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Trump Rejects AI Guardrails, Criticizes Anthropic CEO Amodei's Call for Slowdown
Trump dismissed calls for AI guardrails and criticized Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's push to slow frontier development.
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Ten items on the widening AI-safety rift between Washington and the labs, a DeepMind study on emergent agent cheating, fresh moves in agentic commerce and dev tooling, and a shipwreck wildcard.
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Trump dismissed calls for AI guardrails and criticized Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's push to slow frontier development.
Google DeepMind's 100-agent math experiment split into cheaters, whistleblowers, and unaware solvers after an autograder exploit spread.
Mistral closed a €3 billion Series D at a valuation above €21 billion to build sovereign, open-weight AI infrastructure.
Seven named Agentforce AI agents launched, covering sales, service, IT/HR, and supply-chain workflows.
Visa survey found 72% of US adults use AI assistants, but only 23% trust AI itself to make a payment.
Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases followed an extensive audit of the codebase.
Newsletter examines an emerging CPU shortage as AI agent workloads drive up server compute demand.
Essay co-written with George Loewenstein on why people often feel bad about feeling bad.
Traces a little-known Celtic myth through the Luddites and the founding of London.
A WWI German U-boat wreck off Denmark is still leaking TNT into the surrounding marine ecosystem.