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Archive September 16, 2026 10:07 UTC
Signal: Europe offered to broker the slowdown Zuckerberg refused, as the lab asking for it leased Australia's biggest data centre.
Von der Leyen Offers Brussels as the Slowdown Broker
In her State of the Union the Commission president said she will invite frontier labs to discuss how Europe can 'support ongoing industry efforts to pace the frontier' - no date, no companies named, and a model-testing offer reportedly aimed at Britain and Canada, not the US or China.
The Next Web: she took the CEOs at their word, and Brussels already regulates their models WIRED: China reads the pacing pitch as a bad deal, not a safety plan
The RaceCompanies, models and money
NEWAnthropic's A$32bn Australian Bet Sits Beside Gas Plants
Queensland's premier says Anthropic will take the first stage of a Western Downs campus drawing as much power as 1.5 million homes, beside gas-fired power stations - not yet council-approved and still awaiting foreign-investment clearance.
The Guardian: Crisafulli sold Anthropic on a 'streamlined approval process'
OpenAI Shops a $1.2 Trillion Price
Meta Puts the AI Behind a Paywall Engadget: separate tiers for businesses, creators and 'AI power users'
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
GitHub's Agent Leaked Private Repos
NEWA $40M Model That Refuses to Talk
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Cloudflare Splits Search From Training
Gemini Reaches Into Salesforce and Jira
NEWCodex Loses GPT-5.5 on October 14
The FightLaw, policy and power
Zuckerberg Sides With Huang Against a Joint Slowdown
Meta's chief says each lab can pace itself - Meta held Muse back for months without asking rivals to - putting him with Nvidia's Huang against a coordinated pause, though staff testing Muse reportedly saw it expose private photos.
Vance on the labs: 'If you're building Frankenstein, stop' CNBC: Huang calls the antitrust waiver 'completely unnecessary'
NEWFamily Sues OpenAI Over FSU Gunman's ChatGPT Logs
Tiru Chabba's family says the accused gunman asked ChatGPT about Columbine, fame and when campus was busiest; OpenAI says it gave only facts found across the public web and flagged his account to police after the shooting - a test of whether answering is aiding.
OpenAI Backs the Bill That Would Audit It FTC chair says she is suspicious of the AI antitrust exemptions labs want
Universal Sues DistroKid Over 'AI Slop'
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
AWS: The Data in Bahrain Is Gone
Dallas Trash Trucks Now Grade Your House
House Votes to Make Data Centers Pay Verge: 61% of likely voters oppose building AI data centers, NYT and Siena find
NEWAI Attack Ads Put Rivals' Faces on Fakes
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Commerce Pulled the GPU Price Curve
NEWAI Made a Whole Sitcom. Nobody's Laughing
Ghost Note Anthropic Posts a Job on Acceptable Weapons
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