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18 piecesnineteen fourteen
Nobody wrote a new law for frontier models. The FTC reached for one from 1914 and used the labs' own paperwork.
desks in our offices
Amodei's pacing essay is read as a call to slow down. Its one real commitment is not about speed at all.
a regular briefing
Dario Amodei’s pacing essay has three steps. The third one asks democratic governments to coordinate with authoritarian ones on how fast …
run the full test suite
Only a quarter of the rules people write for agents are self-contained enough for anything to enforce.
rental cars and dispensaries
Nobody voted for a national identity database. We built one by accident, one rental counter at a time.
office of strategic capital
The state has started underwriting compute — not by building it, but by lending against it.
very large online search engine
Europe spent four years writing an AI law. The first rule that bound ChatGPT was written in 2022.
nobody wants to be first
Gates says every line has been crossed. The essay is more interesting as a description of a coordination failure than as a warning. Bill Gates …
Pax Silica
Thirty-five countries signed an AI opportunity statement and found out it was an exclusivity agreement.
batch zero
Four hundred seventy-four gigawatts. That’s what ERCOT is holding in interconnection requests, according to Governor Abbott’s August 3 …
Please Be Advised
Two of the world’s most influential regulatory bodies picked the same day — August 2, 2026 — to tell you the same thing: you have a right to …
Five Verbs and a Recall Button
China defined an AI agent in law with five verbs, and made it recallable like a faulty airbag.
companion fines
China fined 12 companies for how their AI made people feel. 4.2 million RMB — about $580,000 — in the first three weeks under China’s new …
ninety hours
A judge in New Mexico has decided how many hours a month a teenager should spend on Instagram.
you are talking to a machine
The label is an intervention, not a disclaimer.
voluntary has a half-life
C+. That’s the best in class. The Future of Life Institute released its 2026 AI Safety Index on July 7. Nine companies evaluated. Anthropic, …
the right to pull the plug
The kill-switch bill assumes you can reach the switch.
890 million and a redesign
€890 million sounds like a lot until you learn whose pocket it came from. Google made $350 billion in revenue last year. The European …