Pacing the Frontier, School AI Rules, and DeepSeek's Bargain Multimodal Model
About this episode
Amodei calls for slowing AI development and Altman and Musk agree, Microsoft and teachers unions sign binding AI rules for schools, DeepSeek V4.1-Flash launches with frontier benchmarks and sub-cent pricing
Chapters
Sources & Citations
Dario Amodei, "We Must Pace the Frontier" (personal essay)
darioamodei.com
The Guardian — "OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back calls to put brakes on 'reckless' AI development"
www.theguardian.com
CNBC — "Anthropic's Amodei proposes plan to slow the pace of advancing AI capabilities"
www.cnbc.com
New York Times — "What Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Argued in His Call for AI Slowdown"
www.nytimes.com
AFT, UFT and Microsoft Announce 'National AI Safety & Privacy Standard' for Schools | Microsoft News
news.microsoft.com
AFT, UFT and Microsoft Announce 'National AI Safety & Privacy Standard' for Schools | American Federation of Teachers
www.aft.org
Teachers union reaches AI privacy deal with Microsoft | POLITICO
www.politico.com
Microsoft, teachers unions strike AI privacy deal for schools | ABC7 New York
abc7ny.com
DeepSeek Official Announcement
www.deepseek.com
DeepSeek API Changelog
api-docs.deepseek.com
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Launches with Multimodal Capabilities – Emergent
emergent.sh
DeepSeek's New Architecture Slashes Agentic Costs by 80% – Yahoo Finance / Forkast
forkast.news