Sam Altman Takes the Stand. His Own Employees Testify Against Him.
The trial meant to expose OpenAI's nonprofit betrayal is instead becoming a deposition on whether the most powerful CEO in AI can actually manage a company.
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Andreessen Backs Unknown Swedish AI Startup Over Big Model Names
Marc Andreessen just wrote a check to a Swedish AI company most Americans have never heard of — and that tells you more about where the agent economy is heading than another big model announcement. Andreessen Horowitz led a $16 million funding round for Pit, a Swedish AI startup
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Trump's AI Czar Says Regulation Without Regulation and Everyone's Confused
The White House is trying to regulate AI without regulating AI, and the contradiction is louder than the policy.
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SpaceX Will Power the AI Lab Elon Musk Is Suing
Elon Musk's rocket company just agreed to power the AI lab he's actively suing, and the deal hints at compute infrastructure leaving Earth entirely. SpaceX is renting data center capacity to Anthropic, the AI startup racing to keep pace with OpenAI and others in compute-intensive model training
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AI Companies Keep Calling Autocomplete "Thinking" and It's Going to Backfire
The language we use to describe AI shapes how we understand what it can and should do—and right now, we're setting ourselves up for a confusion crisis.
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Scale AI Wins $500M Pentagon Contract Before Its First Profit
The defense industrial base just got a new prime contractor, and it's still learning to use forks. Scale AI landed a $500 million Pentagon contract to build data infrastructure and decision support systems for the DoD
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Anthropic Signs Compute Deal With Musk Days Before $40B IPO
The AI company racing to IPO just signed a compute deal with the man who's been calling AI safety research a scam for years. Anthropic signed a deal with SpaceX/xAI to use all compute capacity at the Colossus 1 data center, part of its infrastructure buildout ahead of a planned June IPO
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US Puts AI Choke Hold on Releases as Big Tech Plans $750B Build-Out
The White House is about to put a choke collar on AI model releases while Big Tech just announced they're spending three-quarters of a trillion dollars to build them faster.
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Trump White House Builds Federal Approval System for AI After Killing Biden's Safety Rules
The same administration that ripped up AI safety rules six months ago is now building a federal approval process for new models. The White House is drafting an executive order to create a vetting system for AI models before release, targeting cyber risks to business and government networks
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China's State Chip Fund Races to Bankroll DeepSeek's Next Billion
Beijing just told the world exactly how seriously it takes the AI sovereignty race—by writing a check with ten figures. China's state-backed chip investment fund is in talks to lead a funding round for DeepSeek valued at roughly $45 billion, per the Financial Times.
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OpenAI's $50B Blowup Started in a Haunted Mansion With Amber Heard
The messiest divorce in AI history started with whiskey poured by Amber Heard at a haunted mansion and ended with compute costs ballooning from $30 million to $50 billion.
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Trump's AI Hawks Now Writing the Rules They Mocked
The people who mocked AI safety regulations twelve months ago are now the ones writing them.
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Musk Wanted AGI Control Despite "Lack of Knowledge," OpenAI Cofounder Testifies
The courtroom testimony reveals less about who controls AI's future and more about why the people building it stopped listening to the richest man in the room.
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US Government Gets Pre-Release Access to Google and Microsoft AI Models
The frontier model release schedule just got a new gatekeeper, and it's not a safety board or a nonprofit watchdog.
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AI Law Firm Raises $9M in Four Days—Without a Single Human Lawyer
Y Combinator just proved that selling legal services is now a venture-scale software business. Moritz, an AI-powered law firm, raised $9 million in four days from investors including Reddit, OpenAI, and Dropbox founders, oversubscribing their $3M target before graduating from Y Combinator
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OpenAI Sues Musk Hours After He Joins Trump's AI Advisor Board
The frontier AI war just got messy—lawsuits flying, billion-dollar deals reshuffled, and China's scrappy underdog closing the gap faster than anyone expected.
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Google's AI Scientists Just Unionized Over Pentagon Work
The people building the world's most advanced AI just decided they need collective bargaining rights to control what it does. Google DeepMind workers in the UK voted to unionize, requesting joint representation by the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union
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White House Wants Veto Power Over Anthropic's Next AI Release
When the Pentagon and the White House can't agree on whether an AI model is safe to deploy, you're watching the invention of a new regulatory regime in real time.
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OpenAI President Stands to Pocket $30 Billion in For-Profit Conversion
The non-profit that built the world's most valuable AI model is becoming a for-profit, and its president just disclosed he'll personally pocket $30 billion in the process.
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Pentagon Tells Anthropic to Keep Its Safety Theater—Picks Rivals Who Actually Deploy
The Department of Defense just told the AI safety movement exactly what it thinks of red lines: find someone else to draw them.
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