Sacks to Amodei and Altman: Slow Down, But No Cartel

The White House AI czar told Amodei and Altman to slow down on their own, with no antitrust waiver, approval regime or METR policing rivals, and said demanding them would look like blackmail or an election-season psyop; Hassabis had just called the plan's direction correct.

The RaceCompanies, models and money

NEWXi Sells BRICS on Open AI as Beijing Weighs Curbs

Xi offered BRICS a China-led open-source AI community and model cooperation, yet the bloc's declaration ignored it and Beijing spent the summer debating whether to cut foreign access to Qwen, Doubao and GLM, an openness with a ceiling nobody has written down.

Altman Shelves OpenAI's IPO: 'Ill-Advised Moment'

One Data Center, a Third of All Cat Bonds

NEWAltman Pitches Grid Security to Utility Chiefs

The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety

NEWAstra Refused the Cartel. Claude Joined It.

Anthropic: Five Got Past the Bioweapon Block

NEW974 Patches as AI Digs Up Forgotten Code

The WorkbenchTools and agents

Google's New Phone Agent, Minitap's Old Code

OpenAI: Your Codex Skills Now Slow Astra

The FightLaw, policy and power

NEWObama Tells Democrats to Make AI Their Fight

Obama told a private fundraiser that AI 'moving very fast in private hands' could be dangerous and urged Jeffries to build a public framework if Democrats win the House, making safety a 2028 platform plank; the quotes come from a partial transcript.

Senate Weighs a Federal Veto on Model Releases

NEWApple Drops Its Never-Train-on-You Promise

The FalloutJobs, money, daily life

Trump Blames China for the Data-Center Revolt

Asked why Americans don't want data centers nearby, Trump told Fox 'a lot of people say it's China' - but the evidence so far is 200 posting accounts on X and an OpenAI-banned operation that never broke out beyond itself.

NEWThe Class Banned From AI Finished Last

NEWBLM Got Three Days to Find Data-Center Land

ChatterOpinion, drama and noise

Grindr Benches Claude Over the Doom Talk

ChatGPT Says the Fake 9/11 Photo Is Real