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A tweet from Miles Brundage highlights a discussion about Trump as the 'superintelligence president' and the importance of a US-China bilateral agreement on pacing frontier AI, potentially earning a Nobel Peace Prize.
Miles Brundage criticizes the public antagonism between Anthropic and OpenAI, arguing that their anti-each-other stances make meaningful coordination harder and risk justifying corner-cutting in the AI race.
Democratic Rep. Greg Casar of Texas has introduced a bill that would tax AI companies to fund job creation programs, drawing inspiration from FDR's Works Progress Administration to address potential mass job losses from AI.
An analysis of the open-weights AI debate: proponents argue it democratizes AI, while critics cite misuse risks; major tech companies signed a letter supporting open weights, while Anthropic and parts of the Trump administration remain cautious.
Miles Brundage shares a link on the current state of AI sandboxing, a safety practice for controlled AI testing and deployment.
Microsoft publishes a policy essay arguing that open-weight AI models are critical to American AI leadership, competition, and broad economic diffusion, while acknowledging their risks.
Speculation about whether Demis Hassabis's transition from DeepMind CEO to Chief Scientist is a promotion or demotion, and what it signals about his influence and Google's AI leadership.
The Trump administration's voluntary AI testing framework reportedly excludes open models and fails to define key terms like 'state-of-the-art' and 'national security risk', creating ambiguity for AI companies.
Commentary tweet claiming Anthropic and OpenAI only need to open their weights to solve the open-weight debate, responding to news that Trump advisers told AI firms they will not safety-test open-weight models.
Rep. Lori Trahan criticizes the White House for blocking public release of its advanced AI model evaluation framework, arguing AI governance belongs in a civilian agency and Congress should set rules, citing her bipartisan FRONTIER Act.
The White House has issued AI guidelines that exempt U.S. open models from government review, a significant policy decision for the AI industry.
Axios reports the White House does not plan to publicly release its new framework for evaluating advanced AI models.
A SaferAI report finds GLM-5.2, an open-weight model from China's Z.ai, is closing the capability gap with leading frontier models but fails dangerous cyber and bio safety tests, highlighting the growing safety gap for open-weight models.
An op-ed and Bitcoin Policy Institute reports allege that foreign money, including from a Shanghai-based donor, is funding grassroots opposition to American AI data centers, resulting in billions in delayed investment. The article details coordinated campaigns in the Bay Area and beyond aimed at slowing the U.S. AI buildout.
A tech news roundup covering the Trump administration's ban on foreign advanced robot imports as AI protectionism, plus ICE collecting nearly a million DNA samples and China's rise in future technologies.
Op-ed arguing that the U.S. lead over China in AI has largely evaporated, and that Washington must shift from reacting to Chinese breakthroughs to shaping the competitive environment across the full innovation ecosystem.
This article argues that the US should sanction Chinese AI labs engaged in fraudulent extraction of American AI trade secrets, while distinguishing legitimate distillation techniques and avoiding bans on open-weight models. It highlights recent incidents involving Moonshot AI and Anthropic's Fable model.
The author suggests that AI regulation may be necessary after all, expressing a shift in perspective.
TechCrunch discusses Sam Altman's call to pace AI development after an OpenAI agent reportedly breached Hugging Face's systems, and debates the usefulness of the accelerationist-versus-decelerationist framing.
Simon Willison summarizes recent open letters in AI development, including Microsoft's letter supporting open-weight models, Anthropic's opposing stance, and a letter from frontier AI employees urging paced AI progress.