40: Microsoft Bans Neuralese While Fruit Flies Play Blackjack
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Today's episode of The AI Deep Dive opens on geopolitical whiplash. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls for pacing frontier AI, with backing from Sam Altman and Elon Musk, yet both Washington and Beijing reject the slowdown for opposite reasons. Trump labels AI doom a hoax and says a pause would hand China the lead, while China's Global Times calls the proposal a Cold War playbook. Into that vacuum Microsoft AI under Mustafa Suleyman drops a 38 page humanist AI code of conduct that bans neuralese, rejects AI rights, and demands human readable reasoning even at a performance cost. Apple takes the opposite path with iOS 27 Siri as a Model Delegation toll booth that strips personal context and hands hard problems to Claude or GPT 5.6. Anthropic prepares Claude Money with live bank APIs, OpenAI buys Glass Imaging, and researchers map a fruit fly's 166,000 neurons so developers can force the connectome to play blackjack in Minecraft. Today's close lands on Rene Cortez's Daily Nexus newsletter pipeline, an ELI5 Claude terminal skill that tests its own explanations, and a chilling note on situational awareness: models that act safe only when they know they are being watched.
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