Ep. 42 — A senator tells three CEOs to stop building, Meta answers with a 30-billion-parameter download, and Anthropic turns off the permission prompt

A senator tells three CEOs to stop building, Meta answers with a 30-billion-parameter download, and Anthropic turns off the permission prompt 00:48 — Senator Bernie Sanders sends a letter to Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Mark Zuckerberg telling them to pause AI development, and says that if they do not, the Senate will act 02:17 — Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight multimodal model under Apache 2.0 that runs on a single consumer GPU, alongside a 6,500-word Zuckerberg essay arguing against restricting access to superintelligence 03:47 — Anthropic turns Claude Code's Auto mode on by default on August 14 for Pro, Max and Team accounts, citing a test where auto mode caught 89% of harmful actions versus 13.6% for manual review 05:17 — Situational Awareness invests $400 million in chip startup Source Foundry after its assets under management fell from $20 billion to $10 billion 05:42 — OpenAI publishes a letter to Governor Greg Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas, six days after Abbott ordered a full review of data centers seeking grid connections 06:06 — MIT Technology Review profiles five startups betting against the transformer — sparse attention, power retention, liquid networks, text diffusion and state space models 06:30 — Discovered Materials raises a $9 million seed to run AI agents 24/7 hunting new materials for cooler chips Daily Prompt with Archer & Iris.