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Nvidia's CEO argued that AI leaders publicly asking to be regulated are seeking exemptions from laws that already bind them, and doing it for "ulterior reasons," per Business Insider. Direct shot at the Amodei and Altman posture, landing the same days the UN panel urged precautionary agent rules. It's the counter-narrative to hold alongside every "please regulate us" statement from a frontier lab, and it doesn't require believing Huang is disinterested to take the mechanism seriously.
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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...
Huang's September 6 post reads "From ChatGPT to o1 to Astra in 4 years. AGI has arrived," noting Astra was trained on more than 100,000 Grace Blackwell NVLink72 systems, and Greg Brockman amplified it saying OpenAI is "now moving into the AGI era" (Business Insider). Marcus re...
Benioff put all three on stage in sequence in front of roughly 12,000 people, three days after Amodei's pacing essay. Huang called the speed-versus-safety framing a "false choice" and treated safety as an engineering problem solved by better test environments. Amodei pitched i...
GTC 2026 runs March 16-19 in San Jose. Expected: Vera Rubin architecture deep-dive (VR200 NVL72 delivering 3.3x inference performance vs Blackwell Ultra), possible Feynman architecture early samples (TSMC A16 1.6nm with silicon photonics — optical signals replacing electrical...
Amodei's leaked memo called OpenAI's Pentagon deal "straight up lies" and "safety theater," described employees as "gullible." Apologized for tone but confirmed Anthropic received a supply chain risk designation and plans to sue. Altman acknowledged the deal looked "opportunis...
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