The Anthropic-DOD skirmish is the first major public debate on control over frontier AI, and institutions behaved erratically, maliciously, and without clarity
On Anthropic and the Department of War — I. — A little more than a decade ago, I sat with my father and watched him die.
Sources: amid negotiations with the DOD, Anthropic submitted a bid to compete in a $100M DOD contest to develop voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming tech
Anthropic PBC was among the artificial intelligence companies that submitted a proposal earlier this year to compete …
The US Treasury Department, State Department, and Federal Housing Finance Agency stop using Anthropic's AI products; the State Department will switch to OpenAI
The U.S. Treasury Department, State Department and the federal housing agency are terminating all use of Anthropic products …
Dario Amodei says Anthropic cannot “in good conscience” accede to DOD's request to remove safeguards and will work to ensure a smooth transition if offboarded
I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.
President Trump calls Anthropic a “radical left, woke company” and says he is directing every federal agency in the US to stop using its products
The Trump administration has decided to blacklist Anthropic in the most consequential and controversial policy decision to date …
[Thread] An OpenAI researcher says the company's latest experimental reasoning LLM achieved gold medal-level performance on the 2025 International Math Olympiad
1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most pres...
Brazil blocks X, following an order from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country
The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians …
Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes orders X's suspension in Brazil after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country
SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday ordered the suspension of Elon Musk's social media giant X in Brazil …
Musk reposts an edited Kamala Harris campaign video that mimics her voice, possibly with deepfake tech; it has 129M+ views and seemingly breaks X's own rules
The billionaire owner of the social media platform X reposted a video that mimics Vice President Kamala Harris's voice, without disclosing that it had been altered.
President Biden vetoes a bill overturning SAB 121, a controversial SEC bulletin that establishes accounting standards for companies that custody crypto
- U.S. President Joe Biden vetoed a bill to overturn a controversial Securities and Exchange Commission bulletin, SAB 121 …
NYC-based Viam, which offers an automation software platform for robotics, IoT, smart homes, and more, raised a $45M Series B, taking its total raised to $87M
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Apple voices its support for California's Right to Repair Act, which passed a Senate vote 38-0 in May 2023 and now awaits approval before a full assembly vote
[1]: https://techcrunch.com/... … @Leisureguy@mstdn.ca : Jason Koebler reports in 404 Media how the Biden administration (in the NHTSA) switched from opposing the Massachusetts rig...
Q&A with Steve Huffman: Reddit's API “was never designed to support third-party apps”, he didn't know how much they “were profiting off of our API”, and more
Steve Huffman praises Elon Musk's aggressive cost-cutting and layoffs at Twitter and says he saw Musk's handling of Twitter as an example for Reddit to follow
Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk's cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted “a handful of times.”
Early screenshots show Microsoft is testing a non-custodial Ethereum crypto wallet built into Edge that lets users send and receive cryptocurrencies and NFTs
Twitter quietly updates its developer agreement with a clause banning third-party clients, after claiming the company was “enforcing long-standing API rules”
This Twitter Developer Agreement ("Agreement") is made between you … Sean Heber / The Breakroom : Twitterrific: End of an Era Timi Cantisano / XDA Developers : Twitter's next updat...
Twitter quietly updates its developer agreement with a clause banning third-party clients, after claiming the company was “enforcing long-standing API rules”
In case there was any doubt about Twitter's intentions in cutting off the developers of third-party apps …
Sources: Apple plans to allow third-party app stores on iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 in the EU, due to EU requirements in 2024, including letting users change defaults
Apple Inc. is preparing to allow alternative app stores on its iPhones and iPads, part of a sweeping overhaul aimed at complying …
Sources: Alameda secretly loaned $43M to LLCs tied to The Block CEO Michael McCaffrey, used in part to buy and run the crypto news site; McCaffrey resigns
The Block, a media company that says it covers crypto news independently, has been secretly funded for over a year with money funneled …
Elon Musk fired at least two Twitter engineers who publicly criticized him on the social network, in one case announcing the firing in a now-deleted tweet
Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk, who has called himself a “free speech absolutist,” has resorted to firing company engineers who publicly criticize him on the social-media service.