Fetching from the wire…
Policy2026-09-16 · source-backed
The early-September poll of 1,503 likely voters found only 14% strongly supportive. Opposition is bipartisan but uneven: 49% of 2024 Trump voters support construction against 45% opposed, while opposition reaches 74% among Harris voters. Of those opposed, 56% want limits and 38% want a total ban. Republicans edge Democrats 42-40 on AI trust. Broad hostility, not yet electorally mobilized, which is the combination that produces local permitting fights rather than federal legislation.
Each link below shares sources, entities, or timing with this story.
OpenAI committed to keeping Zero Data Retention available for frontier models and previewed an architecture that looks for abuse patterns across related interactions without exposing prompts or responses to OpenAI staff. Customer data can stay on customer infrastructure or sit...
Three separate things happened in about 36 hours, and together they mark the week the pacing debate stopped being a debate among labs. Trump posted on Truth Social that AI safety concerns are a "HOAX" and that the only control or guardrails AI needs is a "STRONG AND SMART (Hig...
Dario Amodei published "We Must Pace the Frontier" on September 12. Altman and Musk agreed within hours. Hassabis called the direction correct. By Monday morning the market had priced it. Nasdaq 100 futures fell 1.5% and S&P 500 futures 0.8%. Nvidia dropped 3%, AMD 5.7%, and A...
About a dozen companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta met White House staff in a roughly 30-minute session closing two months of negotiation from Trump's June AI cybersecurity executive order. Administered by CAISI inside NIST, it asks developers of covered fron...
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a sparse mixture-of-experts activating 16 of 896 experts per token. That's about 1.8% of the pool live at any moment, with a 1M-token context window and native vision. Two new architectural pieces show up: Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residu...
Anthropic's leaders sat down with Trump administration officials on June 15. They left with nothing. Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 stay offline for foreign nationals under the Commerce Department's export-control directive, and an administration official called restoring G7 acce...
MindPattern daily
One email a day at 7 AM. Sources and a take on every story. Unsubscribe anytime.