AI Safety Debate Intensifies: Tech Leaders Divided, Regulatory Scrutiny Rises

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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told CNBC’s Jim Cramer she’s not worried about slowing the pace of frontier artificial intelligence development.

“Even if we stop today, the amount of intelligence that’s available in the world is massive,” Friar said.

OpenAI will decide on investments based on a “strong ROI,” even if the technology’s development has to be paced, she added.

Friar’s comments come as the debate about the safety of AI has exploded over the last week, sparked by a former An

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Tuesday slammed proposals of artificial intelligence companies antitrust exemptions that could coordinate a slowdown of developing increasingly powerful models.

Huang’s comments — in an interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer — come during an intense debate over AI safety fueled by an essay Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published Saturday. Amodei proposed that leading AI labs coordinate to “pace the frontier,” or deliberately slow the development of advanced mo

By Jasper Ward

Sept 15 (Reuters) - New York Governor Kathy Hochul is recommending that local governments seek community investments of at least $1 million per megawatt from developers proposing new data centers, according to a document released on Tuesday.

Her recommendations come months after New York became the first U.S. state to impose a moratorium on large new data centers.

The suggested investments of at least $1 million for every megawatt of utility demand would help communities where

By Danielle Kaye

NEW YORK, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Not every winner in the AI race makes chips. Some sell cowboy boots.

Boot Barn, a U.S. retailer best known for western wear, said on Tuesday that a growing share of its bulk workwear orders were now tied to data-center construction.

The brand has long sold boots in bulk to oil and gas and construction firms looking to outfit their entire teams. Now, "more and more often, those are data centers," CEO John Hazen said at the Goldman Sachs Global Con