Microsoft sets limits for future AI models as industry throttles frontier development
Microsoft wants to be seen as a responsible AI entity as it ramps up model development alongside partners Anthropic and OpenAI.
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240 rankedIs Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?
When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately.
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Jensen Huang puts Trump on speakerphone onstage to announce robots won’t take over the world
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took a call from President Trump on Monday while onstage at the All-In Podcast's All-In Summit. It's not the first time Huang has taken a call from the president during work, but this time he put Trump on speakerphone before a big crowd. During the call, the president launched into his […]
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Why China’s Answer to Surge AI Got a $1 Billion Valuation On Just $30 Million in Orders
Unless you’ve been under a rock over the weekend, you’d know that the debate about AI safety took a big leap forward, as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday called for leading AI companies to slow the development of advanced AI, drawing supportive responses from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind chair Demis...
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Anthropic Data Fears Prompt NVIDIA, Palantir and Booz Allen to Restrict Model Use
As paranoia rises over whether Anthropic or OpenAI could learn from their customers’ intellectual property, large firms involved in sensitive corporate work, such as Palantir Technologies, Nvidia and Booz Allen Hamilton, have started demanding new guarantees or reducing or eliminating use of the AI firms’ most...
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AI Leaders Are Calling for a Slowdown. Trump’s Team Says It’s on Them
Sam Altman and Elon Musk this weekend backed a call for restraint, after Dario Amodei called on Washington to slow AI development. Donald Trump, meanwhile, wants the US to maintain its lead over China.
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🚨 BREAKING: DeepSeek engineer compares Anthropic controlling AGI to Hitler obtaining the atomic bomb "Future society goes one of two ways: communism or Cyberpunk 2077” Depends who controls AGI
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@tszzl>“Of course I would rather not be swept away by the revolution. But if I have to be, then I would rather be the one who revolutionizes myself.” When everyone is this determined to engineer their own obsolescence, I have little choice but to join this...
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@tszzlI believe sam and greg would rather shut down the organization than be some sort of a SaaS company...
This is quite an interesting essay from a DeepSeek engineer and it may highlight one area where OpenAI and Anthropic significantly disagree, at least publicly: OpenAI has tried very hard to give people access to the most powerful models on the order of...
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@fchollet> One could even define intelligence as the efficiency with which one converts experience into competence; by this definition they lag very far behind us Yes, one could define intelligence in this way, and one would be right. By this metric current AI is...
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@athyuttamre⚡️ 2.4x more ChatGPT Voice in Desktop We've dropped prices by ~60% for voice in Codex and Work in the desktop app, giving you more time to orchestrate tasks and even more tokens for real work.
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@reach_vbCodex tip: Use Astra as an orchestrator of threads and create + send tasks over to Sol/ Luna Once done, ask it to set up a heartbeat every 15 minutes to check in and course correct as needed Particularly for long running tasks it’s useful to reduce usage &...
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@emollickHaving Fable 5.1 Max and GPT-6 Astra Pro argue with each other over proposed translations of the famously untranslated Minoan language Linear A. (Neither of them appear to have cracked it, for what its worth). All the work so far at this GitHub:
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@dkokotajloDan Selsam is a current OpenAI capabilities researcher. (since 2022) He was my boss for a while. He doesn't have a twitter account but has made this public statement of his views on AI risk and sent it to me to share: Dan Selsam's Personal Statement on AI...
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@deanwballSome suppose that “safety” and “innovation” in AI are at odds. My suspicion is the opposite: the next generation of breakthroughs in AI will be in safety, alignment, and monitorability. Pushing the frontier forward from here will require dramatic...
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@brianchau57Anthropic and Irregular went on a press tour with literally apocalyptic language. ROGUE AGENTS. SWARMS. AI DOOM. But in reality, they told the models to conduct cyberattacks, and that's what the models did.
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@adrgrondinWith iOS 27 Apple introduced its most powerful on-device model: AFM 3 Core Advanced It’s a 20 billion parameters model activating only between 1 to 4 billion parameters depending on the request Here’s the model running on iPhone 17 Pro
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@sarahookrA more serious take on what is happening here. I am in an airport lounge so have some time. Enterprises have made an uneasy truce with frontier labs over last few years: strict contracts that ban training on corporate data in exchange for letting employees...
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@lyraxanaSiri AI is powered by Gemini, which internally uses the codename cider. Cider is an alcoholic drink made by fermenting apple juice. Nice naming skills atp.
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@joshwoodward2 months ago, we launched a Gemini power user group to test early features in the app. 20+ features tested later, your feedback has been incredible. Thank you! A new cohort is now getting early access to what’s next for Daily Brief & Personal Intelligence,...
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@synthwaveddClaude Opus 5.2 (they seem to be skipping 5.1 based on slugs specifically referencing "5.2" popping up recently) is likely being greyscale tested on Claude Code under the "Opus 5" name Claude Opus requests on Web still go to the older model. Opus 5 left,...
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@bchernyClaude Mods are landing now. Someone already built a Tetris-in-Claude mod 🤯 See issue for the latest community update, technical details, and more cool demos
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@mtsliveSITUATION DETECTED: Apple has released Siri AI, a completely reimagined version of Siri powered by the next generation of Apple Intelligence.
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@arenaCongrats to the @deepseek_ai team on this release!
Exciting news: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (Max) by @deepseek_ai just landed in Agent Arena at #3 among open models! With +4.87% net improvement and a median cost per task of $0.07 it reshaped the Pareto frontier. Among the top 3 open models, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash...
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@alexandr_wang"biggest consumer AI launch since ChatGPT" 🎉 🎊
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@yuchenj_uwIt’s been 23 days since I last opened Claude Code. It used to be one of my favorite products, but I think I prefer Codex now. Codex just works better with OSS models. And among OSS models, Kimi K3 is still unbeatable at coding.
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@elevenlabsIntroducing voice, music, image, and video generation in the ElevenLabs MCP. Generate speech, transcripts, dubs, music, sound effects, images, and video from the assistant you already work in.
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@mtsliveSITUATION DETECTED: Anthropic will not delay its 2026 IPO due to the current clamour over AI safety, and sees public-market transparency as a way to strengthen its safety case, per Axios.
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@omarsar0I am also going to release something soon to help with this.
On building an agent harness from scratch. Got so many questions about where to get started. My short guide (feed it to your agent): If you really want to learn harnesses well, it's worth building one from scratch using a programming language (TypeScript...
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@mtsliveSITUATION DETECTED: NVIDIA, Palantir, and Booz Allen Hamilton are restricting or eliminating the use of Anthropic and OpenAI models in some cases due to rising corporate data retention and intellectual property concerns, per The Information.
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AI infrastructure and compute
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Chipmakers and suppliers are expanding AI compute capacity amid data center capex projections, power grid constraints, and new networking and optical interconnect investment.
AI policy and governance +6.9Calls to slow frontier AI development drew pushback from the White House and industry figures, with regulation debate spreading across Washington and markets.
Coding agents and workflows +2.2Practitioners are mapping agent harnesses, frameworks, and MCP layers while coding agents strain CI and benchmarks show uneven reliability in real workflows.
Capital and consolidation steadyFunding rounds and acquisitions kept consolidating AI capability, from networking and robotics startups to an OpenAI camera acquisition and NVIDIA's expanded MediaTek investment.
Robotics and embodied AI -0.3Robotics evidence clusters around humanoid supply strategies, new manipulation policies trained from demonstrations, and standard-tier robotic hands for multiple platforms.
Frontier model releases -2.8Model capability signals center on a coding benchmark result and third-party models being integrated into Apple's next Siri release.
Quick takes
Frontier labs are shipping model generations aimed at agentic workflows and cybersecurity, with OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash Cyber landing within days of each other.Coding agents are moving into measured production use, with 1Password reporting a 21% engineering productivity gain and OpenAI documenting internal research acceleration from agent workflows.Frontier lab leaders publicly backed pacing model development while Microsoft set limits on future models, pointing toward shared governance norms rather than unilateral capability races.Frontier labs including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are coordinating around development pacing and shared safety standards, while hardware executives and policymakers resist slowdowns to protect national competitiveness.Heightened corporate data governance concerns are prompting enterprise clients and defense contractors to restrict deployment of frontier models over proprietary intellectual property exposure.Calls by frontier lab executives to pace advanced AI development and coordinate safety standards face divergence from hardware providers and government policymakers prioritizing competitive momentum.Enterprise adoption in sensitive sectors is encountering friction over intellectual property governance and agent security, prompting major contractors to curtail model deployments or demand stricter operational guarantees.The computational demands of persistent agentic models are intensifying data center construction, compelling infrastructure operators to negotiate directly with local municipalities over grid capacity and energy sourcing.
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AI-linked equities are under pressure, with Arm Holdings plc -9.74%, Super Micro Computer -8.38%, Broadcom. -4.77% driving the tracked basket lower.
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| ARM | Arm Holdings plc | -9.74% |
| SMCI | Super Micro Computer | -8.38% |
| AVGO | Broadcom. | -4.77% |
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices | -4.40% |