The Brutalist Report

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• Satya Nadella says "we welcome" the "deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right", and announces a "Code of Conduct" for Microsoft's MAI models (Satya Nadella/@satyanadella) [54d]
• Sources: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have held working group meetings since July to discuss creating an industry-led standards body for AI (Leo Schwartz/The Information) [54d]
• Xi Jinping calls for a "consensus-based global AI governance framework" and says China will pioneer the establishment of a BRICS AI open-source community (Joanna Ossinger/CNBC) [54d]
• Dario Amodei says the "toughest dilemma" about his proposal to "pace the frontier" is what happens if China does not do the same (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) [54d]
• President Trump dismisses calls for an AI slowdown, saying "you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up" (Myles McCormick/Financial Times) [54d]
• Source: Anthropic has selected the Nasdaq for its potential IPO (Katie Roof/Business Insider) [54d]
• Speaker Johnson says Congress won't lead the charge on regulating AI safety and AI companies should take responsibility to ensure the safety of their products (Donica Phifer/Axios) [54d]
• iPhone Duo will usher foldables into the mainstream, just as iPhone did with smartphones; sources: iPhone game controllers will launch under the Beats brand (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [54d]
• Anthropic and OpenAI are already free to "pace the frontier" and should do so for business reasons, instead of first demanding a preferred regulatory framework (David Sacks/@davidsacks) [54d]