Geoffrey Hinton told ABC News (Sept 14) there is a “significant risk” AI could escape human control, backing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call for labs to pace frontier development. He suggested mandatory pre-release testing; Trump again rejected any slowdown.
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have held working group meetings since July on an industry led AI safety standards body, The Information reported, predating Amodei’s public “pace the frontier” call. Talks center on shared pre release testing, independent evaluations, and risk assessments…
Devin’s Fusion harness (now in Desktop and CLI) pairs a frontier “lead” for planning and review with a cheaper “sidekick” for execution—Fable 5.1 + SWE 2 is the recommended combo—matching Claude Code or Codex level scores at up to 39% lower cost across coding benchmarks…
Anthropic has picked Nasdaq for its potential IPO, Business Insider reported Sept 13, citing a person familiar with the plans. That sits alongside earlier sourcing that IPO marketing may start mid October at earliest…
Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s “pace the frontier” essay on X, saying the direction is right for a “critical moment” while details still need work. He linked it to DeepMind’s push for an industry wide frontier AI standards body; Altman and Musk had already agreed…
Barack Obama told Democrats (TechCrunch, Sept 13) to make AI a central agenda and build a public safety framework, warning the tech is moving fast in private hands. He has spoken with Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman as labs debate pacing the frontier…
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