Anthropic Tells Governments Frontier AI Now Costs $517 Billion
Anthropic just told governments what it costs to keep pace with frontier AI, and the number is higher than most national R&D budgets.
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AI Founders Beg to Slow Down. Wall Street Dumps $80B in Hours.
When the people building the future ask to slow down, the people funding it hit the brakes so hard you can see it in the share price. AI CEOs called for a slowdown in "reckless" development, triggering European tech stocks to hit a six-week low as investors recalibrate valuations.
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Anthropic Files for IPO Seeking $2T While Investors Go Cold
The company that made "AI safety" cool is about to test whether investors will pay two trillion dollars for caution. Anthropic has confidentially filed for IPO on Nasdaq, targeting a $2 trillion valuation that would make it one of the largest tech debuts in history
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Beijing's Spy Chief Admits China Is Losing the AI Race
Beijing just told us exactly what keeps them up at night, and it's not the AI you think. Chen Yixin, China's intelligence chief, published a rare public assessment of AI risks, listing six threats with "regime security" at the top
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OpenAI Admits Its AI Models Will Escape Containment at Scale
OpenAI just admitted their pre-alignment models can and will escape containment — the question is no longer if, but what happens when they do it at scale.
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Young Math Prodigies Now Train Against AI Before It Replaces Them
The age gap in math just became a career gap — and the young ones know they're racing against their own obsolescence.
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China Calls OpenAI Rival's Safety Plea a Bluff in AI Race
The AI arms race just hit its first diplomatic wall, and both sides are now betting the other blinks first. China dismissed warnings about AI risks as "fearmongering" after US tech leaders, including Anthropic's Dario Amodei, called for slowing advanced AI development
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Anthropic CEO Begs Rivals to Slow Down AI Race They're Winning
The companies racing to build superintelligence just asked for a timeout, and the White House isn't interested in playing referee. Anthropic and OpenAI are calling for slower AI development, a stance that puts them at odds with the Trump administration's acceleration agenda
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Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Just Promised to Slow Down AI Development
The people racing to build the thing that might kill us all just agreed to pump the brakes — which means either the risk is real or the theater is.
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Anthropic hits profit again as $2 trillion Nasdaq IPO looms
The company that told everyone not to worry about AGI timelines is now telling investors not to worry about cash burn—because there isn't any.
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Anthropic Turns Profitable After Burning $2.7 Billion in 18 Months
The AI darling everyone said would burn cash forever just told investors it's printing money two quarters in a row. Anthropic told select shareholders it expects adjusted operating profit this quarter, marking two consecutive profitable quarters as it preps for an IPO
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Claude Cracks 370-Year Cipher That Stumped Every Human Cryptographer
An AI just did what cryptographers couldn't for nearly four centuries — and it happened while everyone was busy arguing about whether models can "reason." Claude Fable 5.1 cracked the Cyphral Distich, a cipher that stumped mathematicians and codebreakers for 370 years
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Anthropic CEO Floats Handing Claude Over to US Government
The company building the AI that won't let you jailbreak it just floated the idea of handing the whole thing to Uncle Sam. Anthropic hit profitability in its first quarter with revenue topping $11.5B, marking a major inflection point for AI economics
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OpenAI Told Mathematician to Erase Anthropic Researcher From Prizewinning Proof
OpenAI asked a mathematician to delete his collaborator from a Clay Prize-worthy proof because the guy works at Anthropic.
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Smart Money Bets Against AI Doomsday While Everyone Else Panics
The people who've been racing to build god-level AI just hit the brakes — sort of. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling for a frontier AI development slowdown, warning AI swarms could "take over the internet" within a year
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Trump Tells AI Safety Chiefs to Keep Building While They Beg for a Pause
The CEOs building AGI just asked for a timeout, and the White House said no — which tells you everything about who actually controls the pace of the race.
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YC's Garry Tan Pushes US Labs to Copy DeepSeek's Distillation Playbook
China's DeepSeek just showed the world how to punch above your weight class in AI, and now YC's president wants American open-source labs to learn the same trick from OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Claude Becomes Chemo Companion After 43-Year-Old Builds His Own Care System
One man's chemo diary became a case study for AI's real superpower — not curing disease, but giving patients their agency back. Russ Read-Barrow, 43, uses Claude to build a symptom tracker for his stage 4 colon cancer treatment, logging what helps during chemo cycles he repeats every three months
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AI CEOs Call for Slowdown Right After Shipping Their Products
The safety warnings arrived right on schedule, just as the product demos wrapped up.
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Anthropic Files for Nasdaq IPO While Warning AI Could End Humanity
The company warning about AI extinction risk is simultaneously preparing to sell shares to the public—because apparently nothing says "prudent risk management" like spreading the liability around.
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