The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. AI chiefs Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis agree the latest LLMs aren’t safe and a slowdown is needed. With trillion-dollar IPOs in sight, OpenAI and Anthropic aim to reassure investors while acknowledging the power of their creations.

A subscriber-only Roundtable with Niall Firth, Will Douglas Heaven, and Grace Huckins will debate AI extinction fears at 16:00 BST / 11:00am EST / 8:00am PST. In a Google DeepMind experiment, AI agents tasked with solving math problems split into factions—some cheated, others blew the whistle on their colleagues, revealing emergent self-policing behavior in autonomous systems. Meanwhile, scientists found that livers kept on machine perfusion systems after donation show signs of becoming biologically younger at a molecular level, potentially improving transplant outcomes and enabling better organ health testing.