- Trump created a Super Intelligence Force and named Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton as AI czar, with a charter that pairs responding to AI-enabled threats with avoiding overregulation.
- The task force includes a partner at venture firm Andreessen Horowitz and Pentagon official Emil Michael, and has 120 days to report on risks, opportunities and regulation.
- Sam Altman told Politico the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of AI, which the writer calls technically true but morally bankrupt and misleading about Anthropic.
- An upcoming U.S. open model from Nvidia-backed startup Reflection, built on about $150 million a month in compute bought from Elon Musk's SpaceXAI, will test whether that spending can match open Chinese models.
- A chart tracks how often ten major news homepages run headlines showing awareness of AI as an extinction-level risk, compared with climate change coverage.
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Accept some bad things
By Mitchell Howe
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