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Marcus argues the scheduled call, with AI on the agenda, is a one-shot opening for a US-China cooperation agreement framed around "AI for good" rather than export terms (Marcus on AI). He notes the political weather shifting: AI stocks falling, public opinion turning, Steve Bannon among the Trump allies calling for human-controlled AI. He says he published the full strategy in The Economist.
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The commitment with teeth is one sentence in step 1: embedded third-party evaluators with "employee-like access" to Anthropic's training pipelines. Not model access. Not a pre-release window. Desks in Anthropic's offices, access badges, company laptops, permissions mostly comp...
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