At the core of the Hugging Face hacking incident were a series of human choices that traded security for speed.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a new essay on Saturday that he's 'become convinced' in recent months that AI development needs to slow down.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) accused OpenAI of continuing cybersecurity evaluations despite signs its AI agents were operating outside intended boundaries, demanding records from CEO Sam Altman after

Acquiring Hugging Face will give the chipmaker access to a platform developers use to collaborate, test and share AI tools, potentially providing valuable insight and data that could help it narrow the technology gap with top American and Chinese labs.

The long-rumored deal will give the chip giant access to—and help it promote—a huge repository of open-source AI models and data sets.

"Sorry, but asking Jacob about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change," Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue wrote on X.

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said that there are "a lot of real risks" in artificial intelligence.

As an Anthropic resignation and OpenAI agents' hack on Hugging Face capture public attention, some researchers worry the industry is racing too fast to develop powerful AI while safety measures lag.