China’s state-backed Global Times (Sept 14) called Dario Amodei’s “pace the frontier” essay a “Cold War playbook” aimed at curbing China’s AI via chip controls and distillation crackdowns. It argued shutting China out of AI governance would raise global loss-of-control risks.
SoftBank Group shares fell more than 13% on Sept 14, their steepest drop in nearly three months, after Amodei’s pacing call and Altman’s confirmation that OpenAI won’t IPO in 2026. SoftBank is among OpenAI’s biggest backers, with its ChatGPT stake expected to reach $65B by October…
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…
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 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…
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