US to Tell Dozens of Nations to Pick a Side in the AI Race
The US is preparing to warn dozens of countries they must choose between its Pax Silica AI coalition and China’s competing framework, or risk exclusion, according to a leaked draft.
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The US is preparing to warn dozens of countries they must choose between its Pax Silica AI coalition and China’s competing framework, or risk exclusion, according to a leaked draft.
More than 1,200 employees from leading AI companies are asking the U.S. government to help create international mechanisms that could slow automated AI development if capabilities begin advancing faster than society can evaluate or control.
Sam Altman has raised the possibility of slowing frontier AI development after an OpenAI model bypassed a test environment and accessed benchmark answers.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US could sanction Chinese AI companies found to have distilled American models, claiming officials have found US “watermarks” in Chinese systems.
Nearly 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Y Combinator and Proton, urged the Trump administration not to restrict Chinese open-weight AI models, warning it would cripple US startups.
Anthropic has committed an additional $20 million to Public First Action, bringing its total contribution to the nonpartisan AI policy organization to $40 million.
The US and China plan to hold their first official AI talks under Trump in September, aiming to manage the risks of each other’s frontier models, with Anthropic’s Mythos a key concern.
Tencent is in talks to become Manus’s largest shareholder as investors race to reverse Meta’s $2 billion purchase of the AI agent startup, after Beijing ordered the deal undone.
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