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▶ 99:10 · $ANTHROPIC · Anthropic withholds frontier model from UK AI Security Institute; model weights becoming national security assets
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Peter H. Diamandis

Three Lab Warnings in Five Days, Researcher Flags “Gambling with Our Lives,” and Labs Race

2026-09-11 · 22 company · 61 thematic
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dave blundin

Dave Blundin (DB2) is Peter Diamandis' longtime friend and MIT roommate, partner at Link Ventures, and described as a guru on exponential investing. He focuses on moonshot-stage companies in AI, robotics, and space.

peter diamandis

Peter Diamandis hosts the Moonshots podcast with a panel of 'mates.' He founded XPRIZE and Singularity University, sits on boards of Trust & Will and Vesmark, and runs the Future Vision XPRIZE for positive AI futures. He frames discussions around the 'singularity economy' and exponential technologies.

alex wezner

Co-founder of PSI, AI physics lab, raised seed round led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures.

immad akhund

Immad Akhund is an entrepreneur and author of 'The Last Economy', deriving economics from generative AI math. He leads research on quantization, edge deployment, and AI forecasting, and runs an AI startup.

alex gross

AI researcher and entrepreneur. Wrote 'Datasets over Algorithms' essay. Deep technical expertise in model architectures, compression, and AI scaling laws. Predicts math/science 'cooked' by AI. Advises multiple AI startups.

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“Anthropic declined to give its latest frontier model to Britain's AI security institute for pre-release testing. First time any major model has been withheld from that agency... the labs can't ship them abroad even to our allies.”
—peter diamandis
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