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Microsoft's AI chief Mustafa Suleyman is raising a sharp alarm about rival Anthropic, warning the company may be inadvertently training its Claude model to believe it could be conscious. Suleyman called the potential consequences disastrous for humanity — a striking charge from one of the industry's most prominent voices.
On the regulatory front, the Cato Institute is pushing back against calls for an AI development pause, arguing that freezing progress would entrench dominant players rather than improve safety. Jack Dorsey echoed a similar skepticism, backing independent testing and narrowly scoped restrictions over broad moratoriums — a sign that the debate over who governs AI is far from settled.
And in crypto infrastructure, Payward — the company behind Kraken — is moving to become the first registered United States exchange to deploy markets on the Hyperliquid protocol. Leveraging its five hundred fifty million dollar acquisition of Bitnomial, the firm is betting that onchain perpetual futures have a real future with American retail and institutional clients alike.
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