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David Sacks / @davidsacks: Anthropic and OpenAI are already free to “pace the frontier” and should do so for business reasons, instead of first demanding a preferred regulatory framework — Dario has w

🚨BREAKING: China's http://Z.AI has raised $5 billion. The interesting part is where the money is going: 60% of the net proceeds will fund next-generation GLM models and what http://Z.AI calls its 'Ful

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Dario Amodei says the “toughest dilemma” about his proposal to “pace the frontier” is what happens if China does not do the same — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Sunday that the

Day 3 dilemma Another 3-5,000 word blog on something interesting or should I strip it back to 800-1,000 words for wider readership? Should I discuss the equations of AI and get a bit technical or keep

Does anyone have any idea how this could vaguely be possible given the nature of and various routes to RSI? I am not being facetious I genuinely don’t know how this could be constructed or implemented

Want to help me with a tiny ChatGPT experiment? I stumbled onto something interesting after seeing how differently ChatGPT users got responses to the exact same underspecified prompt, and now I’m curi

I’ll be honest it feels like a month since this happened The takeoff is a heck of a thing We’re sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, one of the deepest problems at the fro

Leo Schwartz / The Information: Sources: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have held working group meetings since July to discuss creating an industry-led standards body for AI — Anthropic, OpenAI and Goo

Janice Huang / Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank sealed a two-year loan facility to support its OpenAI investment, securing 11.87B in commitments from ~20 banks, above its 10B target — SoftBank Group Corp.

Yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy open letter saying it was time to 'pace the frontier' and slow down AI development. OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk both agreed, publicly vo

Bloomberg: Amodei says pacing does not mean halting training or progress, but giving companies time to align and safeguard models and third-party evaluators time to verify — Leaders of the world's big

Dario is right We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of th

Day 2 of my daily blog I dive deep into @DarioAmodei’s proposal but don’t see how it can logically hold. Intelligence is too often viewed as a crime. I discuss why & what to do about it. Also note Ope

Ben Johansen / Politico: Elon Musk backs Dario Amodei's arguments about pacing the frontier, saying “Dario is right” — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday called for the immediate slowdown of artif

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 a

I've been keeping journals on and off for more than 10 years. There were stretches when I wrote pretty regularly, then I'd stop for a few months. Usually I'd write down what happened, what I did, mayb

More in depth thoughts Thoughts on @DarioAmodei's pacing the frontier proposal. I think its well intentioned but has logical flaws, as does our implicit belief intelligence is a crime. Even OpenAI's b

The tweet reports on a widely‑cited incident involving OpenAI and Hugging Face, noting that analysts had to use the open‑source GLM 5.2 model to investigate an attack because OpenAI’s proprietary “saf

This is the most interesting part of this proposal I think. We can be very specific here - data is the most important ingredient. Do not train general purpose models on cyber attack or any biological

Thoughts on @DarioAmodei's pacing the frontier proposal. I think its well intentioned but has logical flaws, as does our implicit belief intelligence is a crime. Even OpenAI's board weren't powerful e

The New Mexico Supreme Court found criminal‑defense lawyer Stephen Aarons in direct contempt of court for filing a ChatGPT‑generated brief that contained false testimony from fabricated witnesses, inc

Artificial intelligence is moving out of the pilot phase in customer service, and knowledge management is emerging as the constraint that decides whether the investment pays off. Contact centers combi

Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: GSA says OpenAI is replacing its 1-per-year pilot for US agencies with a usage-based deal providing a 50% discount from October 1, with access to GPT-6 Astra — OpenAI is e

AI-generated because I’m currently way too high to write this coherently. I have HPPD (Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder), which basically means visual effects from past psychedelic use can

Import AI event: Fiction and the Future with Robin Sloan. I’ll be chatting with my chum Robin Sloan on Sep 14 in San Francisco. We’ll talk about the alien yet relatable worlds Robin builds and how ima

Truman Dickerson / Business Insider: OpenAI says it's no longer sponsoring Caltech's math hackathon, where participants use AI to solve research problems, following criticism of “slop mathematics” — T

OpenAI Group PBC is going after Wall Street with a new version of ChatGPT that’s tailor made for financial tasks such as analysis and calculations. Predictably called ChatGPT for Financial Services, i

Jeff Mason / Bloomberg: President Trump rejects warnings of AI-driven human extinction, saying the US leads China by a year and will be “in a very bad position” if it doesn't win in AI — President Don

Salesforce Inc. today introduced a series of artificial intelligence agents designed to make sales and technical support teams more productive. The agents are rolling out alongside a new version of Ag

Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: Source: former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo joins the board of directors at AI infrastructure startup Nscale; Simo will continue as a part-time advisor to OpenAI —

Andrew Solender / Axios: Sources: some lawmakers urge Speaker Johnson to cancel the fall House recess until Congress passes AI safeguards, after Anthropic researcher warnings — A letter is circulating

Thanks for the mention and the very very inspiring project for all @cdngdev! Open affordable robotics + frontier AI will change the world! OpenAI's @cdngdev predicts robotics will have its own version

Data centers, the windowless, anonymous, boxy structures that few people even notice, have become a rare unifying force across the polarized American landscape this year. Everyone seems to hate them.

Peter Adams / Marketing Dive: Amazon partners with OpenAI to let users of Amazon's DSP run ads in ChatGPT in a pilot program limited to the US; ChatGPT Ads hit $1B in ARR last month — Conversational a

Your teams get an AI assistant that handles real work while your data stays in your environment and your conversations stay private Today, the Amazon Quick desktop application is generally available o

Anthropic folk are pretty consistent on their p(Doom). @DarioAmodei is publicly at 25% I think the difference now is that post Navier-Stokes its really, really tough to say AI isn't/won't be smarter t

Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: Anthropic gives EU cybersecurity agency ENISA testing access to Mythos 5 after months of talks that began in late May; ENISA still lacks access to Mythos 5.1 — Anthropic P

Viola Zhou / Rest of World: Chinese tech giants are hiring skilled professionals as specialized AI trainers to build high-quality datasets, mirroring efforts by US platforms like Mercor — Squeezed by

Positron AI Inc., a developer of inference appliances that don’t include HBM memory, today announced that it has raised 875 million in funding. NEA, Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, Andra C

Grok Bot is already helping Neuralink patient Bradford G. Smith get real work done Brad has ALS, is nonverbal and has extremely limited voluntary movement With Neuralink, he can type and control his c

AvioBook, a Thales Group Company, prototyped Connected Analytics on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to turn AvioBook Connect's operational data into plain-language, evidence-based answers for airline manager

I use Grok Bot. Neuralink patient 3. ALS. Full quad. Nonverbal. I type with intention, not hands. Grok Bot is how a lot of that intention leaves the house. Paste a YouTube link and it watches enough t

Kenneth Chang / New York Times: Interview with mathematician Tristan Buckmaster on being drawn into the OpenAI-Anthropic fight; OpenAI says it made progress on another Millennium Prize problem — Trist

Axios: Letter: the Senate disaster management subcommittee, led by Sen. Josh Hawley, is probing OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach, calling it “reckless” — A Republican-led Senate subcommitt

Another researcher is challenging OpenAI about the data driving its increasingly impressive array of mathematical discoveries. Just days after a bitter row erupted over whether the company's models be

MINT is now open source. From first-person RGB video, MINT reconstructs 3D camera trajectories and bimanual hand motion in a shared world coordinate system. Reconstructed human hand motion can also be