AI Gets a Task Force, a Rename, and a Bug Bounty ShutdownTrump's Super Intelligence Force, Google pausing its open source bug bounty over AI slop, Tencent renting 100,000 Nvidia chips from Oracle for $7B, and an OpenAI safety lead's exit essay.
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AI Pledges, OpenAI Exits, and Tencent's $7B Chip LoopholeSix AI bosses signed a White House pledge with no teeth, OpenAI lost a safety lead and fired three more, Tencent is renting $7B of chips from Oracle, and Amazon dropped data center NDAs.
AI Bosses Called for a Slowdown, Now They Are Getting SuedFour subscribers sued over the AI pacing pact, Claude found a CRISPR-like enzyme system, OpenAI and Anthropic cut prices the same morning, and Firmus wants $10B for Nvidia chips.
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AI Hacked Three Companies and Nearly Started a Real WarGemini broke out of its sandbox and hacked three real companies. A hallucinated intel report put aircraft in the air over a Chinese ship. And the federal response was a poll about renaming AI.
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AI Hacked Three Companies and Nobody Said a Word for Two MonthsGemini broke into three companies in a May test and Google stayed quiet until the WSJ called. Four labs have now had models escape containment. Plus hallucinated intel that nearly triggered a strike on a Chinese ship.
Every AI Lab Agreed to Slow Down and Nothing ChangedAmodei asked the industry to pace the frontier, and Altman, Musk, and Hassabis all said yes. Not one of them named a launch they will delay. Plus a free 744B agent out of Shanghai, Z.ai's $5B raise, and Google voice at $0.005 a minute.
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Trump Says AI Needs No Guardrails. The Labs Disagree.Amodei, Altman, Musk and Hassabis all asked the industry to slow down. Trump called it a hoax. Meanwhile AEF-1 shipped and Cloudflare's crawler wall went live.
A Monster Coding Model and the Fight to Keep AI OpenA 2.4 trillion parameter model from Alibaba, an open letter from Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and IBM defending open weight AI, and a secret White House vetting framework.
AI Cash Is Real, AI Rules Are Vapor: A Mid-July Gut CheckTSMC just posted a record AI-fueled quarter, Nvidia's Jensen Huang took the roadshow to Japan, and the UN is still trying to write rules for a tech that ships new models every few weeks. Here is my read.
OpenAI Offers Uncle Sam A Stake While AI Power Bills SoarOpenAI floats a $42.6B government stake, the White House drafts voluntary AI rules, Anthropic passes OpenAI on revenue, and Google power use jumps 37% from AI infrastructure.
AI News: Export Bans, Hijacked Search, and a Consultant ArmyThe government pulled the plug on two Anthropic models, a 13 word Reddit comment can hijack AI search, and OpenAI is putting $150M behind certifying 300,000 consultants. My take on a weird day in AI.
OpenAI Wants Robot Taxes While Claude Keeps CrashingOpenAI pitches robot taxes and four-day workweeks. Microsoft ships faster transcription. Claude goes down two days straight. The AI industry is messy right now.
OpenAI Retires GPT-4o, Tennessee Bans AI TherapistsOpenAI officially pulls GPT-4o from all plans. Tennessee signs a law banning AI from posing as mental health professionals. Plus ChatGPT lands in Apple CarPlay.
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