Author: Aaron Harme

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Aaron Harme

The Wednesday AI brief: Sanders moves to ban ASI, Anthropic’s cheaper Opus meets OpenAI’s half-price Sol, and AWS clears NATO Restricted

Sanders and Casar unveil a bill to ban artificial superintelligence and create a Department of AI. Tuesday’s shipping calendar answered Amodei’s pace-the-frontier essay with a cheaper Opus and a same-afternoon OpenAI Sol/Luna cut. AWS is first cloud cleared for NATO Restricted alliance-wide, while SoftBank’s OpenAI junk-bond book draws more than $20 billion of preliminary demand as yields climb.

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The Tuesday AI brief: Newsom bills the halls, DeepSeek joins Altman at the UN, and Alibaba sketches a bigger Qwen

California signed seven bills so AI data centers pay for grid and water upgrades. OpenAI asked Washington to lead incident standards days before Altman briefs the Security Council, and Reuters sources say DeepSeek was invited into the same room. In Hangzhou, Alibaba stacked a bigger Qwen, a homemade chip, and a 20-gigawatt cloud path.

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