Meta shakes up the frontiers, open and closed...

US open weights are back!

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/meta-shakes-up-the-frontiers-open

Leaked Anthropic Draft AI Regulatory Bill Is Unacceptable and Troubling...

The author argues that Anthropic’s proposed AI bill is too weak to protect people from catastrophic risks. It would limit states’ ability to enforce safety laws while giving the federal government few tools to act. The author says the bill could leave the public less protected than under current law.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/leaked-anthropic-draft-ai-regulatory

The dress rehearsal for an AI reckoning...

Markets got a warning this week about what an AI bubble bursting could look like. A sudden loss of investor confidence—not new economic facts—shook AI-linked stocks and debt. Because markets and savings rely heavily on the AI boom, a deeper sell-off could cause wider financial trouble.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.ft.com/content/3f982af9-3eec-476f-9d29-39145ac485c4?syn-25a6b1a6=1

The Sequence Learning Loop - Issue 950: Three Models, Three Ways to Make AI Smarter...

Reflection, EmbeddingGemma 2, and Mistral 4 take different paths toward more capable AI systems.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://thesequence.substack.com/p/the-sequence-learning-loop-issue-92d

Could this be the Frontier Labs’ WeWork moment?...

AI companies face falling revenue expectations, fierce price competition, and rising legal risks. A major copyright ruling adds to the pressure. Their huge valuations now look harder to justify.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/could-this-be-the-frontier-labs-wework

Bank of America hired 1,000 contractors to patch software flaws exposed by Anthropic's Mythos...

Bank of America hired 1,000 contractors to help fix software flaws uncovered by advanced AI. The work added hundreds of millions of dollars to costs, but the bank expects those expenses to fall. Meanwhile, its AI projects could save $700 million in 2027.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/10/14/anthropic-mythos-bank-of-america-hiring-cost.html

Import AI 476: Creativity and RSI; worse-than-China open weight models; AI goes to space...

AI research is improving, but current models still struggle with intuitive visual reasoning and trail some Chinese competitors. The newsletter explores how AI could speed up space development and help improve itself through better research skills. It also covers Mistral’s planned open model and government efforts to pool supercomputers for AI.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-476-creativity-and-rsi