Everyone Calls It a Race. The People Who Study It Keep Saying That's the Wrong Word.
JP Morgan says the US still leads. A Chinese CEO told Elon Musk the gap is smaller than he thinks. And a Brookings panel argues "race" is the wrong frame entirely. The disagreement turns out to be about speed, and about whether the prize is the frontier or the factory floor.
Read full story →Meta Is the Last Major AI Lab That Hasn't Let Washington Look Inside Its Models
A New York Times report says Meta is the only major US lab that hasn't agreed to federal pre-release review of its models. The "voluntary" framework carries an edge: weeks ago, Washington ordered Anthropic to pull its top models, and the company switched them off worldwide.
Read full story →Washington Pulled the Best Models. Tokyo and Beijing Built Around the Hole.
Days after the US forced Anthropic to pull Fable 5 and Mythos worldwide, Japan's Sakana shipped Fugu, an orchestrator that matches the banned models by conducting the ones still available, and China's Zhipu hit the global top three with an open model it gives away for free.
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