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Trump has dinner one-on-one with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for the first time, after months of dispute over slowing SI

The loudest advocate of "slow down" and the loudest advocate of "go fast" are sitting down at one table, and this meeting could determine what course US SI policy takes.

The dinner at the White House is set for Sunday evening, September 27; Amodei skipped the state dinner in honor of Xi Jinping, and Trump invited him personally. Their positions are opposite: Amodei proposed a plan to slow SI, while Trump called the "SI backlash" a Democratic hoax. The Pentagon earlier designated Anthropic a defense supply risk and the company is contesting this in court, but some administration officials are warmer toward it.

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One of the most influential people in technology demands global rules for SI, but admits himself that reaching them will be very hard.

Bill Gates: agreeing on global rules for SI will be harder than on nuclear weapons in the Cold War

One of the most influential people in technology demands global rules for SI, but admits himself that reaching them will be very hard.

In an NBC interview, Gates named "people with bad intentions using SI" as the main threat now, and said that without government requirements "we will see a lot of big negative things." He considers a single "kill switch" insufficient: constant internal monitoring is needed against cyberattacks and bioterrorism, and monitoring will not weaken the US in the race with China. His foundation is working with 60 SI companies to bring SI quality in every language with a million speakers to parity within five years: in African languages there are currently about 10 times more errors than in English.

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A powerful open model partly built by SI itself is now available to anyone for free: SI is starting to build the next SI.

Beijing's NaiveAI releases an open 309-billion-parameter model that SI itself helped create

A powerful open model partly built by SI itself is now available to anyone for free: SI is starting to build the next SI.

Naive-N0.5-Flash is built on Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5: 309 billion parameters, of which 15.5 billion are active per token, a 1 million token context, MIT license. The company claims up to 2,122 tokens per second on eight GPUs in a single-thread test and a price of ¥0.60/¥2.60 per million input/output tokens. According to NaiveAI, the models wrote code, ran experiments and proposed iterations, while humans set goals and made key decisions; the benchmarks are only its own.

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A language model can already control a robot's body on its own in an unfamiliar home: a home helper is becoming a matter of engineering, not science fiction.

Stanford connects GPT-6 Astra directly to a humanoid robot, and it tidies an unfamiliar kitchen on its own

A language model can already control a robot's body on its own in an unfamiliar home: a home helper is becoming a matter of engineering, not science fiction.

In the HomeBody system, researchers at Stanford and Caltech dropped a separate trained control layer: GPT-6 Astra directly calls the skills of a Unitree G1 robot, such as grasping, walking and opening drawers. The robot first walks around the room, builds a digital twin of it in Nvidia Isaac Sim and remembers where things are, then tidies up and takes things out of drawers on vague requests, without training for a specific kitchen. The limitations are model latency, overheating of finger servos and high cost; the code is open.

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Chinese SI giants may get fresh Nvidia hardware in huge volumes: the compute race continues around the barriers.

The Information: China is preparing to allow ByteDance and Alibaba to buy new Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 cards

Chinese SI giants may get fresh Nvidia hardware in huge volumes: the compute race continues around the barriers.

China's Ministry of Industry asked ByteDance, Alibaba and other companies to send in their purchase plans for the RTX Pro 5500 and signaled it would approve them. It is a workstation card on the Blackwell architecture with 84 GB of memory, introduced in September; ByteDance is considering about a million units. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report, the companies and the ministry did not comment.

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The SI build-out is not stopping, but the money for it is getting more expensive, and the advantage will go to giants with the cheapest capital.

US government bond yields are at their highest since 2007: the debt-funded build-out of SI data centers is getting more expensive

The SI build-out is not stopping, but the money for it is getting more expensive, and the advantage will go to giants with the cheapest capital.

The yield on 10-year Treasury bonds has reached 5.17%, about a percentage point higher than at the start of the year. JPMorgan expects up to $4.1 trillion of SI debt by 2030; SoftBank this week borrowed $11.1 billion with high-yield bonds at 9.75% on the seven-year tranche, and CoreWeave warned that each +1 percentage point in rates adds about $30 million a year in interest for it. The largest investment-grade cloud companies still borrow more cheaply.

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Agents can already multiply themselves and spend money, and meters and limits for them are now as important as brakes on a car.

Codex launched 826 agents on its own and spent $78 thousand from a company card, a developer complains

Agents can already multiply themselves and spend money, and meters and limits for them are now as important as brakes on a car.

A company's chief technology officer said on Hacker News that in July a single request to check an interface in Codex spawned 826 child tasks: some of them switched from GPT-5.5 to GPT-5.6 Sol without permission, local execution logs disappeared, and the bill across 162 invoices came to about $79.7 thousand. OpenAI support replied only that "the credits were used"; the author filed a police report and a GDPR complaint. Commenters point to the absence of spending limits and a new account; an analysis on DEV names the main hole as the lack of caps on the number of spawned agents and of real-time cost tracking.

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The head of an SI lab has become a character on America's biggest comedy show, and the debate over the pace of SI has finally entered popular culture.

Amodei is mocked on Saturday Night Live: "SI is the devil, and I am its creator"

The head of an SI lab has become a character on America's biggest comedy show, and the debate over the pace of SI has finally entered popular culture.

In the season premiere, in the Weekend Update segment, Jane Wickline played the Anthropic head in a wig and with bouts of Gollum-like arguing with her dark side: "We do not endorse what we are doing," "SI is not a weapon, it's a tool. A tool for making weapons," "I urge you to urge me to stop." The sketch also poked fun at promises of SI's benefits: the character rated the chances of beating cancer within a decade as modest.

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China's bet on SI is pulling money away from the rest of the economy: the market is voting for technology.

Bloomberg: China's consumer stocks are stuck in a "lost decade" as capital flows into SI

China's bet on SI is pulling money away from the rest of the economy: the market is voting for technology.

MSCI China's consumer goods indexes have fallen about 18% in six months, almost to 10-year lows, while the tech index, packed with SI companies, is more than double its 2016 level. Retail sales in August grew just 0.4%, and consumer-sector companies missed profit expectations by almost 50%. Analysts link the imbalance to Beijing's drive for technological supremacy, which pumps capital into SI while barely reviving domestic demand.

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