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Critics argue that "pacing the frontier" rhetoric from Anthropic and OpenAI leaders Dario Amodei and Sam Altman functions as regulatory capture that could eventually restrict open-weight and locally run AI models, pointi…
Alvin Graylin, a technologist who has worked in AI on both sides of the Pacific since the early 1990s, argues the US-China AI arms race is largely a myth used to justify bad policy and overspending, pointing to open-weig…
Andrej Karpathy coined the term "vibe coding" in a 2 February 2025 post on X describing building software from AI prompts without reading the code, and Collins named it its Word of the Year 2025 on 6 November 2025. Verac…
A study of sequence weighting across in-house and open-weight language models found non-monotonic scaling behavior: as models grow from small to medium scale they shift from learning general patterns independent of data …
Andon Labs reported on 13 September that OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra averaged a final balance of $15,515 across six runs of the year-long Vending-Bench 2 simulation, nearly tripling Claude Fable 5.1's $5,422 average and recordi…
OpenAI and Anthropic have slowed their release cadence amid heightened regulatory and safety scrutiny, according to an Axios report published September 13, 2026. The article, which drew 2 points and 1 comment on Hacker N…
A Stanford-led paper titled "Intelligence per Watt" (arXiv 2511.07885) reports that AI inference efficiency improved 5.3 times from 2023 to 2025, with model improvements contributing a 3.1 times gain and accelerator impr…
Around 30 robots marched through Warsaw on Monday in a protest organized by the Democratism initiative to demand AI regulation outside Poland's digital affairs ministry, according to AFP. Organizer Grzegorz Kulis said th…
Freelance Clearing v1.0.1 was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-13 as a hosted remote over streamable-http, according to the mcpindex index. The mcpindex semantic screen returned a PARTIAL status with an …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are calling for federal regulation of frontier AI development, a plan White House tech adviser David Sacks says the companies do not need permission to act on themselv…
US President Donald Trump dismissed calls from leading AI executives to slow artificial-intelligence development, telling reporters in Doonbeg, Ireland, on Sunday that he wants to preserve the US lead over China because …
The MCP server io.github.lbailey94/whitemagic-mcp, a local-first memory and session continuity tool for AI coding agents, was published at version 9.1.4 to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-13, distributed as whitemag…
A developer examines Grok Bot, an AI agent being demoed in a 72-hour "Grok Bot Galaxy" event, arguing that agent architecture—not just smarter models—is what lets AI move from answering prompts to executing multi-step wo…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a coordinated slowdown in frontier AI development in a September 12 essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" and a CBS Sunday Morning appearance, warning that advanced AI systems cap…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told CBS's "Sunday Morning" that the U.S. and China should pursue "disarmament negotiations" and "arms limitation" talks over artificial intelligence, comparing the AI race to the Cold War when…
OWASP released the Agentic Skills Top 10 (AST10) framework on August 17, 2026, following Black Hat and DEF CON, to address security flaws in reusable AI agent skills. The framework arrived after five of the top seven mos…
A developer building MCP access for Lutions, a private project and ticket management web application, implemented a secure MCP server that exposes only six read-only tools to AI hosts. The design restricts the server to …
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1159 on Thursday, prohibiting technology companies from using student data to train or develop AI models, with stricter rules taking effect next year for education techno…
US President Donald Trump downplayed warnings about artificial intelligence risks during a visit to Ireland, saying "You have a lot of very negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up and the…
A paper submitted to arXiv on 10 Sep 2026, titled "The Last AI Built by Humans: Toward Genuine Recursive Self-Improvement," proposes a development roadmap for recursive self-improvement (RSI) in AI systems. The paper use…