Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you20m ago India’s Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content30m ago T. Rowe Price Expands Claude Across Investment Teams and Developers49m ago Val Bercovici, Chief AI Officer at WEKA – Interview Series57m ago Ben Jennings on the Bayeux tapestry – cartoon57m ago The latest Avatar: Seven Havens trailer gives us a deeper dive into the characters and story59m ago Agentic AI Is The New Attack Surface: How Can SAP Application Security Teams Repel It?1h ago Pony.ai Starts Fully Driverless Robotaxi Passenger Tests in Zagreb1h ago Euno raises $23m to give enterprise AI agents the context they lack1h ago Nvidia’s Huang Touts Cybersecurity as Next Big Market for AI1h ago Google Pledges Over $15 Billion for AI Infrastructure in Finland1h ago Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs1h ago Red Hat AI 3.5 tackles the GPU queue that can stall AI pilots1h ago Moonshot Secretly Routed User Requests Through Claude, Anthropic Says1h ago

Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you20m ago India’s Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content30m ago T. Rowe Price Expands Claude Across Investment Teams and Developers49m ago Val Bercovici, Chief AI Officer at WEKA – Interview Series57m ago Ben Jennings on the Bayeux tapestry – cartoon57m ago The latest Avatar: Seven Havens trailer gives us a deeper dive into the characters and story59m ago Agentic AI Is The New Attack Surface: How Can SAP Application Security Teams Repel It?1h ago Pony.ai Starts Fully Driverless Robotaxi Passenger Tests in Zagreb1h ago Euno raises $23m to give enterprise AI agents the context they lack1h ago Nvidia’s Huang Touts Cybersecurity as Next Big Market for AI1h ago Google Pledges Over $15 Billion for AI Infrastructure in Finland1h ago Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs1h ago Red Hat AI 3.5 tackles the GPU queue that can stall AI pilots1h ago Moonshot Secretly Routed User Requests Through Claude, Anthropic Says1h ago

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Open letters about AI development

Simon Willison's WeblogPublished Aug 2, 2026

Microsoft led an open letter signed by 235 AI-related companies advocating for open-weight AI models to enhance safety and innovation, opposing government restrictions. Anthropic responded with concerns about risks from authoritarian misuse and called for limits on large-scale distillation. A separate letter, Pacing the Frontier, gathered support from over 1,300 AI company employees.

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