🎙 EP 380: Anthropic to Ban High-Risk Models & Inception Launches Mercury 3 Diffusion Model
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Anthropic proposed federal legislation empowering judges to block frontier AI model releases if independent evaluators determine they present a foreseeable, imminent risk of massive casualties or severe property damage. Meanwhile, Inception released Mercury 3, a non-autoregressive diffusion-based language model capable of parallel token generation, reaching 1,068 tokens per second while matching GPT-6 Luna performance at 4–8× faster speeds.
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Legislative framework…
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