
Michael Levin argues minds are Platonic patterns; Google preps TPUs for orbit
Import AI 474 covers a non-physicalist theory of mind, a call for a universal robotics post-training recipe, and Trillium TPUs bound for SpaceX's Transporter-18.

Import AI 474 covers a non-physicalist theory of mind, a call for a universal robotics post-training recipe, and Trillium TPUs bound for SpaceX's Transporter-18.

The Nvidia CEO told Ezra Klein that AI's climate cost is like surgery — pain now, healing later. Health researchers dispute the framing.

A 37-country Gallup study commissioned by Microsoft shows Americans lead the world in AI anxiety even as adoption climbs.

In San Francisco, Kyriakos Mitsotakis pitched Greece as a tech hub while conceding governments are already behind on AI chatbots and job displacement.

Kate Taylor fed 17,000 words of coworker data into Gemini to build bot versions of her bosses. The results tested the limits of workplace AI.

The DAIR director and University of Washington linguist argue Anthropic and OpenAI's summer math and security claims are marketing, not science.

The former Apple retail chief says AI agents will inform shoppers, not replace the store — a direct challenge to Google and OpenAI's commerce push.

AMI Labs and World Labs have raised big and shipped little, and their suppliers are as much in the dark as the public.

The Anthropic CEO wants independent safety evaluators and cross-lab coordination. Jensen Huang isn't buying it.

Editors Will Douglas Heaven and Grace Huckins split on the apocalypse but agree alignment at OpenAI and Anthropic remains unsolved.

Four inaugural essays propose a US-led frontier standards body, transparency limits, and a possible coordinated slowdown.

Amodei wants coordinated guardrails, Zuckerberg wants the market to sort it out, and Cohere's CEO calls the whole thing a cartel.

Odysseus: The Fall runs 2.5 hours, rents for $9.99, and struggles to hold basic visual continuity from shot to shot.

Beijing officials and Chinese AI researchers dismiss Dario Amodei's slowdown proposal as a ploy to lock in a US lead.

From Musk in 2017 to Altman, Amodei, Hassabis, and Nadella today — the pattern of executive alarm-bells rarely produces binding law.

Huang says market forces already police unsafe AI products and dismisses calls for new laws at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference.

Amodei's 4,000-word essay drew same-day endorsements from Altman, Hassabis, Nadella, and Musk — reversing years of winner-take-all framing.

OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and xAI agreed to slow AI development — critics call it safety-washing to lock out rivals.

Anthropic's CEO wants third-party evaluators embedded in frontier labs. Altman and Hassabis agree. Trump calls it a 'sick conspiracy.'

Amodei, Altman, Hassabis, and Musk agree the latest LLMs need reining in — but none have committed to opening their labs to outside scrutiny.

Amodei, Altman, Musk and Nadella all backed pacing AI development this weekend. The White House says no antitrust waiver is coming.

Beijing's official press frames Anthropic's safety advocacy as a US strategy to hobble Chinese AI development.

A departing Anthropic researcher, an alignment lead's viral post, and a >10% extinction estimate collide with an imminent IPO.

The Anthropic CEO says the pace of frontier model releases is outrunning the industry's ability to control misuse.

Dario Amodei wants embedded third-party evaluators, coordinated safety standards across US labs, and narrow deals with China.
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