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OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google confirm weeks of quiet coordination on AI safety, as China calls Amodei's slowdown pitch fearmongering and chipmakers take the hit. Plus Google opens Claude to its own engineers, Anthropic eyes a $2 trillion IPO, Ruby ships a bugfix release, and a wildcard: a four-week diet that reversed biological aging.

Ten items on the AI industry's safety-pacing debate rippling through markets and geopolitics, fresh dev-tool and Ruby releases, and a diet-and-aging wildcard.

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Rebecca Bellan, TechCrunch · Sep 15

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google have been in talks on AI safety for weeks

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind have coordinated on AI safety measures for several weeks, per OpenAI's policy chief.

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Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News · Sep 14

China dismisses AI slowdown calls and blasts 'fearmongering' from U.S. tech leaders

China's Foreign Ministry rejected Dario Amodei's call to slow AI development, calling it fearmongering.

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Cryptonomist · Sep 14

Anthropic's IPO valuation targets $2 trillion as CEO calls for AI slowdown

Anthropic is reportedly targeting a $2 trillion valuation for a planned Nasdaq initial public offering.

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Noel Randewich, Reuters · Sep 14

Wall Street ends down, calls for AI slowdown pummel chipmakers

Chipmaker stocks fell sharply after AI executives' safety warnings, with Treasury yields climbing ahead of the Fed decision.

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Aytun Çelebi, Dataconomy · Sep 15

Google opens Claude access to engineers across the company

Google began letting engineers use Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 internally, breaking its prior Gemini-only policy.

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Simon Willison · Sep 15

Gemini Live audio

Willison tests Google's new Gemini 3.8 Live speech models using a browser tool he built.

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RTÉ · Sep 9

Bank of Ireland grows partnership deal with Stripe

Bank of Ireland expanded its Stripe partnership to modernize payments and explore embedding Stripe's AI tools.

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k0kubun, Ruby core team · Sep 15

Ruby 4.0.7 Released

Ruby 4.0.7 shipped as a routine bugfix release for the Ruby 4.0 series.

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Noah Smith, Noahpinion · Sep 16

The anti-American Right

Argues a strain of the American Right employs zero-sum racial thinking incompatible with coalition-building politics.

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Wildcard · University of Sydney, ScienceDaily · Sep 15

Scientists reversed biological age in older adults in just 4 weeks

A four-week low-fat or low-animal-protein diet reduced biological-age markers in adults aged 65 to 75.