Sanders and Bannon shared an AI stage as Google handed engineers Claude
Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon appeared at the same Washington conference on Tuesday to demand curbs on AI, while Google quietly opened Claude Opus 5 to every one of its engineers through Antigravity after a year of telling them to use Gemini.
Sanders and Bannon shared a stage to demand curbs on AI Senator Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon both appeared at Future of Life Institute’s all-day “Pro-Human Assembly” in Washington on Tuesday to push Congress to move faster on AI, with Sanders raising the prospect of AI surpassing human intelligence and escaping human control. The event was built around the group’s Pro-Human AI Declaration, and the two agreed the technology is dangerous without agreeing on what to do about it: Bannon wants executive action, Sanders blames Congress. Source
Google opened Claude Opus 5 to all of its engineers Dataconomy reported on Tuesday that Google has given every engineer at the company access to Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 through Antigravity, its internal build of the IDE, having previously restricted it to selected DeepMind teams and priority projects while directing everyone else to Gemini. A Google spokesperson said that “Gemini remains our primary and foundational model for internal development, with third-party models available on a quota to support specialized use cases”. Source
China’s new exit rules for chip engineers took effect on Tuesday State Council Decree No. 841 came into force on 15 September, letting Commerce and other departments stop a citizen leaving the country for breaching export-control or technology-trade rules in ways that “may endanger” industrial or technological security. Officials do not have to wait for actual damage and there is no fixed time limit on that category of ban, which reaches engineers and researchers holding chip, rare-earth and battery secrets. Source
Euclyd raised more than €200m to build inference chips The two-year-old Eindhoven company announced a Series A of more than €200m ($231m) on Tuesday, led by Samsung with Somerset Capital Partners, EQT’s Scaleup Europe Fund and Innovation Industries alongside, and Peter Wennink, ASML’s former chief executive, joining as non-executive chairman. Euclyd is building a combined chip and memory architecture aimed at running foundation models rather than training them. Source