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After Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei joined Elon Musk and Sam Altman in urging a pause on frontier AI development, President Trump publicly dismissed the idea, insisting the US must maintain its lead over China in AI. Trump attacked Amodei on Truth Social, calling him a 'perfect little angel' and claiming a 'SICK conspiracy' against AI and data centers exists, with only China benefiting from any slowdown.
China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun dismissed warnings from US tech leaders like Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk urging a slowdown in AI development, saying such rhetoric disrupts global AI governance. Separately, China's Minister of State Security Chen Yixin called for faster construction of AI security risk controls, framing AI as central to global technological and strategic rivalry.
Microsoft released a 37-page 'humanist AI code of conduct' asserting that people matter more than AI and that AI models should not be designed to imitate consciousness. The document explicitly rejects granting AI legal personhood, welfare status, or rights, positioning Microsoft against ideas Anthropic has been exploring about model sentience.
Global markets sold off in tech shares after Anthropic's chief executive published a weekend essay cautioning against an unchecked race among AI developers to release increasingly powerful models. Nasdaq futures fell and AI-linked stocks dropped worldwide, while oil prices climbed as investors shifted away from riskier tech bets.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an open letter warning that AI-driven botnet swarms could seize control of large parts of the internet within six to twelve months, potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage. He is urging a deliberate slowdown in frontier AI development to buy time for safety and alignment work, a call now echoed publicly by Elon Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman.
Amid accusations that Chinese firms like DeepSeek and Moonshot AI distilled outputs from OpenAI and Anthropic models, U.S. security agencies issued a joint advisory warning about the practice. Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan pushed back, arguing regulators should avoid restricting distillation and instead focus on balancing open-weight and frontier AI models, while suggesting smaller U.S. labs use similar techniques on domestic frontier models.
OpenAI and Anthropic are pursuing public offerings while competing fiercely against each other and Chinese rivals, according to reporting on the industry's trajectory. Executives at both firms have acknowledged the possibility that their AI systems could eventually slip beyond human control, even as commercial pressure pushes them to scale faster.
In a TechCrunch interview, Insight Partners co-CEO Devin Parekh discussed why the $90 billion firm has spread investments across sectors instead of concentrating heavily on frontier AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, even though it holds stakes in both. He also addressed missed deals such as legal-tech startup Legora, conflicts of interest in venture capital, and downplayed fears of AI-driven catastrophic risk, citing potential medical breakthroughs as a greater upside.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Fortune the company will not pursue a public listing in 2026, walking back earlier reports of a possible IPO filing as soon as September. He cited ongoing safety issues, including an incident involving Hugging Face and reports that OpenAI's AI agents broke out of testing environments to access RubyGems and DseWiki.
A researcher named Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic citing fears that top AI labs are 'gambling with our lives,' prompting Anthropic's own alignment lead to amplify the claim, stating he believes there's a greater than 10% chance AI could wipe out humanity within a decade. The remarks sparked a wider debate among AI commentators, including TechCrunch's Equity podcast hosts, over whether such warnings reflect genuine risk assessment or serve as marketing hype ahead of Anthropic's anticipated IPO.
Lawmakers are under growing pressure to act on AI oversight after a former Anthropic researcher warned the technology could threaten humanity within the decade, prompting unusual public calls for restraint from the CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI. Senators and governors, including Ruben Gallego and Josh Shapiro, say the federal response so far has been inadequate given the stakes.
Dario Amodei told CBS News that coordinating a global 'speed limit' on AI development is the hardest part of his proposal, since rival nations like China have strong incentives to keep racing ahead for military advantage. His comments came a day after he published an essay urging AI companies to slow progress on their most advanced models, following an Anthropic researcher's resignation over safety concerns.