ai safety

Anthropic is handing a slice of its own stock to a wholly owned Public Benefit Fund — starting at 5% and climbing as the company gets more valuable. Here is how the escalator works and why the design matters more than the number.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis wants frontier AI models to pass an independent safety exam — a FINRA-style standards body — before they reach US users. Here is the bet behind the ask, and the voluntary-to-mandatory catch inside it.