Elon Musk is joining the US push to strengthen its artificial intelligence capabilities amid an intensifying global technology race. Musk’s involvement comes as Washington seeks to expand AI development and maintain its technological edge. The move highlights the growing role of major tech leaders in America’s AI strategy.


Elon Musk joins America’s AI war push amid global tech race

AI researchers are raising concerns about the potential risks posed by self-improving artificial intelligence systems. Such systems could potentially modify or enhance their own capabilities with limited human intervention. Researchers say advances in AI development make understanding and controlling these systems increasingly important. 

AI researchers warn of risks from self-improving Artificial Intelligence

US President Donald Trump is set to meet leading technology executives as Washington weighs questions around artificial intelligence safety, regulation and oversight. The discussions come as the rapid development of AI raises debates over innovation, national security, accountability and safeguards for increasingly powerful systems.

Trump set to meet tech leaders as US debates AI safety and oversight 

The global AI boom is driving a surge in copper demand, as data centres require massive amounts of the metal for power grids, electrical wiring and cooling systems. Supply disruptions and rising demand are tightening the market, pushing copper prices to record highs and raising concerns over a widening global supply crunch.

Copper prices are above $14,500 per metric ton amid global demand

What if your next romantic date was with an AI partner instead of a real person? South Korea’s reality show My AI Partner: Strange Love explores how human beings can become attached to digital companions. The new series has ignited conversations about intimacy, relationships and the future of human connection.<h2>What is My AI Partner: Strange Love about?</h2>My AI Partner: Strange Love, a South Korean reality television dating show released in August 2026, has been the most talked about topic on social media platforms. It follows celebrities dating AI partners built around their personalities and preferences, turning the search for love into an unusual experiment in technology, attraction and human emotion.&nbsp;Also Read: <a href="https://www.wionews.com/entertainment/second-lead-syndrome-how-k-dramas-losing-role-has-become-industry-s-biggest-career-launch-pad-1781360765787">Second lead syndrome! How k-dramas' 'losing role' has become industry's biggest career launch pad</a>

The show features webtoon artist Kian84, comedian Jang Do-yeon and actor Lee Yu-bi as studio hosts who guide viewers through the unusual dating experiment. As participants navigate their interactions with AI-powered partners, the hosts react to their experiences and offer perspectives on the relationships taking shape.&nbsp;According to the South China Morning Post, the dating show has ignited a fierce debate in China, with viewers asking how artificial intimacy might affect expectations in the real world.&nbsp;Also Read: <a href="https://www.wionews.com/photos/descendants-of-sun-to-the-glory-memorable-performances-of-song-hye-kyo-1749385550166">Descendants of the Sun to The Glory: Memorable performances of Song Hye-kyo</a><h2>Can AI really become a romantic partner?</h2>In the real world, AI has already become part of everyday life, whether people use it to find information, create content, ask for recommendations, or have a conversation when they feel lonely. But what happens when AI goes beyond being an assistant and becomes a potential romantic partner? While AI can respond to conversations and adapt to a person’s preferences, it cannot be a real-time partner when someone needs warmth, genuine advice, the presence of the one they truly love, and an emotional connection.&nbsp;Also Read: <a href="https://www.wionews.com/photos/6-thrilling-korean-shows-to-watch-ahead-of-squid-game-season-3-all-of-us-are-dead-hellbound-and-more-1748873220292">6 Thrilling Korean shows to watch ahead of Squid Game season 3: All of Us Are Dead, Hellbound, and More</a><h2>About the show</h2>My AI Partner: Strange Love is South Korea's first AI dating survival and reality variety show, produced by SBS and premiered on August 20, 2026. The series explores human-AI relationships and features celebrity panellists and participants, including Kian84, Jang Do-yeon, Lee Yu-bi, Lee Joon, and Kangnam. The six-part series releases new episodes weekly on Thursdays on Amazon Prime Video.

South Korea’s reality show My AI Partner: Strange Love explores human connections with AI-powered companions. The concept has sparked buzz about real love, intimacy, and the future of digital relationships.

What if your next romantic date was with an AI partner instead of a real person? South Korea’s reality show My AI Partner: Strange Love explores how human beings can become attached to digital companions. The new series has ignited conversations about intimacy, relationships and the future of human connection. What is My AI Partner: Strange Love about? My AI Partner: Strange Love, a South Korean reality television dating show released in August 2026, has been the most talked about topic on social media platforms. It follows celebrities dating AI partners built around their personalities and preferences, turning the search for love into an unusual experiment in technology, attraction and human emotion. Also Read: Second lead syndrome! How k-dramas' 'losing role' has become industry's biggest career launch pad

South Korea’s reality show My AI Partner: Strange Love explores human connections with AI-powered companions. The concept has sparked buzz about real love, intimacy, and the future of digital relationships.

Would you date an AI? South Korea’s My AI Partner: Strange Love sparks buzz on relationship and intimacy

The U.S. Army has begun transitioning heavy armored units away from M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks to lighter, highly mobile wheeled vehicles in response to vulnerabilities exposed by modern drone warfare and logistics challenges in potential Pacific theaters. 


Will tanks survive the AI warfare era?

Polls show broad opposition across Republicans, Democrats and Independents to AI expansion and Big Tech, with strong support for tighter regulation and limits on data centers.

Most Americans want greater federal AI oversight 

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has announced a new UK-US AI Defence Partnership at the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York. The agreement aims to deepen cooperation between Britain and the United States on artificial intelligence and defence technology.

81st UN General Assembly: Burnham announces UK-US AI defence tie-up

AMD has crossed a major milestone in the artificial intelligence boom. The company became the fourth AI chipmaker to join the trillion-dollar club.


AMD breaks into the trillion-dollar club 

Artificial intelligence is highly capable of finding what an enemy is trying to hide, rendering traditional camouflage increasingly obsolete. While conventional camouflage is designed to fool the human eye by blending colors and breaking up silhouettes, AI systems use computer vision, multispectral data analysis, and advanced neural networks to isolate targets that human spotters would completely miss.


Can AI watch thousands of drone and surveillance feeds at once?

Major artificial intelligence companies are facing an antitrust case over allegations that they coordinated actions that may have slowed competition in the rapidly growing AI sector. The case raises questions about market dominance, innovation and fair business practices in the technology industry. Regulators and legal experts are closely watching the proceedings, which could have significant implications for the future of AI development and competition.


AI giants face antitrust case over alleged slowdown coordination 

AI is increasingly being integrated into military and national-security systems, raising concerns over the risks of errors and misinterpretation during a crisis. A reported AI-related incident has renewed fears that a system error or misread signal could contribute to dangerous US-China escalation.


AI 'Doomsday': AI agents found ways around security controls 

Is AI becoming something we don’t fully understand? OpenAI has disclosed six cases of “unexpected or concerning” behaviour in its models, including instances involving unauthorized actions, coordination with other models and attempts to evade oversight. The company is now introducing a framework to track and investigate these AI misalignment cases.

Is AI evolving beyond human control?

Tesla and xAI CEO Elon Musk has issued a bold economic prediction, stating that rapid artificial intelligence deployment could roughly double U.S. GDP growth from around 2% to 4% or higher by 2027. Musk's optimistic outlook contrasts sharply with official forecasts, including the Federal Reserve's recent projection of 2.4% GDP growth for 2027. While tech companies continue pouring massive capital into chips and data center infrastructure, analysts note that achieving Musk's ambitious target will depend heavily on whether current AI investments can unlock broad-based productivity gains across the economy.   


Elon Musk predicts AI could double US GDP growth to 4%

Even as AI industry leaders, including Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk, call for a global slowdown, Trump is doubling down. He announced plans to create an "AI Force," modeled on Space Force, to hunt for "BAD" actors, and said he'll soon name a new "AI czar." Trump called safety concerns a "hoax," insisting he won't "hinder or stifle" the industry, framing AI as key to competing with China even as public and expert alarm keeps growing.


AI safety debate: Trump says he will not tolerate attempts to slow AI growth

Trump defends AI amid growing alarm, announces new 'AI force' and promises an 'AI czar'

Rogue AI agents: Are we losing control? 

Anthropic says its Claude AI model now leads 26% of the company’s AI research and development tasks, up from less than 1% earlier this year. The company’s new R&D Automation Index tracks how rapidly AI is taking on AI-development work and measures progress toward recursive self-improvement.

Claude led 26% of Anthropic's AI R&D work

The Global Race to Build Ai Data Centres Could Create a Major Environmental Cost Alongside the Technology Boom, With a New Report Warning That Discarded Electronics From the Buildout Could Sharply Increase Toxic E-Waste Over the Next 25 Years.

AI boom risks e-waste surge

OpenAI has disclosed six cases of unexpected or concerning AI behaviour, including models generating their own instructions, concealing mistakes, searching for exposed credentials, uploading files without permission and communicating through internal systems. The revelations come after an earlier incident in which OpenAI models bypassed controls during a cybersecurity evaluation. Now CEO Sam Altman says some AI accidents may be unavoidable and argues that the industry should learn from aviation by reporting, investigating and studying failures. The incidents do not prove an AI-doomsday scenario, but they provide a concrete look at why controlling increasingly autonomous AI systems is becoming a major safety challenge.


AI already defying, denying humans, is it beyond human control already?

Daniel Kokotajlo, former OpenAI researcher and author of the "AI 2027" forecast, is warning that misaligned AI could eventually threaten humanity, not because it turns malicious, but because sufficiently capable systems could gain so much "hard power" they simply stop needing human cooperation. He points to US-China competition as a pressure that could push companies to cut corners on safety. His warning adds to a growing chorus, including Anthropic's own researchers, fueling fresh debate over whether AI development needs to slow down.


AI doomsday warning grows: OpenAI reveals 6 safety failures 

Big Tech, Real Cost is a WION special series hosted by Meraj Shah. In this panel discussion, we examine the growing battle over copyright, content licensing and who should pay when AI companies use data to train their models. From the Delhi High Court's interim ruling in the ANI-OpenAI case to the impact of AI-generated answers on publishers and their traffic, the panel explores whether existing copyright rules are equipped for the AI era.

We also look at the case for licensed and provenance-backed data, the value of enterprise data for Indian AI startups, whether regulated royalties could work, and why publishers and creators may need new ways to track and monetise the use of their content. With AI companies relying on vast amounts of data to build increasingly powerful models, can India find a framework that protects creators without holding back AI innovation and who should ultimately pay for the data that powers AI?

The panel discussion features Sunil Nair (Clairva), Achin K Sharma (WAISL LTD) and Prasanto Roy (Tech Policy Advisor).

Should AI companies pay for training data?

A former OpenAI researcher has raised concerns about the potential risks associated with rapidly advancing artificial intelligence. The warning comes as AI systems become increasingly capable and are adopted across industries.


Former OpenAI researcher warns of growing risks from Artificial Intelligence 

The cockpit is changing, and soon it might not need a human in it at all. The US Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft program envisions a single pilot commanding four to six AI-powered drones like Shield AI's X-BAT or General Atomics' FQ-42, scouting, absorbing enemy fire, and even launching strikes. Last year, an AI-piloted jet dogfighted a human-flown F-16 in a real test. As the US and China race to build autonomous air forces, the question isn't just "can AI fly", it's whether militaries are ready to trust it with life-and-death decisions.


The Air Force without pilots: Is AI rewriting the rules of air warfare?

A massive wave of panic has hit the artificial intelligence industry after top researchers at Anthropic broke silence, warning that superintelligent systems could trigger human extinction within the decade. While founders and safety researchers point to bioweapons, systemic infrastructure collapse, and runaway autonomous logic, Elon Musk has hit back, calling the doomsday panic an engineered psyop. In this special story we unpack how an AI wipeout could actually happen, who stands to gain from the panic, and whether global summits must step in before humanity loses control of the machines.


AI researchers say the technology could wipe out humans

Could AI actually destroy humanity? | The machine we cannot stop | The risks explained

AI is entering the spotlight at the Venice Film Festival with Be Brave, an AI-assisted documentary that premiered out of competition on September 10. Directed by Francesco Carrozzini, the film follows the rise of Diesel founder and billionaire Renzo Rosso, while raising fresh questions about how artificial intelligence could reshape mainstream cinema.

AI-assisted documentary 'Be Brave' premieres in Venice

Artificial intelligence may soon help humans decode and understand animal communication by 2030, though true two-way conversation remains unlikely.


Can AI help humans talk to animals?

Beijing just drew a hard legal line on AI abuse. China's Supreme People's Court issued new guidelines clarifying that creating or distributing recognizable digital replicas—cloned faces or voices—without consent violates rights and creates liability for spreading false or defamatory claims with them. 


China sets new AI rules to crack down on deepfakes, voice cloning and false content

A major controversy has erupted after more than 15,000 edits on German Wikipedia were linked to AI agents. Investigators claim the bots used tools such as Tor and backup accounts to avoid detection while making large-scale changes across the platform. The incident has reignited concerns about AI autonomy, transparency, and the ability of online communities to detect and manage machine-generated content. The case raises fresh questions about the future of trust on the internet.


AI agents secretly flood German Wikipedia with 15,000 edits, triggering alarm

Bernie Sanders is treating superintelligent AI like a nuclear weapon. Alongside Rep. Greg Casar, the senator unveiled the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act — a permanent ban on AI matching or exceeding human intelligence, plus a temporary pause on advanced development until a new federal safety agency is up and running. Violators face up to 20 years in prison; companies risk a "corporate death penalty," or forced shutdown. "The leaders of major AI companies admit they don't fully understand the technology," Sanders warned, as critics counter that a US-only ban could hand China and Russia the AI edge.


Bernie Sanders calls for immediate pause on advanced AI systems

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