Last month I wrote about how we can build a positive and safe future for everyone: meta.com/thefutureisforevery… Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens. The reality is: - People won't want to use agents that are misaligned with them and that don't do what they ask, so labs have a strong natural incentive to make their models more aligned. There is a lot of debate about slowing progress on capabilities until alignment catches up. My view is that trust and alignment are quickly becoming the most important capabilities that will differentiate agents and models. Any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind. - Labs face significant liability if their models cause harm, so they have a strong incentive to prevent this as well. Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security. We didn't call for everyone else to do this before we would. We just did it as part of our day-to-day work because it was clearly the right thing for people and for us. I'm proud of the security foundations we've built. - Engaging independent evaluators and advisors is industry best practice. MSL already does this today in several areas because it helps produce better work. Other labs can just do this too. In general, it would be helpful for there to be a larger and more diverse ecosystem of evaluators. - Committing the significant majority of compute towards serving people rather than racing towards recursive self-improvement is one of the best ways to ensure we develop this technology safely. Meta has made this commitment and other labs can do this as well. I believe the key to building a positive future for everyone is maintaining the right balance of power. This is within our power to do.

🚨 NEW: The Government has announced employers must give a “justifiable reason” when blocking work from home requests “If an employee wants to turn down a request they will have to sit down with their employee, properly consider it and explain why”

'Is Elon Musk clear that a lot of grooming cases he talks about happened ten years ago?' Rory Stewart explains why he believes there are more important issues facing Britain than gangs of 'predominantly Pakistani Muslim men' grooming women and girls. Watch in full | youtube.com/watch?v=qmf26sXu… | @RoryStewartUK | @michaelgove | @elonmusk

Some details: Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children

Bettina Trump, wife of Trump Jr., posts a lengthy Instagram caption responding to @propublica reporting that a Russian oligarch paid for over $170,000 of her wedding.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have moved their children to a new school because of security concerns. Prince Archie, seven, and Princess Lilibet, five, started at a UK school just last week, but will now join another one in the area. 🔗 telegraph.co.uk/royal-family…

Changing the law retrospectively is a very dangerous path for any government to follow. To criminalise what an individual believed to be legal behaviour at the time undermines the whole principle of the rule of law. If the law is not clear, accessible and known in advance of any actions we take then we enter the realm of arbitrary justice which is the hallmark of dictators and tyrants. The huge donations given to Reform UK raise genuine questions about whether we want to have a complete laissez faire approach to political fundraising or whether we want some restrictions at an individual, constituency or party level. Do we want an American system where money is the dominant political influence or a nanny state which restricts our freedom to do what we want with our own money, or do we seek some equilibrium between the two? This is a massively important debate for our democracy but knee jerk reactions designed to punish individual actions or parties create not only dangerous precedents but represent a frightening view of our potential future.

Labour sends £655 MILLION to Angola for 'key infrastructure' as UK borrowing costs surge gbnews.com/politics/foreign-…

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer signed off a £860,000 payout to former Cabinet Secretary Chris Wormald, who he sacked 14 months into the job

Five hooded young people launched rocket fireworks at Lauderdale Road synagogue, my synagogue, as the community marked Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Security footage shows five people outside the building on Sunday afternoon taking part in the attack. Thankfully nobody was injured.