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BBC News and The Guardian reported on September 12 that Dario Amodei, CEO of leading AI company Anthropic, publicly called for AI developers worldwide to voluntarily slow the pace of frontier model research and deployment. He warned that the industry’s race-style expansion carries uncontrollable risks and emphasized that both regulators and companies must establish deceleration mechanisms at a broader scale. This rare public appeal from a leading AI company CEO has drawn significant global attention from the tech community, regulators, and capital markets.

An in-depth New York Times investigation published September 12 found that internal conversations about artificial general intelligence loss-of-control and human extinction scenarios have significantly intensified inside leading US AI companies in recent months, expanding from small safety research teams into product teams and board-level discussions at multiple firms including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind. Citing more than ten current and former executives, researchers, and government officials, the report indicates that this anxiety has grown exponentially over the past three months and has entered public view through resignation letters, academic papers, and media interviews, marking what industry insiders describe as the first time AI panic has spread at a pace approaching a mainstream public topic.

Apple has officially launched the Apple Watch Series 12, bringing multiple upgrades over the previous generation Series 11 in display brightness, processing performance, and health monitoring features. According to tech media reports, the new watch also includes one feature that Apple did not mention at the launch event, which has become a talking point after the announcement. The launch of the Apple Watch Series 12 continues Apple’s annual iteration cadence in the wearables market and further consolidates its product positioning in the health monitoring space.

The Governor of California recently signed a new wave of legislation restricting minors’ use of social media, requiring major social platforms to implement stricter age verification for underage users, limit addictive feature design, and impose systematic constraints on the impact of recommendation algorithms on adolescent mental health. The legislation is widely seen as a landmark move by a US state to strengthen regulation of the tech industry amid a standstill at the federal level.

Europe has competitive battery technology reserves in several niche segments, but the overall industry chain is still dominated by Chinese manufacturers. Multiple European companies and policy bodies are attempting to drive the catch-up of the local battery industry through combinations of subsidies, industry alliances and upstream material security, and whether these efforts will succeed is attracting widespread attention.

Anthropic has disclosed in its latest safety report that it has proactively identified and blocked multiple suspicious attempts by criminal actors and researchers to use its AI models to develop biological weapons. The disclosure once again places the dual-use risks of generative AI at the center of global regulatory scrutiny.

Apple has made its biggest change to the iPhone release cadence in seven years at new CEO John Ternus’ first major product showcase.

Apple’s upcoming annual product launch event will be hosted by newly installed chief executive John Ternus, with the headline product being Apple’s first foldable iPhone, priced around USD 2,000 and aimed at the premium segment. The event marks Ternus’s first major product unveiling since becoming CEO and Apple’s first move into foldable smartphones since the original iPhone debut in 2007. The launch is widely viewed as a full reshaping of the global premium smartphone market and a strategic push to defend Apple’s leadership at the very top of the market.

A top safety researcher at Anthropic publicly stated that he personally believes there is more than a ten percent chance artificial intelligence could kill all humans within the next decade, and acknowledged the company has no clear path to solving the alignment problem for superintelligence. The warning comes as Anthropic reportedly withheld its latest model from the UK AI Safety Institute, intensifying global concerns about the risks posed by frontier AI development.

OpenAI announced on September 8 that its research team made significant progress on the Navier-Stokes equations within just 88 hours, a key Millennium Prize Problem. The news sparked intense debate across the global mathematics and AI research communities and was seen as a landmark moment for generative AI in fundamental science.