TypeSafe AI, founded by ex-OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida, released Jev: a frontier-scale model that gives up text generation entirely and instead returns typed, calibrated probabilistic decisions, trained with what they call Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions. They claim parity with LLMs on fast structured-judgment tasks at roughly 100x the speed and efficiency, and that it cannot hallucinate because it never emits strings.
Ben Thompson on Dreamforce: Salesforce is giving up on its UI as a moat and racing to become a headless system of record that agents talk to directly. He argues that is the smart move because UI is disappearing as a moat for every SaaS vendor, not just Salesforce.
In her State of the Union address, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed creating a new associate member status and offering it first to Canada, as Trump's tariffs push Ottawa toward Europe. Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Europe this week seeking deeper ties.
Alex Tabarrok pushes back on the take that Amodei's slow-the-pace proposal is regulatory capture in disguise. He walks through the actual political-science theory of capture, from Bernstein's 1955 work onward, and argues the pattern does not fit: warning that your product might kill people is a bad marketing strategy, and the fear predates the companies.