6 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.

Microsoft backs Amodei pacing call, sets AI conduct rules

Satya Nadella said Microsoft welcomes 'deliberate pacing' on AI alignment and will publish a Code of Conduct for its MAI models on September 14, 2026.

Anthropic says it's profitable again on $11.5B quarter

Anthropic told shareholders it hit a second straight quarter of positive adjusted operating income on $11.5B in Q2 2026 revenue, per the Financial Times, but the math skips training costs and Amazon's revenue share.

Sacks calls Amodei's slowdown antitrust ask a cartel bid

David Sacks, Trump's former AI czar, says Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI can slow down on their own but shouldn't get an antitrust shield to coordinate it.

Johnson refuses emergency AI session over China race

House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected an emergency AI session on Sunday, saying it would cede the lead to China, and proposed a White House meeting of seven or eight lab leaders instead.

This week in tokens: everyone asked for a referee, nobody slowed down

Amodei asked labs to pace themselves and let outside evaluators in, Altman matched him and delayed OpenAI's IPO, Hugging Face asked to join, and Nvidia weighed a $10B stake in Anthropic's own IPO.

Mecka AI nears $500M valuation for robot training data

Sequoia is leading a new round valuing the two-year-old startup at roughly $500M, up from $60M raised three months ago, betting on human motion data as the bottleneck for humanoid robots.

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