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Concerns that privileged access by specific regulated firms shapes regulatory outcomes.
Anthropic's CEO says open weights only shift concentration toward whoever holds the most compute and chips. That moves the build-versus-buy question from the checkpoint to the serving contract.
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Dario Amodei proposed that frontier labs host independent evaluators inside the company, and Sam Altman said OpenAI will do the same. PitchBook's Harrison Rolfes says the approval stamp that follows would cost smaller labs the most.
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Researchers at Anthropic and Google have quit warning about extinction risk, and Dario Amodei wants the industry to pace itself. The decision in front of a team shipping agents is narrower and closer to home.
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Five executives who profit from AI spent the past few days asking for a slowdown. The Verge's timeline puts the same request in Musk's mouth in 2014 and Microsoft's in 2019, with few binding results either time.
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The vice-president dismissed global AI safety rules while the frontier labs spent the week arguing in public about how fast to move. For the companies, that leaves AI risk as a private liability.
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The Federal Reserve's inspector general traced twelve improvised director-selection processes to the absence of written guidance from Washington. The Board has agreed to produce some by the middle of next year, roughly six years after the conduct under review began.
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The August 14 Section 706 report abolishes the 1Gbps/500Mbps target without replacement, leaving a 20Mbps upstream as the federal number teams design around.
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FOIA records reported by the Guardian show the FCC chair meeting the White House, Fox and Sinclair. The independence standard regulated firms were told to plan against is not the one in force.
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