling for deliberate throttling and independent safety evaluations. Critics, including former President Donald Trump, dismiss the warnings as a hoax, while others fear that any slowdown could cede strategic advantage to China. The controversy [...]

A Goldman Sachs Research report released on September 20, 2026 finds that AI adoption in major developed economies is between 15 % and 20 %, with France, the United States, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom at the upper end. The study shows that industries most exposed to automation—particularly information and communication services, call centres, software publishing and advertising—have experienced a slowdown in job openings since the second half of 2022. The United States saw the sharpest decline, with call‑centre employment 39 % below [...]

President Donald Trump will host Chinese President Xi Jinping at a White House state dinner on September 24, inviting top U.S. tech leaders to discuss AI and semiconductor policy. Reported attendees include OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Apple executive chairman Tim Cook, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who recently called for a slowdown in AI development, has not been confirmed. The guest list reflects the administration’s focus on chip supply chains and AI regulation, with Amodei’s pacing proposal relying [...]

Nvidia’s Vice President of Product, Adel el Hallak, revealed that he runs the company’s DGX Spark AI workstation in his home, treating it like an appliance that works overnight on personal tasks. The DGX Spark, priced at $4,699, can run open‑source models locally, eliminating the need to send data to cloud servers for services such as ChatGPT or Perplexity. El Hallak argues that local AI protects privacy, avoids subscription fees, and offers unlimited queries without usage caps, though the hardware cost [...]