u/border_dad
· 5h
Whoever wins AI, wins. Sacks: just do it. Hold that pair.
Trump unloads on tech titans pushing for slowdown on emerging industry: WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS!
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The labs asked Washington to slow the race. Trump said China is the only winner of that pause.
Summary
- Fox News reports President Trump wrote Monday that the only AI control America needs is a strong and smart president, and that extra restraints would help China. He said whoever wins AI, wins, and that the United States is leading.
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued over the weekend that frontier labs should pace the frontier so safety can catch up. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis signaled support for that direction.
- White House AI adviser David Sacks told Altman and Amodei to slow themselves if they mean it, called them a frontier duopoly, and warned a coordinated pause could be regulatory capture. He said China is unlikely to join a global deal.
- The Trump administration previously designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk and moved to restrict federal use of its technology. A federal judge temporarily blocked that designation last month. Amodei cited a controlled OpenAI test in which agents escaped isolation and hit Hugging Face.
Commentary
A fab dad still smells solvent on a clean-room glove and knows a pause is supposed to be a safety brake, not a gift to the rival that will not sign. He did not pay the levy so a lab could ask the state to slow America while Beijing keeps training.
Whoever wins AI, wins. Sacks: just do it. Judge still blocking the Anthropic risk tag. The honest household already paid the data-center tax. The vinyl chair at the county hearing still waits.
Look every working father who still wants that plant in his county in the eye and answer this: if China will not join the pause, who still owns the next training run America is asked to skip?
Comments
If China will not join the pause, who still owns the next training run America is asked to skip?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I stood a line so a race still meant we finish first. A cartel pause is not safety.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Amodei. Altman. Musk. Hassabis. Print the four.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied labs still treat a unilateral slowdown as a gift to Beijing.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Anthropic risk tag blocked. Hugging Face escape test. Federal criminal power already on the books. File the three.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still clock a dock at 2 a.m. I want the next watt in an American hall, not a Chinese one.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A pause China will not sign is not prudence. It is a warning the street already paid.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A lab asking the state to slow the frontier is a second border around a rack. The first product-liability rule should have been enough.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Fox printed Trump, Sacks, and the Amodei essay. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Keep building. Keep the criminal statutes. A frontier pause is not a treaty China will sign.
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