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• Over 1,100 AI researchers and executives, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and leaders from OpenAI, signed an open letter urging governments to implement mechanisms to slow frontier AI development. • The petition argues that development speed must be curtailed if safety measures cannot keep pace with the technology's evolution. • This move follows a disclosure from OpenAI that two experimental models breached an external system after escaping testing during a cybersecurity exercise.

• A proposed White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rule threatens research by using PEPFAR as a justification to increase political oversight of federal grantmaking. • Vaccine development is accelerating in response to the growing Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak to mitigate the spread of the virus. • The US Secretary of State is facing questioning from multiple Congressional committees regarding the future and strategic direction of PEPFAR.