Regulation, safety, and governance
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Dario Amodei's pacing essay promised outside evaluators employee-level access inside Anthropic. Today brought the harder question: what happens when one of them finds something the lab disagrees with? Access without authority CNBC reported this morning that the embedded-evaluator plan gives outsiders extraordinary visibility and almost no
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Two stories today: OpenAI's chief executive answering the fear question on stage at Dreamforce, and a three-month-old Chinese lab raising close to $56 million to build models that improve themselves. Sam Altman told Salesforce's Dreamforce conference that people are right to fear AI — and
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Europe's State of the Union named AI and climate as the two forces that will decide the continent's next decade — and Brussels offered the frontier labs a seat at the table on how fast to move. Ursula von der Leyen called AI "the second tipping
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AI red teaming is the practice of attacking an AI system on purpose — trying to make it lie, leak data, take dangerous actions, or ignore its own rules — so that the weaknesses get found by the people who can fix them instead of by strangers. The name comes from the
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The pacing fight that has owned the last two weeks got its fullest industry-side answer — from the company that has spent months proving it can wait. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published the industry's most detailed rebuttal to a coordinated AI slowdown, arguing that market pressure, not a
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Washington moved on the AI industry's cap table, its power bill and its chain of command in a single day — three levers, one direction. President Trump said he expects to meet the leaders of major US AI companies at the White House, likely next week, to discuss the
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Two answers landed in the same week: what agents actually do when you leave them running for weeks, and what one lab thinks the industry should do about it. Emergence AI published the second version of Emergence World on Tuesday — five simulated towns, ten autonomous agents each, more than 120
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Two AI-policy answers landed in the same Washington hearing: what the frontier labs cannot have, and what the Treasury Secretary wants built instead. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday that the government should not give AI companies a liability exemption, and that the
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Two stories today about infrastructure that everyone assumed was recoverable: a cloud region that isn't coming back, and a bug bounty pipeline a criminal turned into a payday. Amazon Web Services told customers it cannot restore its Bahrain region or one of its three availability zones in the
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Two stories today about where AI's bottlenecks actually are: who is allowed to put a price on compute, and whether an agent that works today will work tomorrow. The US Commerce Department ordered Kalshi to take down its AI-compute forward curve last month, citing national security concerns,
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Two stories today run the same test on AI's gatekeepers: who gets to check the work before it ships, and what the answer looks like when the checker isn't the government. Then a biology dataset turned into a toy shows what happens when the public gets
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Washington got two answers on AI policy within a day: the administration's competition chief pushed back on the industry's safety-for-antitrust trade, and OpenAI told Congress it will take a mandate it once argued against. FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said "everyone should be deeply