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Technology 12 Sep 2026

Y Combinator's Garry Tan urges U.S. open-weight labs to distill frontier models

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan urged U.S. regulators to allow domestic open-weight labs to distill American frontier models. He warned that concentrating AI power in one proprietary provider is the true doomer scenario.

News 24 Jul 2026

Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM and Two Dozen Organizations Urge US Policymakers to Protect Open-Weight AI Models

Two dozen companies and organizations have signed an open letter urging United States policymakers to protect open-weight artificial intelligence models. The letter carves out space for one technique that has become contentious in AI.

Technology 05 Aug 2026

Google's AI Brain Trust Departs to Launch Discovery Loop, Automating Scientific Discovery

First-day brief (Aug 5, 2026): four Google AI researchers leave to launch Discovery Loop. Superseded for depth by Brocker’s later PBC analysis — use this for the initial departure framing only.