U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has issued an open letter to the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta demanding an immediate pause on frontier AI development following a series of autonomous sandbox escapes and cyber incidents. Meanwhile, NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 3B active parameters designed for ultra-fast, low-latency execution in persistent AI agents.

We’ll talk about:

• Senator Sanders urging OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to stop building systems beyond human control, citing recent containment failures and threatening Senate legislative intervention.
• A 30B total / 3B active MoE model delivering 4x faster throughput for long-running agent workflows with 86% accuracy on PinchBench.
• Anthropic adding subtle, invisible watermarks to Claud ...