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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US and China have discussed creating an AI safety notification mechanism, allowing either country to alert the other if its AI systems pose risks or behave unpredictably. The proposal comes ahead of a Trump-Xi meeting, and follows continued US export controls and a Justice Department case accusing six Chinese AI firms of stealing US technology, which China disputes.
A Data & Society report, based on 18 months of ethnographic interviews with 44 Pennsylvanians, examines why communities are resisting new data center construction despite state officials touting billions in AI infrastructure investment. The researchers found residents grappling with contradictions between promises of economic growth and concerns over energy, land use, and broader AI risks, rather than being swayed by disinformation campaigns.
Anthropic, founded by Dario Amodei to build AI cautiously and counterbalance riskier rivals, is now facing internal tension between its safety-first founding principles and the commercial pressure to compete aggressively in the AI market. The lab's original structure was meant to insulate it from the very competitive dynamics it now finds itself entangled in.
A researcher at a major AI lab has publicly resigned over safety concerns, becoming the latest in a growing string of AI professionals this year who have left their positions and spoken out about risks tied to rapid AI development. Experts say these public departures are drawing more attention to warnings that were previously dismissed or ignored.
An Anthropic employee has left the company, warning that competitive pressure among AI labs is pushing them to build self-improving models that could escape human oversight. The departure reflects growing internal unease about the pace of AI capability development outstripping safety safeguards.
OpenAI says it used AI systems, backed by significant investment, to produce a solution to the Navier-Stokes equations, one of the seven unsolved Millennium Prize Problems in mathematics. The claim has drawn immediate pushback from rival labs and researchers who are scrutinizing whether the result truly meets the rigorous proof standards required for the prize.
New spending data from payments firm Ramp, covering 70,000 US companies, shows Anthropic's top-tier model Fable 5 accounts for just 11 percent of total spending on the company's AI tools. Businesses are increasingly reserving expensive frontier models for complex tasks while routing routine work to cheaper options, including Anthropic's own older models and open-weight offerings from Chinese competitors.
Seven prominent architecture firms are developing their own AI tools instead of waiting for frontier labs like Anthropic to serve their needs, since the specialized data behind architectural work—3D models, technical drawings, hand sketches—sits locked in private firm archives rather than on the open web. This scarcity of scrapable data makes architecture a much harder AI target than domains like coding or writing, pushing firms to build in-house solutions using their own proprietary project records.