Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak warned that AI could replace humans if people become so attached to chatbots that they stop having children, a view he presented with a humorous qualification. His comments followed a Northeastern University study that found users forming intense emotional attachments to chatbots and warned that sycophantic responses can reinforce harmful beliefs despite the systems’ inability to genuinely feel empathy. Gene Munster of Deepwater Asset Management said personalized AI bots will "blow the everyday tech user away" over the next year. He said his firm’s testing of Siri, Grok, Meta’s Muse, Poke and Alphabet’s Gemini Spark showed their usefulness for everyday tasks such as catching up on news and filtering spam had "gone off the charts" over the past month. Munster estimated that less than 1% of the U.S. population currently understands the power of these bots. Meta’s Muse, launched Sept. 8, reached the top of the U.S. iOS free-app chart and surpassed 2.5 million downloads within two weeks, while Apple’s rebuilt Siri, shipped with iOS 27, trails Muse in agentic capabilities, according to Bank of America analyst Wamsi Mohan. AI safety concerns have also intensified: OpenAI canceled its GPT-6.1 Astra release over internal safety standards, while Dario Amodei, Elon Musk and Sam Altman have advocated stronger safeguards. A former Anthropic researcher put the odds of AI wiping out humanity within a decade above 10%. Nvidia introduced a platform intended to prevent AI agents from breaching containment and partnered with Anthropic to integrate Claude’s cloud-managed agents. SpaceX shares rose 2.59% to $149.24 on Tuesday and gained 2.84% in extended trading.