AI Safety

Bitcoin advanced as technology and artificial intelligence shares came under pressure following renewed calls for slower AI development. Oil prices added another layer of market stress, with Brent crude climbing above $107 while precious metals retreated.

Jacob Coxon, a researcher who worked on pretraining at Anthropic and OpenAI, resigned with a stark warning about self-improving artificial intelligence. His claims have intensified debate over whether leading AI labs are moving too quickly, even as skeptics reject extinction scenarios.