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Applied AI·September 18, 2026·1 min read

Dario Amodei and other AI leaders want to ‘Pace the Frontier’ but…how?

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The frontier labs are openly asking for independent evaluators and democratic-country coordination, which means external safety audits are on a glide path to becoming a de facto license to operate. If you’re building near the frontier, budget now for third-party evals and treat eval-readiness as a core engineering requirement, not PR.

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Seagate finds 'AI is increasing the value of data' but warns that 43% of businesses lack proper data storage infrastructure — 99% expect AI storage (and storage costs) to explode

If 99% of orgs expect AI storage costs to spike and 43% admit their infra is not ready, storage planning just moved from back-office to core AI strategy. Treat data lifecycle design—tiering, deletion, compression, and governance—as a first-class line item in any AI roadmap, not an afterthought for IT.

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Sources: the US "almost started a war" after an AI-assisted report hallucinated that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was carrying nuclear weapons components

An AI-assisted intelligence report nearly escalating a conflict over hallucinated nuclear components shows how brittle human review becomes once AI output is wrapped in official formatting and urgency. Any organization feeding AI into high-stakes decision channels needs explicit red-team, provenance, and override protocols before the model touches the workflow, not after an incident.

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