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News of the day
1. AI leaders urge a slowdown in development, but Trump's team insists companies must self-regulate, citing competition with China. → Read more
2. Greg brockman says agi has arrived and it's a huge challenge for us to scale up the raw potential and capabilities of these models to everyone. → Read more
3. The Clay Mathematics Institute announced that the Navier-Stokes problem, a Millennium Prize Problem, has apparently been solved, with a formal review pending. → Read more
4. AI development 'pacing' isn't about slowing down, but implementing a framework for more checks and balances, ensuring fairer competition. → Read more
Our take
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Something rare just happened in Silicon Valley: the people building AI are the ones asking to slow down. Dario Amodei of Anthropic, backed publicly by Sam Altman and even Elon Musk, called for a deceleration to better understand the risks emerging from increasingly capable models. Their ask is concrete: government frameworks that would let companies collaborate on safety standards without tripping over antitrust laws, plus some international coordination.
The answer from Washington came fast and cold. Donald Trump dismissed the warnings as "negative forces," while adviser David Sacks argued that if companies want to slow down, they can do it themselves, without forming cartels or asking anyone's permission. The logic behind the refusal is no mystery: "We are ahead of China," Trump said, and in his view, whoever wins on AI wins everything. When the arsonists start asking for fire extinguishers, maybe listen to the arsonists.
Here is the uncomfortable truth: the White House position, however brutal it sounds, exposes a real contradiction. These same labs spent years racing each other at full throttle, and nobody forced them to. Asking the government for a mandated pause looks a lot like asking someone else to take responsibility for your own restraint. That said, the "just self-regulate" answer is a fantasy in a competitive market. No lab will unilaterally slow down while rivals sprint ahead, which is precisely why coordination mechanisms exist in the first place. Dismissing that as cartel behavior misses the point entirely.
The result is a stalemate where safety becomes a campaign talking point ahead of the midterms rather than a policy question. OpenAI opening up to third-party evaluations is a decent gesture, but voluntary measures have a well-documented shelf life. This debate is far from over, and it deserves better than slogans from either side.
G.
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