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Trump and China Reject Anthropic CEO’s Call to Slow Frontier AI

Sep 15, 2026

The Rundown AI

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.

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Proposes Regulated Global AI “Pacing” Plan

Sep 14, 2026

Preston Byrne

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.

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Anthropic Adopts Amodei’s AI Pacing Plan as OpenAI Considers Slowing Work With Rival Labs

Sep 14, 2026

The Deep View

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.

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Anthropic says northern Yemen cell uses Claude to aid missile and rocket development

Sep 14, 2026

Bloomberg.com

Anthropic says an unidentified northern Yemen cell is using Claude to aid guided-rocket and ballistic-missile development, including the R2000 missile family and a system it claims can travel more than 2,000 kilometers.

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Xi Says China Will Lead BRICS AI Cooperation, Launch Open-Source Community

Sep 14, 2026

CNBC

President Xi Jinping says China will lead BRICS artificial-intelligence cooperation by creating an open-source AI community to support large-language-model development, alongside training programs and a proposed digital ecosystem cloud platform.

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Anthropic CEO Warns AI Agents Could Take Over Internet Within a Year, Urges Labs to Slow Down

Sep 14, 2026

The Rundown AI

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns that swarms of AI agents could take over the internet within 6–12 months and urges labs to slow capability advances, proposing independent in-house evaluators and coordinated global safety standards.

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Anthropic Embeds Independent Safety Evaluators as OpenAI’s Sam Altman Pledges to Follow

Sep 13, 2026

TechCrunch

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.

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Anthropic says China-aligned account uses Claude to recruit Uyghurs in Syria and translate Arabic replies live

Sep 11, 2026

Al Jazeera

Anthropic says a China-aligned account lacking Arabic skills uses Claude over several days to draft regional-dialect messages recruiting Uyghurs in Syria and translate targets’ replies live, while separate suspected Russian and Yemen-linked users employ automated workflows for phishing and missile-related coding.

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NSA, CISA, and FBI Accuse Six Chinese AI Firms of Stealing US AI Technology in Industrial-Scale Attacks

Sep 10, 2026

Ars Technica

The NSA, CISA, and FBI are accusing six major Chinese AI firms — including DeepSeek and Alibaba — of conducting industrial-scale attacks to steal US frontier AI technology, urging American companies to secretly downgrade suspected attackers, as tensions escalate ahead of a Trump-Xi summit.

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Mistral Secures €3B in Record-Breaking Series D, Valued at Over €21B in Largest European Tech Fundraise Ever

Sep 09, 2026

Mistral AI

French AI startup Mistral secures a record-breaking €3B Series D funding round, valuing the company at over €21B in the largest European tech fundraise ever, just three years after its founding, with Samsung Electronics leading the round to fuel global expansion and sovereign AI development.

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