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2907, 2026
Pacing the Frontier: AI Insiders Just Asked Washington for a Brake Pedal. Beijing Is Building the Accelerator.

|29 Jul 2026|News|

Here is a coordination problem. You run one of roughly six organizations on earth capable of training a genuinely frontier AI model. You believe, on the basis of internal data nobody outside your building has seen, that your technology is approaching a threshold that is hard to walk back once crossed. You also believe that if you stop, the other five will not, and neither will Hangzhou or Beijing, and the dangerous thing gets built anyway, only now by people who worried about it less than you did.

2707, 2026
What AI Model Should I Use? The 2026 Guide to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok

|27 Jul 2026|News|

Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5 on July 24 and priced it at half of its own flagship. OpenAI put the full GPT-5.6 family into ChatGPT on July 9 after a government-gated preview. Google, meanwhile, shipped three cheap Flash models on July 21 and still has not shipped the flagship it promised in May. Three weeks of releases have produced one clear answer to the question everyone is typing into search bars: the best model for you is almost certainly not the most expensive one, and picking it now means choosing a tier and an effort level, not a brand.