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The AI safety debate took a sharp turn this week when Jacob Coxon, a twenty-seven-year-old researcher, resigned from Anthropic, publicly warning that both Anthropic and OpenAI are building technology that could pose an existential threat to humanity. Other researchers have echoed that concern, and the conversation is no longer on the fringe.
That alarm is getting louder as major AI lab leaders spent the weekend drafting what they are calling a plan to pace the frontier, a framework critics at The Register are calling something far less noble — an attempt to shape regulation in their own favor, limit liability, and lock in their dominance before governments can respond meaningfully.
Meanwhile, a quieter story in the physical world: Sony has pushed back against reports that disc manufacturing is all but finished. The company confirmed its last remaining plant will reduce output by just ten percent, not ninety as widely reported. Still, Sony has made clear it plans to stop producing new physical games entirely by two thousand twenty-eight, so the writing remains on the wall for collectors and traditionalists alike.
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