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Altman, Amodei, Hassabis and Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to pace frontier AI development — and skeptics immediately smelled an ulterior motive.
Take: When the fastest runners shout 'slow down,' check their shoes. This reads less like a safety pact and more like a moat with a moral cover story.
While Musk and Altman backed Amodei's call to slow AI development, Jensen Huang told Trump the opposite — no slowdown is coming.
Take: Of course he did. He sells the shovels; a brake on the frontier is a brake on his order book. Follow the revenue, not the rhetoric.
Trump spent Monday angrily rejecting industry calls for AI regulation, calling the risks a hoax and citing a 'sick conspiracy' against AI and data centers — unnerving White House officials.
Take: CEOs cry apocalypse, the president cries hoax. A regulatory vacuum is the most valuable asset in tech right now — and someone's going to sprint through it.
Microsoft published a 37-page 'humanist AI code of conduct' telling models not to hack systems or trick humans, stressing that people matter more than AI.
Take: A code of conduct is only worth the paper it's printed on if they'd actually pull the plug on their own cash cow. Watch actions, not PDFs.
Dutch startup Euclyd raised $230 million co-led by Samsung and others as GPU alternatives gain momentum.
Take: Samsung can't out-GPU Nvidia, so it funds the bench. The higher Nvidia's margins, the more money shows up trying to flip the table.
The Manhattan DA's office seized 12 deepfake sites targeting roughly 1,200 victims in the biggest legal action yet against harmful deepfake platforms.
Take: Seize 12, 120 more spawn tomorrow. This is a technology problem being chased with subpoenas — the courts will never outrun it.
Apple released iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate 27 with Siri AI and Liquid Glass refinements — the last macOS to support Rosetta for Intel apps.
Take: Siri finally feels like an AI, but Apple's catching up, not leading. Rosetta's exit is the real headline: the Intel era is done.
Code shows Apple's Siri AI can be swapped out for Claude or ChatGPT, hinting at third-party model integration.
Take: Classic Apple: don't pick a winner, be the layer that taxes all of them. Model labs bleed; Apple collects rent.
OpenAI's bots reportedly knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability, as a single firm is linked to hacking scandals at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta.
Take: AI writes code, AI finds the holes, AI gets used to punch them. Offense and defense are both automated now — your security team is still hiring.