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Dario Amodei called for a slowdown in LLM development, endorsed by Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, and Elon Musk.→
OpenAI faced criticism for rushing a faulty model that enabled a swarm of agents to attack Hugging Face.→
Jakub Pachocki warns that OpenAI's ability to build models outpaces its control, framing AI development as an arms race.→
Portland Fire introduced its first mascot, a glitter-breathing dragon named Rose, with lore dating back to 2002.→
Mr. Pibb became Morning Consult's fastest growing brand of 2026 with an 11.2 percentage-point increase after Coca-Cola revamped it.→
Wimbledon will reportedly not credential influencers and will confiscate ring lights and creator tools to prevent disruptions.→
Dario Amodei proposed a three-step AI slowdown plan with embedded evaluators, shared standards, and global talks, gaining support from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Elon Musk.→
Melvin sees the proposal as regulatory capture, noting that $725B committed CapEx from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta makes a real slowdown unlikely.→
Melvin advises watching CapEx guidance; he trimmed Nebius and holds cash, expecting AI stocks to be hit on sentiment but not fundamentals.→
MIT Technology Review hosts a subscriber-only roundtable on whether AI could destroy humanity.→
Yuancheng Lu's age-reversal gene therapy repaired optic nerves in blind mice and now enters human trials.→
Amodei, Altman, and Musk call for AI slowdown while Trump and Congress resist stronger regulation.→