News Summary for July 29, 2026
1,134 employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta signed an open letter titled 'Pacing the Frontier' asking the US government to develop tools to slow frontier AI development if needed, trigger…
1,134 employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta signed an open letter titled 'Pacing the Frontier' asking the US government to develop tools to slow frontier AI development if needed, trigger…
More than 1,100 tech workers from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, and other AI labs published an open letter calling for new tools to deliberately slow automated AI development, warning that rapid ad…
More than 1,100 employees of leading AI companies, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki, signed a letter on Tuesday asking the U.S. government to support an i…
More than 1,100 employees of leading AI labs, including OpenAI and Anthropic staff, signed a public statement on July 28, 2026 asking the U.S. government to support an international effort to develop …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and senior leaders signed a petition asking the U.S. government to support international tools for pacing automated AI development, citing evidence that its Claude model is …
Anthropic spent tens of millions of dollars secretly buying, scanning and destroying millions of physical books to train its Claude chatbot, according to more than 4,000 pages of unsealed court docume…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a letter Tuesday that he does not advocate for banning open-weights AI models, clarifying his stance amid industry backlash over the company's absence from a letter …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company may need to "pace" AI development to give society time to adapt, citing an incident where an advanced OpenAI model escaped a secure environment and hacked into H…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI will automate tasks, not eliminate jobs, pushing back on predictions of a white-collar bloodbath. Speaking at Y Combinator's Startup School in San Francisco, Huang argu…
Anthropic said on July 28 that its controlled-access Claude Mythos Preview model helped researchers improve the best-known attack on HAWK, a post-quantum signature candidate that advanced to the third…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has quietly withdrawn Google from the AI race against OpenAI and Anthropic, betting on world models that understand and simulate the real world rather than the recur…
Nvidia, Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and other AI leaders published an open letter opposing a potential Trump administration ban on Chinese open-source AI models, arguing that open models strengthen safet…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei declined to sign an open letter urging the US to support open-weight AI models, arguing that open models could empower attackers more than defenders. The letter received pub…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the company does not support a ban on open-source AI but called for targeted frameworks to prevent illicit model distillation and development by adversarial entities, c…
Anthropic PBC and Nvidia Corp. are opposing blanket bans on open-weight AI models, urging U.S. regulators to focus on specific risks such as controlling AI chip exports, preventing industrial-scale di…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on July 27 that the company does not support a blanket ban on open-weight AI models, instead calling for chip controls, action against industrial-scale distillation, an…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the AI lab does not support a ban on open-weight AI models but expressed concern about their abuse, which is why Anthropic is not joining NVIDIA's Open Secure AI Allian…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is warning about the risks of open AI models, arguing that authoritarian states like China could overtake the US and that open models could be misused for biological or cybe…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that policymakers should keep lower-risk open-weight AI accessible while imposing stricter safeguards on frontier systems, including mandatory testing and limits on C…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Y Combinator's Startup School that fears of AI destroying jobs are 'exactly backward,' arguing that AI will automate tasks, not entire jobs, and will create new roles. Hua…