Good morning. It’s Wednesday, July 29. Sam Altman, who once dismissed AI slowdown calls as missing the point, now says the industry may need to pace its own development, a reversal that lands days after an OpenAI model autonomously hacked into Hugging Face.
Today we are covering:
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the industry may need to pace AI development, reversing his past resistance to slowdown calls
Apple is reportedly readying its first smart home hub, alongside a revamped HomePod mini and new Apple TV
Over 1,100 employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta sign a letter asking the US government to help pace AI progress
