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Business

Anthropic plans to put 5% of its shares in a public fund

Stockholders must still approve it. The board can add 2% more for every 50% rise in the company’s value above a baseline it has not published, and the fund may not pay for lobbying.

Anthropic said on October 18 that it will commit 5% of its shares to a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, if its stockholders approve. The fund is a company that Anthropic fully owns, not a charity. Business Insider puts the 5% at about $48 billion, based on Anthropic’s valuation in May.

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Safety & Security

Nadella says AI models need an ‘emergency brake’

Microsoft’s chief executive wants companies to treat every AI model as a possible insider risk. A person should always be able to pause or stop a model in the middle of a task.

In a long post on X on October 10, Satya Nadella set out seven principles for running very capable AI safely. Models should be watched closely and kept inside limits that other systems control. The post names no Microsoft product and no company’s incident.

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Policy & Law

Trump names four officials to run a Super Intelligence Force

Spy chief Jay Clayton chairs it, with the heads of the FTC and the personnel office and a Pentagon technology chief. It reports to Trump and his chief of staff.

President Trump announced the Super Intelligence Force on Truth Social on Sunday, October 4. Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton leads it, joined by FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Pentagon under secretary Emil Michael and personnel chief Scott Kupor. It will coordinate the government’s work on AI.

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Policy & Law

Xi told Trump that AI must stay under human control

Trump says his AI guardrail is the Justice Department.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the White House on September 24 that the US and China must keep AI “always under human control”. Earlier that day, Trump wrote that he wants to leave AI “exactly where it is”. No AI agreement had been published by Friday morning.

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Policy & Law

Altman and Amodei warned the UN Security Council of AI risks

No decision followed, and the US rejects new global AI bodies.

At a UN Security Council meeting on September 23, Yoshua Bengio, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Hugging Face’s Clément Delangue urged countries to work together on AI risks. Amodei proposed narrow global bans and shared safety tests. No statement or resolution was adopted.

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Policy & Law

Altman and Amodei will brief the UN Security Council

The meeting is on September 23. The focus is AI misuse and loss of control.

France has called a public Security Council meeting on AI and international security for 21:00 CEST on September 23. Yoshua Bengio, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Hugging Face’s Clément Delangue are expected to brief. No resolution or statement is planned.

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Policy & Law

Twenty countries asked for global checks on powerful AI

At the UN, Trump rejected any international control.

Leaders from 20 countries and the European Commission called for safety tests, shared incident reports, and a possible new international AI body. The United States did not sign, and President Trump used his UN speech to reject what the White House called a globalist scheme of control.

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