Dario Amodei's pacing framework only slows US labs by as much as their lead over Chinese ones allows. Whether it binds on anyone's capex depends on a decision in Beijing. Beijing has now made it.
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Taiwan has received the first two of 66 F-16 Block 70 jets it ordered from the US in 2019 for $7.76 billion, after a six-week stop in Hawaii. The other 64 are due by the end of 2026, on a schedule that has already slipped.
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Tariffs imposed by one country move goods rather than shrink them, which is why the US Treasury spent the Asheville ministerial trying to turn a American cost into a shared one. The forum binds nobody.
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Chinese officials dismiss Amodei's proposed AI slowdown as fear-mongering
Anthropic's chief executive asked the industry to slow its most powerful models and said the pause needs China's cooperation. Beijing's foreign ministry called the idea fear-mongering three days before its own standards body warned about recursive self-improvement.
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Five months after the Beijing trip, the licensed H200s are still stuck at Chinese customs
Altman, Huang and Cook are expected at Trump's 24 September state dinner for Xi, the same three executives who were on the May Beijing trip. What that trip produced is the best guide available to what this one will.
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buildConfirmed7 publishers Neither Washington nor Beijing endorsed the proposal behind this month's frontier-lab consensus, which asks for evaluators inside labs, coordinated capability thresholds and international deals and ties how much anyone slows to how far ahead the US already is.
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Amodei asks Beijing to pace the frontier while Washington widens its lead
Dario Amodei made global pacing conditional on democracies keeping as large a lead as possible over China, and the officials and analysts who answered him in Beijing objected to the terms. Beijing rejected those terms in public.
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Trump and Xi refuse the AI speed limit ten days before they meet
OpenAI and Anthropic want Washington and Beijing to negotiate a pace for frontier AI development. Trump's answer arrived on Truth Social on Sept. 14, and China's Foreign Ministry called the U.S. debate fear-mongering the same day.
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Anthropic's CEO asked labs and governments to slow capability gains so safety work can catch up. Beijing called that fearmongering and a Cold War playbook. Trump said the US is ahead and whoever wins AI wins.
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