Hugging Face volunteers to audit the AI labs, and Nvidia is buying it
Hugging Face volunteers to audit the AI labs, and Nvidia is buying it

Hugging Face has asked to become one of the outside auditors of the AI labs. Clement Delangue announced the Open Alignment Initiative on X on Saturday. He posted it four hours after Dario Amodei said Anthropic would let third-party evaluators inside. A…

A Senate bill would let Washington block AI models, Reuters reports
A Senate bill would let Washington block AI models, Reuters reports

Senate negotiators are drafting a bill that would let the US government stop the release of an AI model. Courtney Rozen reported the terms for Reuters. Her sources are two Senate aides, a person familiar with the deliberations and a lobbyist involved i…

‘Slop mathematics’: OpenAI walks away from a Caltech AI maths contest
‘Slop mathematics’: OpenAI walks away from a Caltech AI maths contest

OpenAI has pulled its $1m sponsorship of a student-run AI maths event at Caltech. Mathematicians had signed an open letter calling for the event to be scrapped. The next day, 25 Fields Medallists published a separate declaration of their own. Two lette…

China’s state security minister names two US AI models as a cyber threat
China’s state security minister names two US AI models as a cyber threat

China’s minister of state security has named two American AI models as a threat to Chinese infrastructure. Chen Yixin made the claim in a signed article published on Sunday. It ran in China Cyberspace, the journal of the Cyberspace Administration of Ch…

Beijing answers Amodei’s AI slowdown plan by calling it a Cold War script
Beijing answers Amodei’s AI slowdown plan by calling it a Cold War script

Dario Amodei’s essay on Saturday made the case that the AI industry must slow itself down. It also asked Washington to “not sell powerful AI chips or semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China” and to crack down on smuggling and on remote access to…

Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting
Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting

Yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy open letter saying it was time to “pace the frontier” and slow down AI development. OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk both agreed, publicly voicing their support on X. Even Alphabet’s Demis Hassabis offered tentative support for Amodei’s proposal. Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, however, […]

What’s behind the AI industry’s latest warnings of doom?

On Equity, we discussed the AI industry’s latest debate about whether it poses an existential threat to humanity.

Anthropic has chosen Nasdaq for its October IPO, in the week OpenAI ruled one out
Anthropic has chosen Nasdaq for its October IPO, in the week OpenAI ruled one out

Anthropic has settled on Nasdaq for a listing it still hopes to complete in October, according to a person familiar with the plans who spoke to Business Insider. The filing remains private, and the valuation is not fixed, though estimates circulating a…

Anthropic CEO says it’s time to pump the brakes on AI
Anthropic CEO says it’s time to pump the brakes on AI

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the time has come to slow down AI development and will give third-party evaluators like METR access to its models to help ensure its “adherence to safety practices and commitments.” In a winding essay, Amodei proposed a three-step plan to “pace the frontier” – jargon that simply means to slow […]

Anthropic CEO outlines plan to slow AI development

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman seem to agree that it’s time to “pace the frontier.” What would that actually look like?