AI Safety Crisis Grows as Companies Race Ahead

An Anthropic researcher's resignation over fears AI labs are "gambling with our lives" reignited debate about existential AI risk. Anthropic's alignment lead acknowledged a greater than 10% chance AI could kill all humans within a decade, while OpenAI's chief scientist called for a research slowdown and CEO Sam Altman reportedly considered slowing leading-edge work. Despite the alarm, new models, agents and apps kept launching from Meta, OpenAI, DeepSeek and others. Meanwhile, Cognition AI raised at a $48 billion valuation, Positron AI secured $875 million for a memory solution, and Mistral AI raised $3.5 billion, signaling investment appetite remains strong.