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Nintendo's latest sale is 'made possible' by the tariff refunds it's hoarding31m ago Meta Announces Muse AI Agent for Personal Tasks and Organization32m ago Instagram now lets you add tagged photos to your profile grid32m ago AI agents are flooding public services with new requests38m ago Apple’s first foldable is the iPhone Duo, and it costs $1,99938m ago An Anthropic researcher just quit, saying OpenAI and Anthropic are 'gambling with our lives'40m ago Anthropic Is Building a Huge Surveillance System to Spy on Anti-AI Activists and Predict Their Activities49m ago Antioch raises $32m to test robots in simulation before they touch hardware56m ago OpenAI’s Bubeck denies trying to cut Anthropic mathematician from credit1h ago 10 of the scariest AI villains in movie history1h ago Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal1h ago Agent Security Is Not AI Governance: Why Conflating The Two Is A Risk Enterprises Can't Afford1h ago Positron Valued at $5 Billion in New Funding as Demand for AI Chips Surges1h ago 7 Steps to Become a Forward Deployed Engineer in 20262h ago

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Sam Altman renews his ‘democratic AI’ pitch as Anthropic holds a harder line

The Next WebPublished Jul 27, 2026

Sam Altman advocates for a 'democratic AI' approach emphasizing openness, scale, and allied cooperation to counter authoritarian AI use. In contrast, Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei supports stricter hardware export controls to limit adversaries' AI capabilities. Their differing strategies highlight tensions in US AI policy amid concerns over global AI power dynamics.

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