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Demis Hassabis proposes a FINRA-style body to regulate frontier AI 18 July 2026
Demis Hassabis published a manifesto on July 14 calling for an independent AI standards body modeled on FINRA. Hassabis runs Google DeepMind and shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold. Frontier labs would share models with the body up to 30 days before release, tested for cyber, bio, and deception risks. He told Axios he wants it US-led, industry-funded, and running before year-end. The body could later require models to pass before US deployment and even coordinate a slowdown across the labs. Hassabis says AGI is probably only a few years away. Nadella and Altman back the idea.
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model 18 July 2026
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16. It has 2.8 trillion parameters and is the largest open-weight model so far. On the blind-voted Frontend Code arena it is first at 1,679, ahead of Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol. On the broader Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index it scores 57, just behind Fable 5 at 60 and Sol at 59. It is on kimi.com, subscription and API at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output. The weights open on July 27.