Anthropic, Google and OpenAI are discussing a FINRA-style industry body to test advanced AI before release, while OpenAI backs the bipartisan FRONTIER Act requiring frontier labs to embed outside safety evaluators in development.
OpenAI backs the bipartisan FRONTIER Act’s requirement that major AI firms give independent safety evaluators access, while Sam Altman says the company will voluntarily embed third-party reviewers and the mandate targets companies above revenue and computing-investment thresholds.
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.
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, 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.
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.
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.