Anthropic's head of public policy, Sarah Heck, said at Politico's Decoded summit that AI firms should not be trusted to police themselves and need government involvement in safety oversight. Her remarks follow CEO Dario Amodei's call for the industry to slow model development, a proposal backed by Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Demis Hassabis but rejected by Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, who argue speed and safety can coexist without new regulation.
Google has released a new sorting algorithm that reimagines the classic Quicksort using vectorized, SIMD-based operations to speed up processing on modern CPUs. The project applies hardware-level parallelism to a decades-old algorithm, aiming to boost performance for large-scale sorting tasks.
After a researcher's resignation over AI extinction fears, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for external organizations to verify AI labs' safety practices and audit training pipelines, a proposal quickly backed by OpenAI, Google and others. Security experts counter that labs should first tighten fundamental internet security measures—access logs, permissions, and control systems—rather than relying on outside auditors as the primary fix.
Amazon announced it is boosting the base hourly wage for its full-time U.S. operations employees, including warehouse workers, by $1 to $20 per hour. The change takes effect on September 27. The company also said it is expanding employee discounts alongside the pay bump.
Anthropic is merging its standalone Claude Cowork agent into the regular Claude chat interface, creating one unified product that automatically routes tasks without users choosing a mode. The rollout, starting with Pro and Max subscribers over coming weeks, also introduces new beta tools called Claude Docs, Slides and Design that let users create and export documents and presentations as PowerPoint or PDF files.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has proposed placing outside safety evaluators inside frontier AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, giving them access similar to internal risk teams and the ability to publish findings with limited redactions. He compared the idea to embedded bank examiners, but banking law expert Julie Andersen Hill says the analogy breaks down because these evaluators would have no authority to halt operations, unlike government bank supervisors who can restrict growth or shut institutions down.
Axios CEO Jim VandeHei argues that AI tools are currently generating more choices and clutter rather than simplifying work. He proposes a three-step discipline—confront problems directly, delete unnecessary tasks, and amplify what truly matters—as a way to cut through the noise. He cites internal Axios practices, including a leadership meeting titled 'Let's Kill S***,' as an example of applying this approach.
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian told CNBC that the tech industry has done a 'tone deaf' job explaining AI to the public, allowing misinformation to spread instead of focusing on real risks. He said the conversation should move past dramatic 'Terminator' scenarios and toward practical concerns, stressing that public understanding is key to managing the technology responsibly.
Investors have approached OpenAI proposing a fresh funding round that could value the company at $1.2 trillion, though no formal talks have begun, according to people familiar with the matter. Some backers see the round partly as a mechanism for employees to sell shares, similar to the roughly $7 billion secondary sale OpenAI completed in August following its $122 billion raise at an $852 billion valuation in March.
Dave Baumgartner's Bluemont Group opened its 100th Dunkin' location this spring, 16 years after he signed his first franchise deal with no restaurant background. He says starting with 17 stores at once was a mistake and now advises new franchisees to begin with just one location to learn the business first.
Google has launched Google Home MCP, letting outside AI agents like Claude, Google Antigravity, Hermes, and Open Claw access and control devices in a user's Google Home ecosystem through the Model Context Protocol. The integration lets these agents view device event history, analyze camera footage across cameras, track usage patterns like laundry cycles or light usage, send voice updates through Google Home speakers, and build custom control dashboards. Gemini for Home remains the primary assistant for the Home app and Nest speakers, with MCP adding an extra layer of third-party access rather than replacing it.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang publicly dismissed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's proposal for antitrust exemptions that would let AI companies coordinate a slowdown in development, calling it unnecessary. OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar separately said she isn't concerned about pausing AI progress, arguing the intelligence already built is substantial enough to matter even if development stopped now.
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