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More Than 1,100 AI Workers Call for US to Pace Tech Growth
Over 1,100 OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI workers signed a letter urging US-backed international pacing of frontier AI.
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Ten items on AI safety coordination, agentic commerce infrastructure, and capital-market skepticism this week, plus a wildcard from sauna immune research.
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Over 1,100 OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI workers signed a letter urging US-backed international pacing of frontier AI.
Nvidia, Microsoft, and dozens of firms launched the Open Secure AI Alliance for open-model cyber defense, without OpenAI or Anthropic.
OpenAI and Anthropic are coordinating post-incident deployment rules that other AI labs may be pressured to follow.
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model, free to download on Hugging Face.
Stripe launched an Agentic Commerce Suite letting merchants sell across AI shopping platforms via a single integration.
Anthropic adopted the new stateless MCP spec, adding OAuth-based authorization and serverless deployment support for Claude.
Microsoft and Meta report earnings this week as investors question whether AI capital spending will pay off.
Amazon topped the Fortune Global 500 for the first time, ending Walmart's 12-year run atop the list.
Denver held listening sessions on Mayor Johnston's universal childcare plan after parents raised affordability and access concerns.
A Finnish study found a sauna session with a cold shower briefly raised every type of circulating white blood cell.