The Industry Picks a Side
More than thirty AI companies, from Nvidia and Microsoft to Meta and the Linux Foundation, signed a single letter defending open models, with Jensen Huang's first ever tweet as its public face. Their boldest move is to aim the safety argument back at the closed labs. And the absences, chiefly Anthropic, say as much as the signatures.
Read full story →Whose Openness?
Just as US industry claims "open" as an American inheritance, Xi Jinping is claiming the very same word in Shanghai, backed by a new China-led AI body and a 21-nation statement that both Washington and Beijing signed. A movement born against corporate control of code is now a banner carried on both sides of a widening divide.
Read full story →Voluntary on Paper
By August 1 the White House will formalise a "voluntary" review of frontier AI releases. But the past seven weeks already showed what voluntary means: Commerce suspended Anthropic's newest models globally, and the White House gated OpenAI's, all before any framework existed. The deadline does not create that power. It just names it.
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