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PublishedSeptember 18, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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Automattic’s 33-Hour Coup, and can AI labs police themselves?
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A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on independent safety evaluators and coordination between AI labs in democratic countries, and it’s already
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