A senior US defense official says the Pentagon formally told Anthropic that the startup and its products “are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately”
The Pentagon said it has formally notified Anthropic PBC that it's deemed the artificial intelligence company and its products a risk to the US supply chain …
Sources: Dario Amodei has been holding talks with the DOD's Emil Michael in a bid to iron out a contract governing the Pentagon's access to Anthropic's models
Dario Amodei is meeting deputy to Pete Hegseth to reach a compromise on military use of the technology
Memo: Dario Amodei said OpenAI's DOD deal is “safety theater” and the DOD dislikes Anthropic in part because it hadn't “given dictator-style praise to Trump”
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that a deal OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman struck …
Leaked Friday memo: Dario Amodei called OpenAI's DOD deal “safety theater”, said DOD dislikes Anthropic in part for not giving “dictator-style praise to Trump”
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that a deal OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman struck …
Sources: the US used Palantir's Maven Smart System, integrated with Claude, to find and prioritize 1,000 targets within the first 24 hours of its attack on Iran
Sources: after five Thinking Machines staff left, investors are rattled, potentially impacting fundraising; two researchers quit via Slack during an all-hands
Sources: internal Google data shows Gemini API calls surged from ~35B in March 2025 to ~85B in August 2025; Google says Gemini Enterprise has hit 8M subscribers
Google's improvements to its Gemini AI models are boosting the company's top line. — Over the past year …
Sources: after five Thinking Machines staff left, investors are rattled, potentially impacting fundraising; two researchers quit via Slack during an all-hands
The timing couldn't have been more awkward for Thinking Machines Lab. — On Wednesday, during an all-hands meeting at the AI startup …
Sources: internal Google data shows Gemini API calls surged from ~35B in March 2025 to ~85B in August 2025; Google says Gemini Enterprise has hit 8M subscribers
Google's improvements to its Gemini AI models are boosting the company's top line. — Over the past year, Google's business selling access …
Google sues data scraping company SerpApi, alleging it used millions of fake search requests to access copyrighted content and sold it to third parties
Google on Friday sued a Texas company that “scrapes” data from online search results, alleging it uses hundreds of millions …
With an influx of Meta alums, some OpenAI staffers worry it is adopting Meta's tactics, like using social media dynamics with Sora and a softening stance on ads
There will be ads in OpenAI products faster than even they expect. [image] Casey Newton / @caseynewton : Really the most Meta-like tactic on display from OAI lately is to release ...
Sources: Meta asked Microsoft, Amazon, and others over the past year to fund Llama training costs in exchange for incentives, as part of a “Llama Consortium”
spending money on something they would eventually get for free w @KalleyHuang 🤝 https://www.theinformation.com/ ... @borrowed_ideas : The sooner $AMZN and $MSFT both understand tha...
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati unveils AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, which she's leading as CEO, with Barret Zoph as CTO and John Schulman as chief scientist
- “Instead of focusing solely on making fully autonomous AI systems, we are excited to build multimodal systems that work …
Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, an experimental “reasoning” model that “explicitly shows its thoughts” and can use them to strengthen its reasoning
Quick: what sort of prompts should you run against GPT-4o vs Gemini 1.5 Flash vs o1 vs o1-pro vs gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp? X: Jeff Dean / @jeffdean : Introducing Gemini 2.0 Fl...
Sources: more than a year before the US election, TikTok executives relaxed moderation rules and enforcement to make the app more appealing to Donald Trump fans
The Information : Bluesky: @mrbrooksher.bsky.social and @nojustdan.bsky.social X: @amir , @erinkwoo , @srimuppidi , @semaforben , and @amir See also Mediagazer Bluesky: Billy Broo...
Internal memo: Noam Shazeer, the ex-CEO of Character.AI who joined Google this month, will be Gemini co-technical lead and work with Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals
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In a letter to investors, Bolt says it is finalizing a $450M Series F at a $14B valuation; documents show the deal terms are bewildering and hard to believe
This is a pay-to-play VC deal for the ages. https://www.theinformation.com/ ... @erinkwoo [image] Sheel Mohnot / @pitdesi : Wild: Breslow back to Bolt as CEO, company raising $450M...
Letter to investors: Bolt is finalizing a $450M Series F at a $14B valuation but with harsh terms for existing investors; Ryan Breslow plans to return as CEO
As startup founder comebacks go, this may rank as one of the most remarkable. — Bolt founder Ryan Breslow is returning as CEO … X: @amir , @pitdesi , @jessicalessin , and @erinkw...
Sources: TikTok is testing an AI feature that generates a virtual influencer and a script for a video ad based on prompts submitted by advertisers
potentially competing with creators for brand deals in the process. scoop with @jingyanghk and @JuroOsawa: https://www.theinformation.com/ ... Marshall Maher / @marvelle : Now the ...
TikTok expands TikTok Lite, which gives people financial incentives to watch its videos, to Spain and France, as the app's growth in Europe slows
https://www.theinformation.com/ ... X: Kaya Yurieff / @kyurieff : The app is already live in Japan and Korea. Japan showed that building a standalone app is “effective in stimulati...