- Anthropic researchers report that small AI models may soon be able to run and self-replicate across cheap household devices such as smart ovens and TV boxes, spreading slowly but adapting to avoid detection.
- Meta announced new frontier-class models, which matters because the company has resisted the idea of pacing AI development and has played down catastrophic risk, making any slowdown deal among other labs harder to hold.
- Epic Games' CEO told staff to stop writing code by hand and to use AI for art assets, a shift that could normalize AI-made games and undercut current labeling practices on platforms like Steam.
- OpenAI fired an employee after finding a recording device hidden in a conference room and referred the matter to the FBI, with no sign so far that sensitive material was taken.
- The author argues the espionage case shows that slowing China alone will not prevent a dangerous race, and favors a verifiable international ban on further frontier development.
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