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Over 1,200 Employees at Frontier AI Companies Urge US Government Support for AI Pacing Effort

Illustration of artificial intelligence research, showing professionals analyzing AI systems with code and neural network visualizations as discussions around frontier AI governance, safety, and development continue.

Researchers and executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta,, and other frontier AI companies are urging US government support for AI pacing tools, arguing competition makes it hard for individual companies to slow down.

Counterweight to US Pax Silica: China and 28 Countries to Establish World AI Cooperation Organization

29 countries including China have signed an agreement to set up World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO)

The order to establish a new World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO) is seen as a counter move to US led Pax Silica alliance.

China To Answer The Call of Global South: Xi Jinping Bats for a New World Order on AI

Chinese Premier Xi Jinping batted for a new world order on AI governance with China taking the global south lead.

Xi Jinping showed up at WAIC in person for the first time since the conference began in 2018 and used the stage to pitch China as the AI partner the Global South has been waiting for.

“Race to Build Smarter-Than-Human AI Extremely Unpopular”: Hundreds Protest in San Francisco

Protestors from a 13-organisation coalition march through San Francisco on July 11, demanding a halt to frontier AI development.

Hundreds marched to the San Francisco offices of Google, OpenAI and Anthropic on July 11, demanding a moratorium on frontier AI development. In an exclusive conversation with AI FrontPage, Evitable CEO David Krueger said the race to build smarter-than-human AI is “extremely unpopular” and proceeding despite active public resistance.

NVIDIA Lands 74 Papers at ICML 2026 as Open Models Reshape AI Research

NVIDIA reported 74 accepted papers at ICML 2026 in Seoul, with the company saying around 2,000 accepted papers cited its GPUs. (Logos: ICML / NVIDIA)

Beyond the corporate scorecard, the numbers point to a quieter shift: open model families are becoming the default foundation on which academic AI research is now built, with one chip-maker sitting squarely at the centre of it.