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September 13, 2026, 11:45 AM

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Dario Amodei:
Dario Amodei proposes steps for pacing the frontier: embedded evaluators, coordination among democracies, and global coordination with authoritarian governments  —  I have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of human life.
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David Sacks / @davidsacks:
Anthropic and OpenAI are already free to “pace the frontier” and should do so for business reasons, instead of first demanding a preferred regulatory framework  —  Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed.  People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.
Sam Altman / @sama:
Sam Altman says he agrees with Amodei that “committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea”, and OpenAI will do the same  —  I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks. Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We'll have more to share soon.
Donica Phifer / Axios:
Speaker Johnson says Congress won't lead the charge on regulating AI safety and AI companies should take responsibility to ensure the safety of their products  —  House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday that Congress won't lead the charge on regulating AI safety.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Automattic confirms Matt Mullenweg has returned to his position as chairman and CEO “with full support of the board”, after an attempted ouster this week  —  After a tumultuous week, which saw WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ousted from his position as CEO of Automattic …
Jason Ma / Fortune:
Sam Altman confirms OpenAI won't go public this year saying “given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public”  —  Wall Street will have to wait for one of the most highly anticipated initial public offerings as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed it will not happen in 2026.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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