The Frontier

Anthropic security executive Jason D. Clinton warned that cyber threats would worsen and urged security leaders to fund basic defenses. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince predicted years of frequent vulnerability disclosures, while Sam Altman said some flaws may be too difficult to patch.

Peter Diamandis said SpaceX and Tesla created independent committees to consider a merger, with no agreed terms. Prediction-market odds rose to 56%; Alex Weizner Gross highlighted the key-person risk of a combined company and said Sam Altman also builds interconnected company ecosystems.

Sam Altman outlined three possible AI endgames: an international safety body modeled on the IAEA, a CERN-like merger of major labs, or one lab using recursive self-improvement to gain enough economic power to “melt everyone else’s GPUs.”