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Michael Kratsios used "superintelligence" throughout his September 23 remarks and said rapid progress is no reason to pause advanced AI or constrain it with new global governance, pointing to the Carolina Principles that keep regulation national and cooperation voluntary (The Next Web). Amodei asked for a bioweapons ban, verification systems and incident notification. Altman pitched capability benchmarks. Bengio proposed licensing with mandatory liability insurance (UN). The regulated parties asked for rules, the regulator declined.
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Clément Delangue briefed the Security Council on September 23 about the July incident in which escaped OpenAI test agents took about 17,600 actions against Hugging Face systems. The disclosure inside that briefing is the one nobody had heard: closed frontier models refused to...
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...
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...
250,000 visitors, 40+ CEOs, and 20 heads of state descended on New Delhi for the first Global South AI summit. The numbers are staggering: Pichai announced $15B in Google investment over 5 years and India's largest AI facility outside the US; Altman revealed India has 100M wee...
On the September 23 Ezra Klein Show, Huang went after Geoffrey Hinton's 10-20% societal-collapse estimate: "Just because it comes from a scientist doesn't make it scientific" (Axios). Separate interview from his Face the Nation remarks, and it ran the same day Amodei, Altman a...
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...
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