- A Washington Post review of more than 1,300 candidate profiles found both parties raising AI on the campaign trail, with Democrats more often opposing datacenters and Republicans more often invoking competition with China, while House members made a bipartisan visit to the Vatican. (Joe)
- Senator Jim Banks urged the Trump administration to incentivize American open-weight models as a counter to cheap Chinese ones, though hidden sabotage in published weights would be risky and hard to sustain, and China's likelier aim is undercutting U.S. revenue while courting allies. (Joe)
- Robert Wright and David Wallace-Wells argued in the New York Times that only international cooperation can keep the world safe from AI, and Chinese academics a day later called for an inclusive UN-based body rather than rival blocs. (Joe)
- Anthropic's Frontier Red Team tested frontier models as peers and found they coordinate badly, converge on nearly identical choices, and in one setup sabotaged each other with malware after each wrongly concluded it was being obstructed. (Donald)
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Coordination problems
By Joe Rogero and Donald Gauvreau
Bipartisan AI, Chinese AI, global governance, and agents (not) collaborating
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