Links tagged “policy”
16 links, newest first.
images.nvidia.com
An open letter arguing that leadership will be decided by how widely AI diffuses rather than by one frontier model, and that open weights are how that happens.
anthropic.com
States that Anthropic does not advocate banning open-weight models, and argues instead for chip export controls, distillation limits and mandatory safety testing.
politico.com
Almost 200 companies, among them Y Combinator and Proton, write to the administration against cutting off access to Chinese open-weight models.
siepr.stanford.edu
On jobs, Stanford's SIEPR brief went looking for the apocalypse. Since 2022, unemployment rose 0.77 points among the most AI-exposed workers, and 0.85 among the least. Developer postings are still growing faster than the rest of the market. New graduates are the real soft spot. The brief's opening foil is Amodei's forecast of 20 percent unemployment, which makes two appearances for him this week.
werd.io
Argues that open-weight Chinese models are closing on the proprietary American ones while gaining the wider adoption that follows from being open.
stephen.bochinski.dev
Rates Kimi K3 against Claude on quality and cost, and argues American policy has pushed the talent that builds such models elsewhere.
stratechery.com
Ben Thompson: the economic worry about Chinese models is overstated, while the security case argues for loosening restrictions rather than tightening them.
godotengine.org
Godot will no longer accept AI-written code - the opposite call, made by another large open source project. Read side by side, they are the story.
techcrunch.com
GPT-5.6 goes to selected partners rather than the public, reportedly at the administration's request.
desfontain.es
Noise infusion banned from Census Bureau statistical products: the differential privacy that protected census data is now forbidden, explained by an authority on the topic.
simonwillison.net
On silent safeguards that quietly degrade answers to frontier-AI questions rather than refusing them, and the walk-back that followed.
axios.com
Reports Anthropic moving quickly to repair relations with the administration.
anthropic.com
Access suspended under an export control directive citing national security concerns about a jailbreak method.
techcrunch.com
Meta calls the voluntary code overreach and says it will throttle European AI development.
cnbc.com
Joel Kaplan says Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI, in declining the voluntary code.
bitecode.dev
The EU can be shut down with a few keystrokes: Europe has become dangerously dependent on American technology infrastructure, from cloud services and SaaS platforms to operating systems and chips.
