Interview with Pentagon AI head Emil Michael on his view that Anthropic leaked negotiations to the press to win anti-Trump users, dealing with Amodei, and more
what if this software went down? Some guardrail kicked up? Some refusal happened for the next fight like this one and we left our people at risk?” “I went to @SecWar @PeteHegseth and told him what ...
The US launches the Tech Corps, a program under the Peace Corps to send volunteers abroad to promote American AI, as the US competes with China for AI dominance
The US launches the Tech Corps, a program under the Peace Corps to send volunteers abroad to promote American AI, as the US competes with China for AI dominance
Washington to send volunteers abroad to promote American AI models as Chinese open-weight models are proving popular.
Documents and sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan backed a $500M investment for a 49% stake in WLF, four days before Trump's inauguration
$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips
Documents and sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan backed a $500M investment for a 49% stake in WLF, four days before Trump's inauguration
$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips
President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”
Transformer Weekly: Trump signs EO, Hochul guts the RAISE Act, and GPT-5.2 launches Michael Kan / PCMag : Trump Signs Executive Order to Go After ‘Burdensome’ State AI Laws Poligirlsayswhat / Baller A...
Investigation: the US government allowed and even helped US companies sell tech used for China's surveillance across five GOP and Democratic administrations
enacting a loophole-ridden export control regime that failed to accomplish its big goals. By @garanceburke.bsky.social, @dakekang.bsky.social & me. — apnews.com/article/chin... Andrew Levesque / @a...
In its proposal for White House's AI Action Plan, OpenAI calls for a strategy that preserves “American AI models' ability to learn from copyrighted material”
Hayden Field / CNBC :
The US Navy instructs its members to avoid using DeepSeek “in any capacity” due to “potential security and ethical concerns”
they'll forget tiktok hysteria was ever even a thing (or that they spent three years freaking out only to pass a meta-written law that's now being ignored) Jordan Uhl / @jordanuhl.com : They're just g...
Sources: Meta set up four war rooms to analyze High-Flyer's DeepSeek, including two for how High-Flyer cut training costs and one on what data it may have used
“Wait, how much are we spending on research of little/no utility to Meta proper?” — “Wait, what? How much? How many Stanford PhDs did LeCun hire to endlessly fellate his ego?” — “Are you kidding...