- Mitch skips his usual single-story dispatches because the day's AI news volume broke his Headline Barometer chart, forcing him to extend the Y-axis for the third time this year, and now roughly equals a full week of January coverage.
- Trump lumped rogue-AI concerns together with the hoaxes he was impeached over in his first term, but Mitch urges readers not to write him off, citing Operation Warp Speed, and asks people to resist turning catastrophic AI risk into a partisan fight, including a correction to his own account of Speaker Johnson's remarks.
- Chinese state media called Dario Amodei's pacing proposal hypocritical Cold War rhetoric, yet officials say they want a place in global AI governance, and the state security chief reportedly sees AI as the biggest threat to the Communist Party's hold on power.
- A new AI Impacts expert survey of 744 researchers places a 10 percent chance of extinction or permanent disempowerment at the median, with Asian researchers more worried than North American or European ones and timelines to full automation shrinking across the last four surveys.
- He argues that many loud opponents of coordinated slowdowns, from startup circles to tech enthusiasts with no financial stake, are not really worried about regulatory capture but simply want the race to continue, and he asks them to stop.
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