Claude builds 26% of itself — and it's accelerating
Anthropic publishes the first hard numbers on recursive self-improvement — and the safety spending looks thin.
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Anthropic publishes the first hard numbers on recursive self-improvement — and the safety spending looks thin.
NVIDIA, Google and Emerald AI launch AEMA, a 18-member coalition to make AI data centers flexible power users and unlock up to 100GW of grid capacity.
OpenAI surpasses Anthropic in developer spending for the first time since 2024, as GPT-6 Sol appears in secret testing — six times faster than Astra.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen officially endorsed pacing frontier AI development in her State of the Union address, inviting leading labs to discuss slowing self-improving models.
Three frontier AI labs have been negotiating safety standards privately for weeks, behind the public slowdown campaign.
Investors initiate talks for a round that would value OpenAI at $1.2T, up 41% from March.
Anthropic posts back-to-back profitable quarters, selects Nasdaq, and targets a $2 trillion October IPO — the first frontier AI lab to go public while making money.
Microsoft's Nadella joined the AI slowdown movement while White House advisor Sacks accused labs of regulatory capture. Three labs have held secret safety-body talks since July.