China Just Erased the Pricing Moat: DeepSeek Beats Claude Opus, Anthropic CEO Says Labs Moving Too Fast, Trump Rejects AI Slowdown + 7 More
The frontier labs are having a reckoning. Dario Amodei at Anthropic published a detailed essay this week arguing that AI development has outpaced safety research, and for the first time, he got cautious support from Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis. But the mechanisms he proposed remain vague, and critics point out the core coordination problem: slow down and someone else speeds up.
That tension plays out everywhere in this episode. Trump rejected calls to slow frontier development, arguing speed matters more than safety concerns. House Speaker Mike Johnson said companies themselves…
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