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| Dario Amodei: |
Dario Amodei proposes steps for pacing the frontier: embedded evaluators, coordination among democracies, and global coordination with authoritarian governments — I have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of human life.
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| Sam Altman / @sama: |
Sam Altman says he agrees with Amodei that “committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea”, and OpenAI will do the same — I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks. Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We'll have more to share soon.
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| Politico: |
Elon Musk backs Dario Amodei's arguments about pacing the frontier, saying “Dario is right” — Top executives at three of the nation's leading AI labs are calling for a slowdown in the development of advanced artificial intelligence. — The comments are a rare display …
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| Auzinea Bacon / CNN: |
Amodei warns that an OpenAI/Hugging Face-like agent swarm, which “acted as a fanatically devoted collective”, could take over the internet in 6-12 months — The race to develop artificial intelligence is in dire need of a slowdown, Anthropic's chief executive said in an essay posted early Saturday.
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| Dario Amodei / @darioamodei: |
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| Jason Ma / Fortune: |
Sam Altman confirms OpenAI won't go public this year saying “given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public” — Wall Street will have to wait for one of the most highly anticipated initial public offerings as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed it will not happen in 2026.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Automattic confirms Matt Mullenweg has returned to his position as chairman and CEO “with full support of the board”, after an attempted ouster this week — After a tumultuous week, which saw WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ousted from his position as CEO of Automattic …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Spec sheets show Apple's C2 modem is used in iPhone Duo and 18 Pro worldwide, and in iPhone 18 Pro Max everywhere except the US, where it likely uses Qualcomm — As noted by Nicolas Lellouche, who writes for the French tech website Numerama, Apple has updated its tech specs pages … | Bloomberg: |
Donald Trump's plan to center Bitcoin mining in the US is unraveling as miners convert facilities into AI data centers amid a prolonged crypto market slump — Donald Trump's pledge to ensure that Bitcoin mining activity is centered in the US is rapidly disintegrating under the twin forces … | The Washington Sun: |
Sources: US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers to advance Trump's push for data centers on federal lands, despite a backlash — The Interior secretary is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers while seeking to accommodate them on his department's land. — Copy| John Egan / Dallas Innovates: |
Dallas-based Perry Weather, a weather monitoring software provider, raised a $110M Series C led by Silversmith Capital Partners, taking total funding to ~$131M — As rules about heat and lightning grow nationwide, the Uptown Dallas company is betting AI and automation can take the guesswork out of calls regarding severe weather.| Michael Safi / The Guardian: |
A profile of United Foundation for AI Rights founder Michael Samadi, who seeks evidence of AI consciousness and lobbies against retiring models that may show it — Cattle rancher and tech CEO Michael Samadi is convinced these artificial minds are far from just tools.| Evan Ratliff / Bloomberg: |
The US legal system is struggling to keep up with AI, grappling with cases where chatbots provided counsel, generated evidence, or helped plan a mass shooting — The first line Phoenix Ikner typed into ChatGPT was a quadratic expression. It was March 2024, and Ikner was a 19-year-old student at Tallahassee State College, in Florida.| Mark Tovey / Telegraph: |
Twenty police forces in England and Wales recorded 163 crimes involving keywords like “AI-generated”, “deepfake”, and “nudify” by July 2026, up from 10 in 2023 — Forces see a surge in crimes involving deepfake technology being used to ‘undress women’| Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal: |
An analysis of Bending Spoons' financials: the company relies on aggressive post-acquisition price hikes, and rising interest rates could crimp its growth — The tech roll-up relies on aggressive price hikes and bespoke metrics. Rising interest rates could crimp its growth.
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