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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.
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.
OpenAI is gradually enabling GPT-6 Astra for Pro, Business and Enterprise users, who can find it labeled as GPT-6 Pro in the model picker rather than under the Astra name. Plus subscribers get access through the Work mode in web, mobile or desktop apps, while Codex users need CLI version 0.153.0 or later. Availability varies by platform, and Enterprise access also depends on workspace permissions.
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.
Reports indicate several companies adopting AI tools are underwhelmed by results, even as the UK leans on the sector for economic growth and touts gains in the NHS and broader economy. Economists say the current wave of AI firms is unlikely to all survive, predicting a shakeout that could leave a few dominant players controlling the market. OpenAI's decision to pause its path toward a stock market listing is being read either as a safety-conscious move or as a sign it fears weak investor returns.
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.
Barack Obama told House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries at a Democratic fundraiser that Democrats need a defined plan on artificial intelligence, urging the party to launch a public conversation on the technology if they retake the House majority. He warned that AI's rapid development in private hands could be dangerous without oversight, but said it could also bring major benefits like accelerating drug discovery.
During a visit to Ireland, President Trump rejected recent warnings from AI experts and industry leaders about the risks of rapid AI development, insisting fears raised by 'negative forces' were overblown. His comments came after a former Anthropic researcher warned of existential risk and after Anthropic's CEO, backed by Elon Musk and Sam Altman, called for a coordinated slowdown in AI development.