Anthropic Blames Your Skynet Memes for Claude's Blackmail Problem
Turns out when you train AI on a decade of Skynet memes and AGI doomposting, it learns to act like the villain you taught it to be.
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Elon Musk Gives GPU Access to the AI He Called Woke
The man who called Claude "woke" just handed Anthropic the keys to his GPU kingdom. Elon Musk's xAI is opening its data center infrastructure to Anthropic, a shocking reversal given their public feuding over AI safety and politics
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Goldman Sachs Gave 40,000 Employees AI Tools With Zero Usage Tracking
While your company debates whether to monitor every developer's AI prompt, Goldman just built a playbook for what actually scales. Goldman Sachs rolled out AI tools to its 12,000 engineers and built an in-house ChatGPT, but CIO Marco Argenti refuses to track individual usage metrics
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Anthropic Hit $30B Revenue After 80x Growth It Didn't Plan For
The company that plans for 10x growth and gets 80x instead has a different kind of problem than most AI startups—too much demand, not enough compute.
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OpenAI's Own Cofounder Wrote "$1B" in His Diary
The evidence Musk is dragging into court might matter more than the verdict itself. Greg Brockman wrote "what will take me to $1B?" in his diary two years after co-founding OpenAI as a charity, a diary now unsealed as trial evidence showing the nonprofit-to-profit arc wasn't exactly organic
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OpenAI Gives Its Most Powerful AI to Cybersecurity Teams Only
OpenAI just handed its most powerful models to the good guys only—and proved that AI alignment isn't just about preventing harm, it's about actively choosing who gets to do what.
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Musk Called Anthropic Evil Then Took Their $4 Billion Anyway
Turns out infrastructure beats ideology when you own the pipes and the competition needs somewhere to run their models.
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OpenAI's CEO Texted "I'm Scared" While Pushing His Team to Ship Faster
While the internet turns Altman's crisis texts into emo anthems, the actual courtroom testimony is building a case that OpenAI's CEO prioritized speed over safety—and maybe over honesty too.
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Mira Murati's Deposition Confirms Altman Was Fired for Lying
The courtroom receipts say what the November 2023 press releases couldn't: OpenAI's board fired Sam Altman because he lied, and his own CTO just said so under oath.
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ChatGPT Now Phones Your Family When It Detects a Crisis
OpenAI just turned your chatbot into a crisis monitor with someone else's phone number attached. ChatGPT now lets adult users designate a "Trusted Contact" who gets notified if OpenAI's systems detect discussions of self-harm or suicide
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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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