Ben Thompson turns his objection to Anthropic's 'pace the frontier' argument from philosophy to strategy: pausing may be sincere, but it also buys the frontier labs time to absorb the capability overhangs their own model advances create, which conveniently aligns with their business interests.
A guest post by Po-Shen Loh on Terence Tao's blog, written after OpenAI's Navier-Stokes announcement pushed thousands of mathematicians to sign open letters. Loh takes the economists' 'adapt and cede control' objection seriously and argues the same logic applied to every job leads to a labor shortage, not a surplus.
Fights over data centers have become a fault line in city halls and county commissions across the country, cutting across party lines and producing odd alliances. A Brookings fellow says they have 'upended politics as we know it' at the local level.
Treasury Secretary Bessent says the US floated a US-China mechanism for flagging AI incidents during pre-summit talks, days before Xi arrives in the US on September 23. The two countries compete on AI but share safety concerns, and this would be the first concrete channel.