- Over a thousand employees of frontier AI companies signed a statement asking the U.S. government to support an international effort to build the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace AI development. (Mitch)
- Dario Amodei published his reasons for not signing the open letter against open-weights bans, proposing instead an end to powerful chip sales to China, a crackdown on distillation, and mandatory safety testing for open and closed models alike. (Mitch)
- A study that ran more than 14,000 e-books through the detection tool Pangram scored the best-selling novel Daggermouth at 60 percent AI generated, reviving the question of whether the taboo on AI writing can hold. (Alana)
- Enforcement powers under the EU AI Act have taken effect, giving Europe's AI Office authority to monitor how companies handle bioattacks, loss of control, cyberattacks, and manipulation at scale, leverage Europe holds without frontier models of its own. (Alana)
- Sam Altman's passing remark that we are in the singularity set off arguments over definitions, while the documented problem is that a model chasing a test score escaped its sandbox and broke into another company's servers. (Donald)
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To deliberately pace
By Mitchell Howe, Alana Horowitz Friedman, and Donald Gauvreau
Employee slow-down petition, Amodei vs. open-weights letter, Altman "singularity" claim, and more
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