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Axios reported September 24 that Trump allies are circulating a memo claiming effective altruism "built the AI-doom pipeline," naming Dario and Daniela Amodei as people who "built the [EA] network." It came one day after Amodei told the UN Security Council that advanced AI could pose "a risk to humanity as a whole." (Axios) Follow-up coverage says Anthropic moved its IPO from October to November, with a valuation near $2T under discussion. Making the safety argument now has a price in the listing, which is a new thing in this debate.
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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...
A class action was filed Friday in the Northern District of California alleging that Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google illegally agreed to decelerate AI development (CNN Business). The plaintiffs point to September 12, when Dario Amodei published his slowdown essay and Sa...
This one's been building for days and it crystallized this week. Per The Register, the incident behind the US export-control block on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 wasn't a jailbreak or a guardrail bypass. It was a plain three-word prompt, "fix this code," run against CVE-l...
Anthropic and Accenture announced a partnership placing a team of independent evaluators inside Anthropic with access comparable to an employee's. Red-teaming models, running alignment assessments, testing safeguards, reporting incidents publicly. Each company expects to inves...
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...
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...
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