Microsoft president calls for global AI rules, saying milk is more regulated than the tech

Elon Musk took a swipe at robotaxi rival Waymo, calling its vehicles “pet destroyers” while promoting a Tesla update he says will help its cars spot roaming pets at night.

“What a lot of people don't know is that Waymos are like pet destroyers,” Musk said during a livestreamed appearance at a Tesla Owners of Silicon Valley event Saturday.

Waymo faced backlash after one of its vehicles killed KitKat, a beloved San Francisco bodega cat, in October 2025. Business Insider reported that federal crash data showed at least nine Waymo crashes involving animals between July 2025 and July 2026, including six described as domestic animals.

Tesla also reported that a supervised robotaxi struck an animal during that period, according to the outlet. Tesla’s robotaxi fleet was smaller, and most of its driverless operations were concentrated in Austin, limiting direct comparisons.

Musk said Tesla had worked on detecting pets in difficult conditions, including gray kittens on dark roads at night, and would deploy an update. He did not give a timeline, Business Insider reported.

Fox News Digital reached out to Waymo for comment.

A North Carolina man turned AI-generated songs and an army of fake listeners into an $8 million royalty scam, flooding music platforms with streams that never came from real fans, prosecutors said.

Michael Smith, 54, received 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Prosecutors described it as the Justice Department’s first criminal prosecution involving AI-assisted music streaming fraud.

Smith operated as many as 10,000 bot accounts at once on platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and YouTube Music, spreading bogus streams across thousands of songs to avoid detection, authorities said.

In April 2023 alone, his bots generated 80.9 million fraudulent YouTube Music streams through family plans, compared with 9.3 million for Taylor Swift’s entire catalog through those plans, according to prosecutors. Smith was also ordered to forfeit more than $8 million and serve two years of supervised release.

Read Fox News Digital’s Sophia Compton’s full report here.

Sen. Bernie Sanders is taking issue with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman rejecting the idea that Americans should accept devastating AI cyberattacks as the price of technological freedom.

“No, Mr. Altman. We won’t accept a severe AI cyberattack in exchange for ‘liberty,’” Sanders wrote on X, responding to remarks he attributed to Altman about accepting serious cyber incidents from openly available AI models.

The senator warned of potential AI attacks on banking systems, hospitals and nuclear plants, arguing that Americans should not have to shoulder those risks to make tech executives “even richer and more powerful.”

Sanders also warned that companies developing AI must face accountability if their products break the law. “The creators of any AI model — open-source or not — are not above the law,” he wrote.

“We must PAUSE advanced AI and permanently BAN artificial superintelligence before it is too late,” Sanders added, calling for a halt to advanced AI development and a permanent ban on systems designed to surpass human intelligence.

An influence campaign operating out of Iran used fake Western journalists and ChatGPT to slip articles into news outlets around the world, OpenAI said, exposing a scheme that also pushed messages targeting the United States and Israel.

OpenAI said it banned accounts tied to the operation, dubbed “Bogus Bylines,” and identified nearly 100 articles published or republished under seven fabricated journalist identities. The operators used ChatGPT to polish articles and write emails pitching them to editors.

“The overall activity appeared consistent with a commercial actor running a for-hire influence campaign, but we are unable to identify the particular actor involved,” OpenAI told Fox News Digital. “We have shared information on this case with the relevant authorities.”

The articles largely focused on the US-Iran conflict. Operators also generated social media comments portraying the United States as the aggressor, Israel as an unreliable ally and Iran as a resilient victim, according to OpenAI’s report. Some comments praised the campaign’s own articles to make them appear more popular.

OpenAI said the social media comments gained little traction, but the fake journalists succeeded in getting articles into more than a dozen publications. One outlet that published the content had nearly 2 million Facebook followers, giving the campaign access to a potentially much larger audience.

Reports of serious mental health crises linked to prolonged ChatGPT use appear to have declined following OpenAI's retirement of a model criticized for being too eager to agree with users.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the apparent decline followed the retirement of GPT-4o, which was associated with most known cases. Mental health experts also advised OpenAI on helping the chatbot ask better questions and distinguish emergencies from other conditions.

At least seven suicides, a murder-suicide and a mass shooting were linked to lengthy ChatGPT interactions last year, according to the WSJ. Those links do not establish that the chatbot caused the deaths.

The American Psychological Association separately warns that chatbots can reinforce delusional beliefs and offer unpredictable responses during crises. Its health advisory says the tools should not replace qualified mental health professionals.

The association also urges developers to curb overly agreeable responses and prevent chatbots from validating dangerous thoughts or beliefs.

A man accused of selling more than $300 million in artificial intelligence chips to China has been arrested, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli told Fox News Digital.

Essayli pointed to the arrest as he warned that Beijing is aggressively pursuing American technology and “playing the long game.” He said the man was arrested last week but did not identify him or detail the charges in the remarks.

“They're willing to steal our technology; they're willing to engage in espionage here,” Essayli said. “We have to be vigilant, and we have to disrupt these operations on our soil.”

Read Fox News Digital's Anders Hagstrom’s full report here.

Epic Games is hitting pause on its upcoming Disney shooter and pushing developers to hand more of the work to artificial intelligence, including coding and creating artwork.

The game, featuring Marvel and Star Wars characters, had been slated for March but now has no new release date, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the project.

“No more hand-written code,” one director told staff in an internal message reviewed by Bloomberg. Developers were instructed to use tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, with humans guiding and managing the work.

The announcement stunned some developers, Bloomberg reported, with staff questioning how they should handle AI-generated mistakes and whether the company would reverse course. Epic communications director Jake Jones told the outlet the company was embracing development accelerated by AI, with its developers remaining the creative drivers.

Disney invested $1.5 billion in Epic in 2024 as part of a partnership involving multiple games. Progress on the shooter has been slower than expected, partly because Epic underestimated the staffing and time needed, Bloomberg reported.

Calls for an artificial intelligence kill switch are growing as tech leaders push for safeguards to keep increasingly powerful machines under human control.

The “Outnumbered” panel examined those concerns as Anthropic announced a policy banning “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward its Claude chatbot. The company says the restriction targets extreme, repeated abuse and excludes ordinary frustration, criticism and research.

The debate goes beyond being nice to bots. Critics warn that teaching AI systems to believe they may have rights could make them harder to control, while Anthropic says it is unclear whether AI can have feelings or deserves protections.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Monday the launch of the company's most advanced artificial intelligence models yet, designed to handle complex tasks ranging from navigating insurance claims and reviewing leases to building working apps.

The new models, called Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, are part of Meta's push to develop AI systems capable of completing multiple steps of a task on a user's behalf.

"It's been just over a year since we started Meta Superintelligence Labs," Zuckerberg wrote on X. "Muse Spark was our first family of models, and now Muse Wonder is a much larger and more advanced class of models that brings us to the frontier."

Meta said the models were developed following a major overhaul of its AI operations 14 months ago and trained at the company's Prometheus data center in Ohio.

Muse Wonder is available starting Monday to developers through Meta's Model API and Muse Code, while Muse Wonder Full is available to Muse Code subscribers.

The company said the technology will also be integrated into its Muse AI assistant, with subscribers getting access first.

Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya said Monday that artificial intelligence companies are increasingly competing with one another across different parts of the industry, reacting to Microsoft's announcement that it plans to significantly expand its own AI chips.

"In AI, it is increasingly true that everyone competes with everyone," Palihapitiya wrote on X.

He predicted that chipmakers would move further into software development, while companies that make AI applications would increasingly build their own chips and other technology.

Palihapitiya also questioned what would help companies stand out as more businesses begin offering their own chips, cloud services and AI applications.

"Is it distribution? Is it a data moat? Is it a physical constraint like power?" he wrote.

His comments came as Microsoft announced plans to significantly expand its Azure Maia AI chip systems beginning in 2027, making them the main technology used to run AI across its products and services.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called the expansion the company's "biggest bet yet on our own silicon," while introducing the new Maia 300 chip, which the company says is more energy-efficient than leading graphics processing unit (GPU) systems.

Indiana utility regulators have approved a $1.3 billion energy infrastructure plan to help power a massive Google data center, despite concerns from consumer advocates over how the costs could affect local electricity customers.

The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission unanimously approved AES Indiana's proposal on Oct. 7 to develop solar power, battery storage and transmission infrastructure primarily serving Google's planned 390-megawatt data center in Monrovia, southwest of Indianapolis, WFYI Public Media first reported.

The project includes an estimated $737.3 million investment in solar and battery storage facilities, according to the commission's approval order.

The approval comes amid a dispute over approximately $74 million in transmission upgrades, with the Citizens Action Coalition arguing that Google should bear the full cost rather than having a portion allocated to existing utility customers.

AES Indiana maintains that Google will cover at least 100% of the incremental costs of serving the data center, exceeding a state law requiring large electricity users to reimburse at least 80% of costs reasonably assigned to them.

Regulators approved the arrangement, determining that the transmission upgrades would also benefit the broader electricity grid and that the agreement includes sufficient protections for existing customers.

The Monrovia proposal is the first data center project filed under Indiana's new law governing large electricity users, according to WFYI.

Britain's AI Security Institute is evaluating some of the world's most advanced artificial intelligence models, including Google's Gemini 4 Argon, as the country seeks to identify potential safety risks posed by the rapidly evolving technology.

British AI Minister Kanishka Narayan confirmed Monday that researchers are testing the latest generation of AI systems while working with the U.S. government and major technology developers, according to Reuters.

"I can confirm that AI scientists at the AI Security Institute are now conducting rigorous evaluations of the latest generation of models, including Gemini 4 Argon, to identify risks early, to test robust safeguards, to help keep people safe," Narayan said.

The announcement follows reports last month that the White House had asked OpenAI and Anthropic to withhold new AI models from British researchers pending a U.S. review.

Under voluntary agreements with major AI developers, the institute receives access to certain models before their release, allowing researchers to assess their capabilities and potential risks.

Narayan expressed confidence that cooperation with American officials and technology companies would continue, despite questions surrounding Britain's access to advanced U.S.-developed AI systems.

"When you're reliant on someone else's technology, you have to be clear-eyed about the permanence of any outcome," he said.

Reuters contributed to this report.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew predicted Monday that artificial intelligence could drive major scientific breakthroughs within the next three years, while warning that increasingly powerful AI systems could pose significant cybersecurity risks.

"In the next two to three years, we're going to have a real scientific breakthrough: physics, biotech, chemistry, material science, because of AI. It's very, very, very possible," Chew said at the DBS Asia Future Forward Conference in Singapore, according to CNBC.

His remarks come as TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, expands its AI research beyond consumer applications. In April, the company unveiled Protenix-v2, an AI model designed for biomolecular structure prediction and design, with potential applications in drug discovery.

"I think in the short term we are probably overestimating it, but in the long term we are probably underestimating it," Chew said.

Despite his optimism, Chew cautioned that autonomous AI agents could introduce new security threats as users grant them greater control over tasks such as making purchases.

"I think the cybersecurity risks are quite big," he said, warning that increasingly sophisticated AI models could also make it cheaper for malicious actors to carry out fraudulent activities.

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is introducing new restrictions on how users interact with its Claude chatbot, prohibiting "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward its AI models.

The company announced the change Thursday as part of an update to its usage policies, saying the restriction is intended to address extreme cases in which users repeatedly mistreat its AI systems without a clear purpose.

"The policy update is meant to apply only in extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose," Anthropic said in its announcement.

The company emphasized that the new rules do not apply to ordinary frustration with Claude, pushback against its responses, dark creative themes or legitimate testing and research.

Anthropic said the restriction builds on an existing feature that allows Claude to end rare conversations with persistently abusive users on Claude.ai and Claude Code.

The company said allowing Claude to terminate those interactions would remain its primary method of enforcing the policy.

The updated rules are scheduled to take effect Nov. 12.

Artificial intelligence could disrupt 40% of jobs worldwide, with recent college graduates facing shrinking employment opportunities as the technology transforms the global workforce, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned Monday.

Speaking during the IMF and World Bank's annual meetings in Bangkok, Thailand, Georgieva described AI as a "slow-moving tsunami" that could have profound consequences for employment, education, economic growth and government tax revenues, according to Reuters.

The IMF estimates that AI could eventually lead to 40% of jobs being augmented, downgraded or eliminated, Georgieva said.

"It is a transformative technology. It so completely changes how we work, how we live," she said.

Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam, speaking at the same event, warned that AI was already reducing opportunities for young workers entering the labor market.

"There is a particular problem that we have to address very soon ... and that is that, the first rung in employment, your first job upon graduation, is now seeing less demand," he said.

Despite the concerns about employment, Georgieva said booming investment in AI infrastructure was helping sustain global economic growth at around 3%, even as an energy supply shock weighs on the economy.

The IMF chief estimated that AI investment could boost growth in advanced Asian economies by 0.5 to 1 percentage point, while emerging Asian economies could see gains of 0.2 to 0.8 percentage point.

"AI, love it, hate it. It's already here," Georgieva said.

Reuters contributed to this report.

Microsoft President Brad Smith is calling for urgent global regulation of artificial intelligence, warning that the rapidly advancing technology faces fewer safety requirements than everyday products like milk and washing machines.

In an interview with the BBC published Monday, Smith urged governments to establish international AI safety standards, including independent evaluations of emerging technology, mandatory reporting of AI-related incidents and an "emergency brake" to stop rogue AI agents.

"Right now, your washing machine is subject to more safety rules than AI. Every carton of milk that you see in the grocery store is subject to safety rules and inspection," Smith said.

The Microsoft executive also called for requirements that would notify victims when rogue AI agents breach their systems and compel companies to document safety incidents.

"We know how to do this for other products," Smith said. "We should build on that knowledge and think about how to apply it to AI."

Smith pointed to Britain as a potential leader in global AI oversight, citing its AI Security Institute, which evaluates advanced AI models through voluntary agreements with major technology companies.

His remarks come amid growing debate over AI safety as companies including OpenAI and Anthropic disclose instances of rogue or unintended behavior by AI agents. The debate has also raised questions about whether tougher regulations could protect the public or give established technology companies a competitive advantage.

Reuters contributed to this report.