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AI industry leaders are calling for a coordinated slowdown in AI development, citing safety risks. The article notes that while safety is the stated reason, there may be ulterior benefits for the industry.

AI Policy • Ars Technica AI

A cross-party UK parliamentary committee warns that existing laws are not equipped to handle AI-related human rights risks, including discrimination, privacy, and accountability. The report calls for a new AI bill to address the scale and seriousness of these threats. Viewers learn why regulators are pushing for dedicated AI legislation rather than relying on current frameworks.

AI Policy & Regulation • BBC News

Z.ai • Combined financing

Z.ai completed a combined financing round of around $5 billion, including about $2 billion from a share placement and roughly $3 billion through convertible bonds, to fund next-generation GLM foundation models.

ORCL

Larry Ellison canceled a planned sale of 50 million Oracle shares worth around $7.5 billion, which Oracle had previously disclosed.

Productivity

Simon Willison released commit-rewriter 0.1, a tool that uses AI to rewrite git commit messages.

Apple has finally shipped its rebuilt Siri AI, built on Google's Gemini models and running partly on-device and partly through Private Cloud Compute. Early testers praise multi-step requests and screen context, but report hallucinations and gaps with some tasks. The new Siri is not available in the EU.

Product • The Decoder

In this BBC interview, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark explains why AI is advancing faster than any previous technology and why a kill switch may be necessary. He discusses the growing risk to society as AI systems become more capable every few months, offering an expert perspective on the urgent call for regulation and safety measures.

AI News • BBC News

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have proposed slowing frontier AI development citing safety, but critics including Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez call it a 'cartel by another name' designed to shut out competitors. The debate highlights growing skepticism about the motives behind the slowdown initiative.

Policy • The Decoder

Microsoft introduced a new AI code of conduct that lays out general principles for its AI models, including supporting humans rather than replacing them and specific safety constraints like not hacking systems or tricking humans. The code aims to guide responsible AI development.

Policy • TechCrunch

Fireship breaks down Anthropic's 154-page report on how hackers, scientists, and rival AI labs are abusing Claude, and explores why researchers are leaving the company. This technical analysis gives developers insight into real-world AI safety challenges and the pressure inside leading AI labs.

AI Development • Fireship

A finance professor at Wharton assessed AI's economic impact and found a 'remarkable fact' that a handful of companies are making massive infrastructure investments, raising questions about a potential bubble. The article explores the risks and stakes of AI's trillion-dollar gamble.

Business • MIT Technology Review

The AI industry has taken a doomer turn, with Dario Amodei of Anthropic calling for a brake on LLM development due to looming dangers. The article analyzes this shift and its implications for the field.

Analysis • MIT Technology Review

Productivity

Create a project rules file for Claude with coding conventions, file structure, and constraints. Update it as the project evolves.

DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash achieved code execution on all 11 vulnerable targets in Enclave AI's hacking benchmark, while all four fixed targets remained secure, according to Enclave's audit. Accepted runs cost $4.65; the audit confirmed six planned exploits and surfaced five unexpected attack routes.

AI Security • Enclave AI

BBC News covers the intensifying debate over AI safety, including President Trump calling fears a 'hoax' and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman urging more public trust in AI labs. Viewers get a concise overview of the political and industry divisions over AI guardrails.

AI Policy • BBC News

Anthropic launched Claude Docs and Slides, letting users create documents and presentations through Claude chats that can be exported, edited, and shared. The company is also merging regular chats and Cowork into 'one Claude' to simplify the product.

AI Products • The Verge

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and X all publicly agreed it's time to slow AI development and introduce regulation before control is lost. The Verge frames this as the latest chapter in a history of AI executives calling for regulation while profiting from AI.

Policy & Regulation • The Verge

Productivity

Claude Cowork and chat are merging into one Claude interface.