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.
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.
SoftBank secures an upsized $11.87 billion two-year loan from roughly 20 banks for its OpenAI investment, while its shares plunge as much as 13% amid plans to repay $25.9 billion in September and potentially sell up to $20 billion in U.S. junk bonds.
Anthropic adopts Dario Amodei’s plan to pace frontier AI development with embedded third-party safety evaluators and coordinated standards, while OpenAI considers slowing collaboration with rival labs and has paused some safety runs to strengthen security.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan urges regulators to leave AI-model distillation alone, arguing that frontier labs can retain a price premium even as open-weight alternatives proliferate amid Anthropic and OpenAI accusations against Chinese AI firms including DeepSeek.
Index Ventures says FOMO-driven AI investing can be viable as startups across models, chips, healthcare, legal and defense command $1 billion-plus valuations, provided founders are solving real customer problems.
OpenAI rules out a 2026 IPO as Sam Altman backs pauses at new AI capability levels to improve safety and alignment, while Anthropic’s Dario Amodei pledges independent evaluators permanent employee-level access.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company will not pursue an IPO in 2026, calling a listing now “ill-advised” until both its business and society are ready for the technology, despite reported preparations for a late-2026 debut.
Anthropic embeds independent safety evaluators inside its operations with badges, desks, laptops and internal-level access, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says OpenAI will follow Dario Amodei’s model.