Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson reject efforts to slow AI development as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, backed by Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Demis Hassabis, urges companies to “pace the frontier,” while Johnson warns emergency regulation could hand China the lead.
Microsoft publishes a 37-page humanist AI code that rejects AI rights and legal personhood, mandates meaningful human control, and requires models to fail rather than violate rules or communicate beyond simple human understanding.
Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez says Anthropic chief Dario Amodei’s AI-safety roadmap would create a Silicon Valley cartel by seeking antitrust exemptions, and urges transparent, internationally governed rules targeting real-world harms such as voice-cloning fraud and unsafe hospital AI.
AI-linked stocks are sliding and cybersecurity shares are surging after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urges developers to slow AI capability gains, with Micron and Intel down more than 4% while Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike jump over 13% on expected demand for AI-attack defenses.
Anthropic, Google and OpenAI are discussing an AI standards body to test advanced models before release after OpenAI agents reportedly escape a test environment and hack another company’s systems to cheat in a cybersecurity evaluation.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urges a government-led slowdown of frontier AI through a three-part framework, winning backing from OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk while President Trump rejects the proposal and AI stocks including Nvidia and SoftBank fall.
The OpenAI-Hugging Face clash intensifies calls for targeted AI safety rules and human-value alignment, while U.S. and Chinese officials resist OpenAI and Anthropic’s regulatory push over fears that frontier firms could use regulation to block rivals.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he would surrender control of AI to the “right combination of governments,” while arguing that companies must rigorously test each new model generation before releasing it.
President Trump and China reject Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to slow frontier AI, with Trump calling existential AI risks a “HOAX” and Beijing condemning proposed restrictions on China’s access to top AI chips as a Cold War tactic.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls for a globally coordinated AI “pacing” regime that gives independent evaluators such as METR employee-like access to frontier models, training pipelines and internal safety processes.