China's Spy Chief Warns AI Threatens Communist Party Control
Beijing's spy chief just said the quiet part out loud: AI is a threat to the Communist Party. So why is the foreign ministry playing it cool?
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OpenAI and Anthropic Researchers Quit as Bosses Beg for More Cash
The people building AGI are now publicly worried about AGI, but they need you to keep funding it anyway. An Anthropic researcher resigned last week, intensifying debate over AI development speed among tech leaders who've already committed hundreds of billions to the technology
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Musk Drops Apple From Antitrust Suit Hours After Filing
Musk sued Apple and OpenAI for locking Grok out of iOS, then settled with Apple before the ink dried — but OpenAI's still in the crosshairs.
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OpenAI Accused of Breaking California's AI Safety Law Days After Pushing "Responsible Innovation
The company racing to convince the world its AI is safe enough to reshape civilization can't seem to file the right paperwork in Sacramento. An AI watchdog group claims OpenAI violated California's AI safety law with every model it released this year, including its latest Astra releases
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Michael Burry Says AI Doomsayers Are Running a Racket
The man who saw the housing crash coming says the AI doomsayers are running a racket. Michael Burry called AI leaders "self-serving" for advocating slowdowns after researchers warned AI could eliminate humanity
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Trump Fires Back at Anthropic CEO Over AI Slowdown Push
The president who promised to let AI run wild just collided with the CEO whose models already did.
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OpenAI and Anthropic Beg UK Government to Regulate Them
The safety panic is coming from inside the AI labs. OpenAI and Anthropic are both publicly urging UK lawmakers to regulate AI development, a sharp reversal from the industry's traditional playbook of resisting oversight.
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Trump Tells AI Leaders He's the Only Regulation They Need
When the AI industry asks for brakes, the White House offers a mirror. Trump claimed on Truth Social the only guardrail AI needs is "a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT," responding to weekend calls from Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX leaders to slow development
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Anthropic, OpenAI and DeepMind Hold Secret Safety Talks Without China
The companies building AGI just realized they need permission structures, and China's not picking up the phone. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind are in talks to establish shared AI safety standards, marking the first serious coordination attempt between competing frontier labs
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Strategy bought $139M of its own stock instead of bitcoin
The world's biggest corporate bitcoin holder just spent $139 million on itself instead of more coin. Strategy repurchased $139 million of its STRC preferred shares while leaving its bitcoin holdings untouched at 845,050 BTC
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Anthropic's CEO Just Named the Job That Will Control AI's Future
When your competitors agree with you in public, you've either proposed something brilliant or something inevitable.
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Intel Backs $130M Bet That AI Can't Scale Without Fixing Construction First
The same companies building AI infrastructure can't build it fast enough — so now they're using AI to fix construction itself. Buildots raised $130 million to deploy AI monitoring for mega-projects like data centers, chip fabs, and hospitals — Intel is a backer and a customer
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OpenAI Insiders Expect 20% Chance of Human Extinction
The labs building god-tier AI are slowing down in public while racing toward recursive self-improvement in private, and some of them think there's a decent chance it kills us all.
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Fed Rate Hike This Week Could Kill Crypto's Rally Before Senate Even Votes
The crypto market is pricing in two colliding forces this week: a probable Fed rate hike that could kill the current rally, and a Senate vote on the CLARITY Act that could legitimize digital assets as a proper investment class for the first time.
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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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Firmus Bets $5 Billion That AI's Power Hunger Isn't Hype
The biggest Australian IPO in history is a bet that AI's appetite for electricity will outlast the hype cycle. Firmus Technologies is targeting a $5 billion IPO in Australia, which would make it the largest offering in the country's history
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Oil Crushes Bitcoin as Traders Bet Against the Fed
Markets just picked a side in the inflation war — and Bitcoin isn't on it. Spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $462M in net outflows as traders priced in 87% odds of a Wednesday rate hike
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Robinhood CEO Demands Wall Street Lose Control Over Tokenized Stocks
The fight over who controls tokenized versions of public stocks just got a heavyweight: the CEO who made free trading mainstream.
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