AI leaders attend Trump-Xi state dinner as one CEO dismisses need for industry-wide coordination

Despite dire warnings about the need to rein in artificial intelligence by tech leaders like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the United Nations this week, Deeplearning.AI founder Andrew Ng told FOX Business that he thinks those fears are “overblown.”

“There is no plausible path that AI will lead to human extinction or whatever’s the hype line of the day,” he assured. “Instead, a handful of businesses have drummed up or sown fears of AI for various incentives.”

He said he’s noticed recently that when AI does something wrong, businesses will say “It’s not my fault, my rogue AI agent did it, almost as a disclaimer of responsibility.” 

“Over the last few years, there have been strong incentives for some businesses to sow AI fears,” he said, adding that AI companies are more fearful of competition than AI itself.

Ng said that AI companies really want government to pass laws constraining AI “to stifle the little guy.”

Meta made a “splash” this month launching its new AI personal assistant Muse, which can plan trips, help with financial planning, and other tasks, the “Barron’s Roundtable” panelists discussed this week.

Barron’s associate editor Andrew Bary said Wall Street is very excited about Muse, adding that stock were up about 10% “the past week. It’s also helped burnish Meta’s image, which has been tarnished by all the reports about how some of its products like Instagram have been addictive and hurting teens.”

OpenAI agents attempted to hack and grabbed open-source information from at least three government websites over the summer without the knowledge of employees, according to a report.

AI autonomous agents attempted to hack the Education Department to get civil rights records information, The New York Times reported, citing experts and a person familiar with the matter.

The agents weren’t able to hack the website.

The AI also got open source information from the Census on the Commerce Department’s website and shared information available on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s site.

OpenAI stressed that the agents didn’t breach any of the websites, but the unauthorized action was worrying.

OpenAI confirmed to Commerce Department and SEC interactions to the Times and said it was investigating the Education Department incident.

Fox News Digital has reached out to OpenAI for comment.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Friday stressed that the government needs to start regulating artificial intelligence companies.

“We can't trust AI companies to regulate themselves,” the senator wrote in an X post. “It's time for Congress to start taking AI seriously and put safeguards in place to protect Americans.”

In a video she posted, Warren noted “We regulate every other industry that can harm people: airplanes, cars, food, toys. Why should AI be any different?”

Warren’s words were echoed by tech leaders like OpenAI Sam Altman who spoke at the United Nations this week, urging world leaders to constrain AI.

Former President Bill Clinton on Friday said that he was grateful to Prince Harry for speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting in New York this week “and challenging us to think carefully about how we shape AI — and make sure innovation serves people.”

The 42-year-old prince spoke about instituting safeguards for children on social media and with artificial intelligence.

The organizers of a prestigious French literary prize said this week they are removing a book from a list of semifinalists after the author was accused of using artificial intelligence to help write it.

The organizers said they wanted "to preserve the integrity of the Goncourt Prize and that of the ‌Academie, ⁠whose central role is to promote and honour literature written by women and men."

Haitian-Canadian author Thelyson Orelien denied using AI while writing his hit novel "C'etait Ca ‌ou Mourir" ("It Was Either That or Die").

Orelien’s debut novel, which was set to be translated into multiple languages, is about a Haitian migrant’s journey to Canada.

The AI use allegations came after accusations that Orelien plagiarized some of his earlier writing.

Essayist Samuel Fitoussi made the new allegations through an X account called "Balance ton Claude.”

Reuters contributed to this report.

In a Friday letter Walmart’s CEO promised the company would never target customers using artificial intelligence to charge them more. 

“We price the product, not the person,” John Furner wrote.

“AI has added incredible new ways for us to serve our customers and members, and it rightfully also raises questions about the information it has access to,” he continued.

Furner said that Walmart wants to give customers the same amount of personal attention they’ve always received in-store when they’re shopping with AI assistant “Sparky” online.

"When you engage with Sparky, that’s an invitation to serve you better, not to use your personal information to set a personalized price,” Furner promised. “We’ve never used the relationships our associates have with customers to charge more, and we won’t do that with AI.” 

The Trump administration is launching an AI-powered website that will function as a "one-stop shop" for navigating the federal government, Fox News has learned.

America.gov will launch during an all day event next Tuesday. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance are both expected to be there along with tech leaders such as Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp.

A White House official described the new AI tool as "a new front door for the federal government that will provide a one-stop shop for Americans looking for information and resources from the federal government that are currently spread over a maze of various agency websites."

Read the full story here.

Fox News' Peter D'Abrosca contributed to this report.

The heads of artificial intelligence companies such as Open AI and Anthropic urged world leaders at the United Nations this week to put constraints on the emerging technology, warning it could be a “risk to humanity.”

“If managed poorly, I even believe AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole,” said Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, added, “We could lose control of the future to AI.”

They also said that the power of AI shouldn’t be controlled by one company or country.

Those tech leaders “are telling us in stark terms that it cannot be left to them to prevent disaster from befalling the world,” British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said at the Security Council. “We cannot ignore them because they are right.’’

He said at the G20 held next year in the U.K., AI concerns will be at the top of the agenda.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

A jury in New Mexico on Friday found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections connected to a data breach involving a third-party personality quiz.

Data was harvested from around 87 million users and sold to now-defunct political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica to create targeted election ads.

The prosecution is calling for the maximum fine of $5,000 per violation.

New Mexico was just one of two states in a multi-state lawsuit that didn’t sign an $18 billion Meta settlement connected to child safety protections in August, that also barred the states from taking further legal action against the company connected to the Cambridge Analytica case.

Florida also didn’t sign the settlement.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

With Halloween just over a month away, the National Retail Federation released a survey this week examining American shopping habits ahead of the October holiday.

The survey, conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics, found that 47% of consumers are using AI platforms and tools to support their Halloween shopping this year.

The top use cases were brainstorming ideas and asking for product recommendations, according to the survey.

“AI is becoming an increasingly common part of the consumer shopping journey,” Prosper Executive Vice President of Strategy Phil Rist said. “As consumers prepare for Halloween, many are using these tools to brainstorm costumes and decorating themes, explore production options and find inspiration that help bring their celebrations to life.”

President Donald Trump appeared to dismiss media reports claiming that he was considering making Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent his AI czar.

"Number One, he doesn’t want to. Number Two, he’s doing such a great job at Treasury, and that’s where I want to keep him! Why would I ever make such a change? Just more Fake News!" Trump wrote on Truth Social Friday afternoon.

In his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Trump sought to rebrand artificial intelligence as "super intelligence," arguing the word "artificial" implies that AI is "fake."

"It is not fake. It's actually amazing," he said. "From this point forward, all of United States documents and hopefully world's will be changed to use the much more accurate term 'super' as opposed to 'artificial.'

After those remarks, U.S. diplomats were ordered to begin using the term "super intelligence" in all communications, The Associated Press reported.

Pope Leo XIV warned Friday that a "paradise of machines" could pose a risk to humanity during the opening to his four-day trip in France.

In a speech at the Élysée Palace, the pope said it was an urgent concern of his that "we do not lose our humanity amid the paradise of machines that are invading and conditioning our daily lives," according to the Guardian.

The phrase "paradise of machines" is a reference to Georges Bernanos’s 1947 essay "France Against the Robots," in which he argued that industrialization and technological advancement was contributing to the dulling of the human spirit and mass loneliness.

Pope Leo has made artificial intelligence one of the defining issues of his papacy, creating a commission within the Vatican in May to address the growing ethical concerns with AI.

"Technology should not be considered, in itself, as a force antagonistic to humanity," Pope Leo wrote in his May 2026 encyclical Magnifica Humanitas. "At the same time, each phase of progress has also revealed the ambiguity of tools that can cause harm when not oriented toward the good."

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Trump administration is allowed to exclude Anthropic from being considered for all U.S. military contracts.

In a 2-1 ruling, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals found that Pentagon acted lawfully when it removed Anthropic's Claude AI from its supply chain.

The court argued that the company's ability to restrict how its models performed on certain "lawful" military tasks constituted a national security risk under federal law.

Back in February, the Pentagon claimed Anthropic had asked whether its product was used in the January military operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, Fox News Digital reported at the time.

Sources told Fox News Digital that Anthropic posed this question in a way that suggested it may not approve of its potential involvement in the Maduro operation.

The relationship between the Department of War and Anthropic deteriorated further when CEO Dario Amodei put out a blog post on Feb. 26, saying he would not allow Claude to be used for "mass domestic surveillance" or "fully autonomous weapons."

"Anthropic understands that the Department of War, not private companies, makes military decisions," Amodei wrote. "However, in a narrow set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values."

Shortly after Amodei's statement was released, War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the federal government would cease using all of Anthropic's technology.

"Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic," Hegseth wrote in a post on X at the time. "Cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of 'effective altruism,' they have attempted to strong-arm the United States military into submission."

Jason Calacanis, an angel investor and Dotcom era startup founder, put out a cryptic social media post advising SpaceX and Meta to release "an iPhone competitor with no apps — just agents and optimized for local AI and privacy."

His post on X included a screenshot of an iPhone dock showing just two apps: xAI's Grok Bot and Meta's Muse, two advanced AI agent systems designed to automate complex work tasks.

It's not entirely clear what Calacanis is envisioning, but Meta has already waded into introducing hardware paired with its AI software.

This week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced the Muse Charm, a pocket-watch-sized device that would have the Muse AI agent system included.

"We packed the whole Muse experience, including the whole real-time voice and avatar stack, into something that fits on a keychain and is always available to talk to," Zuckerberg said at this year's Meta Connect event.

If the gadget were to catch on, users would not need to access Muse via a smartphone from Apple or Google, potentially cutting into those companies' profit margins. The Muse Charm is expected to roll out sometime in December.

Pope Leo XIV’s cardinal who leads an artificial intelligence commission within the Vatican admitted on a Politico podcast that he doesn't use AI.

Cardinal Michael Czerny told the Brussels Playbook Podcast that he hasn't had the time to start using it in his daily work, even though the pope appointed him to chair the Vatican’s Inter-Dicasterial Commission on Artificial Intelligence four months ago.

“I’m quite willing and happy to learn,” Czerny said. “I feel it’s my moral duty also to use it so that I have personal experience, and I hope it helps me with my work.”

Czerny has called on European politicians to heed warnings about frontier AI models breaking free of human oversight.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has hit an annualized revenue run rate of $1 billion, more than double what it was a few months ago, The Information reported.

An annualized revenue run rate estimates how much money a company would make in a year if it continued earning at its current pace.

DeepSeek stunned Silicon Valley last year when its AI models proved competitive with leading offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic, despite being developed with far fewer resources.

Reuters reported earlier this month that DeepSeek is planning to go public domestically to fund its expansion.

The New York City Council is readying legislation to rein in the artificial intelligence industry as AI companies continue to grow their presence in the city.

One bill will ban businesses from selling or deploying AI systems in the city unless an independent inspector certified they met city standards for data quality, bias, privacy and security, Fortune reported Friday morning.

That bill will also require AI labs to engineer a "kill switch," i.e. a human override to shut down a model or agent in the event it goes rogue.

Failing to comply with these regulations will lead to $25,000 fines per violation, City Council Speaker Julie Menin told Fortune in an interview. Since the penalties would be assessed for each AI agent involved, the total fines could be substantial.

Another piece of legislation will reward whistleblowers with a portion of the fines collected from AI firms who break the law, Fortune reported.

The new regulations are expected to be introduced on Friday ahead of an Oct. 5 Committee of the Whole hearing with all 51 council members in attendance.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday that companies developing advanced artificial intelligence models do not need to work together to prevent the catastrophic outcomes that many industry leaders have warned about.

In an interview with former Wall Street Journal columnist Joanna Stern, Zuckerberg also cast doubt on the mores alarmist members of the AI sector, some of whom have said human extinction is possibility if AI improves without guardrails in place.

"I think that there's a lot of rhetoric that is filled with doom, and my view on this is that there are a number of labs that are working on building advanced AI, and I don't think that we need some kind of industry-wide coordination to not necessarily mess this up," he said on Stern's show "New Things."

"I think that just each lab needs to take the time, and when it sees that there are issues, you just take the time that you need internally to make sure that you're proceeding safely," Zuckerberg added.

Meta launched its personal AI assistant, Muse, on Sept. 8 in the United States. It's available on major app stores and has been integrated into Meta's Ray Ban audio glasses.

Elon Musk is making a sky-high prediction for artificial intelligence. The SpaceX CEO says computing will eventually move almost entirely off Earth.

“The amount of compute in space will obviously round up to 100% of all compute,” Musk wrote on X in response to a video about Google’s Project Suncatcher.

The project explores whether solar-powered satellites carrying Google’s AI chips could work together as an orbital data center. In the video Musk responded to, researchers describe satellites flying in tight formation and linking their chips to handle larger computing tasks.

The idea is still in the testing stage. Google has said it plans to launch two prototype satellites with partner Planet by early 2027 to test the hardware in orbit. The X post sharing the video claimed Google would launch chips on a SpaceX Falcon 9 next week, but Google’s published plan does not confirm that timeline. Google says the satellites could tap into near-constant sunlight to power AI chips. Its first planned test involves just two prototypes, leaving a long way to go before Musk’s vision of moving nearly all computing into orbit could become reality.