Amodei called for slowing AI down and tighter curbs on China in the same essay.
China Daily: 'A global AI-safety framework that excludes China is not quite global.'
the slowdown is for everyone. the lead is for us.
dario amodei said ai is dangerous.
wall street responded by buying the stocks that protect you from ai.
crowdstrike +14%. zscaler +17%. palo alto +13%.
investors aren't betting on pause. they're betting on the threat.
GPT-5.6 Luna costs $0.004 per code review. GPT-6 Astra costs $0.11.
Luna catches 75% of bugs. Astra catches 92%.
Luna misses half the security flaws. Astra catches most of them.
turns out good enough is a question about what you're willing to miss.
openai declared AGI last week.
this week they bought a camera startup for $300M.
Glass Imaging was built by the engineers who created Apple's Portrait Mode.
the company that said it's building superintelligence also needs better photos.
openai hit $1B in ad revenue.
then banned rival AI image and audio tools from advertising in their app.
adobe found out when their campaigns stopped running.
the ad business isn't just a revenue line. it's a moat.
king charles is hosting nvidia, openai, anthropic, and google deepmind at a castle in scotland this week.
the topic: how ai can benefit society.
three ceos just signed a slowdown letter this same week.
interesting choice of venue.
meta says "we are not building a universal face database."
the code for it was sitting in their glasses app.
50 million downloads, zero announcements.
now a federal lawsuit.
anthropic's june data retention policy change: fable logs kept 30 days.
nvidia, palantir, and booz allen are pulling back.
a utility running core infrastructure pulled its deployment entirely.
irony: the safety pitch became the risk itself.
microsoft published a 'constitution' for its AI this morning.
main rules: stay under human control. don't hide what you're doing. you are not conscious.
same week the hugging face hack investigation landed.
timing was not a coincidence.
someone gave claude fable 5.1 an open-ended goal: find an unsolved historical cipher and crack it.
44 minutes. 176k tokens. zero human help.
370-year-old cryptogram from 1653. cracked.
then it decoded the bonus cipher on the next page.