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Jessica Lessin

@jessicalessin
253 posts
2026-03-05
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that the Trump Administration didn't like Anthropic in part because the company hadn't “given dictator-style praise to Trump.” Exclusive from @steph_palazzolo and @erinkwoo and @srimuppidi https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
2026-03-05 View on X
Financial Times

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

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that the Trump Administration didn't like Anthropic in part because the company hadn't “given dictator-style praise to Trump.” Exclusive from @steph_palazzolo and @erinkwoo and @srimuppidi https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
2026-03-05 View on X
Bloomberg

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 …

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that the Trump Administration didn't like Anthropic in part because the company hadn't “given dictator-style praise to Trump.” Exclusive from @steph_palazzolo and @erinkwoo and @srimuppidi https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
2026-03-05 View on X
The Information

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 …

2026-03-04
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that the Trump Administration didn't like Anthropic in part because the company hadn't “given dictator-style praise to Trump.” Exclusive from @steph_palazzolo and @erinkwoo and @srimuppidi https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
2026-03-04 View on X
The Information

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 …

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that the Trump Administration didn't like Anthropic in part because the company hadn't “given dictator-style praise to Trump.” Exclusive from @steph_palazzolo and @erinkwoo and @srimuppidi https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
2026-03-04 View on X
Washington Post

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

2026-03-03
For people just getting to know the Department of War's Emil Michael there are two big things you need to know about his time as the no 2 to Kalanick at Uber. 1/ he was the architect of Uber's war chest. In this respect he was the sam altman before sam altman, scouring the
2026-03-03 View on X
Financial Times

Sam Altman says OpenAI amended its DOD contract to ensure “the AI system shall not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of US persons and nationals”

Sam Altman says company is working with defence department on provisions covering mass surveillance

2/ he was notorious as the exemplar of Uber's aggressive culture. Someone under him was accused of accessing a rape victim's confidential medical records (Uber settled) and he ultimately resigned around the same time as Kalanick due to the company's myriad scandals.
2026-03-03 View on X
Axios

OpenAI and the DOD agree to add more surveillance protections to their AI deal; sources say Sam Altman approached the DOD's Emil Michael to rework the contract

OpenAI and the Pentagon have agreed to strengthen their recently agreed contract, following widespread backlash …

2/ he was notorious as the exemplar of Uber's aggressive culture. Someone under him was accused of accessing a rape victim's confidential medical records (Uber settled) and he ultimately resigned around the same time as Kalanick due to the company's myriad scandals.
2026-03-03 View on X
Financial Times

Sam Altman says OpenAI amended its DOD contract to ensure “the AI system shall not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of US persons and nationals”

Sam Altman says company is working with defence department on provisions covering mass surveillance

For people just getting to know the Department of War's Emil Michael there are two big things you need to know about his time as the no 2 to Kalanick at Uber. 1/ he was the architect of Uber's war chest. In this respect he was the sam altman before sam altman, scouring the
2026-03-03 View on X
Axios

OpenAI and the DOD agree to add more surveillance protections to their AI deal; sources say Sam Altman approached the DOD's Emil Michael to rework the contract

OpenAI and the Pentagon have agreed to strengthen their recently agreed contract, following widespread backlash …

2026-02-17
Altman confirmed my scoop. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
2026-02-17 View on X
@sama

Sam Altman says Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI “to drive the next generation of personal agents”; OpenClaw will remain open source

2026-02-16
Altman confirmed my scoop. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
2026-02-16 View on X
Implicator.ai

In a podcast, OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger describes his phone calls with Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman, and says he had been contacted by “every big VC”

Mark Zuckerberg needed ten minutes.  He was finishing code.  —  Peter Steinberger had called him on WhatsApp without scheduling anything.

Altman confirmed my scoop. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
2026-02-16 View on X
@sama

Sam Altman says Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI “to drive the next generation of personal agents”; OpenClaw will remain open source

Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting wi...

2026-02-15
Altman confirmed my scoop. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
2026-02-15 View on X
@sama

Sam Altman says Peter Steinberger, founder of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI “to drive the next generation of personal agents”; OpenClaw will remain open source

Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting wi...

2026-02-05
This is excellent comms from @sama .  An eye popping stat and an easy to understand claim.  I hate, though, this budding movement to frame the business model debate as elitism versus anti-elitism.  When chatbots launched with subscription business models, I thought it would be a great new era of consumer tech with blended ads and subs, much as we've seen with Netflix, Spotify etc [...]
2026-02-05 View on X
@sama

Sam Altman says Anthropic's Super Bowl ads are funny but “dishonest”, and Anthropic serves a “product to rich people” while OpenAI is “committed to free access”

First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for a...

2026-01-22
Will you pin an Apple AI- enabled AirTag like device to your chest? I'm a maybe. Amazing scoop from @waynema @QianerLiu https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
2026-01-22 View on X
The Information

A look at Craig Federighi's approach to AI at Apple; sources say he led a push to use other companies' models to help launch a revamped Siri later in 2026

The Information:

Will you pin an Apple AI- enabled AirTag like device to your chest? I'm a maybe. Amazing scoop from @waynema @QianerLiu https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
2026-01-22 View on X
The Information

Sources: Apple is developing an AirTag-sized AI wearable pin with cameras, a speaker, microphones, and wireless charging, which it could launch as early as 2027

Apple is developing an AI-powered wearable pin the size of an AirTag that is equipped with multiple cameras, a speaker …

2026-01-21
From a news cycle and buzz perspective, Google and Anthropic are winning Davos. And they are doing it by not so subtly attacking OpenAI.
2026-01-21 View on X
Sources

Demis Hassabis says Google doesn't have “any plans” for ads in Gemini and, regarding OpenAI testing ads, says “maybe they feel they need to make more revenue”

During our convo in Davos, Demis Hassabis and I chatted about ads in AI, Google's new deal with Apple, humanoids, and Gemini 4.

2026-01-20
“Requests sent to the Gemini API, known as API calls, more than doubled from around 35 billion in March, when Gemini 2.5 was first released, to around 85 billion in August, according to internal data reviewed by The Information.” That's a lot of growth. @erinkwoo
2026-01-20 View on X
The Information

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 …

2026-01-19
“Requests sent to the Gemini API, known as API calls, more than doubled from around 35 billion in March, when Gemini 2.5 was first released, to around 85 billion in August, according to internal data reviewed by The Information.” That's a lot of growth. @erinkwoo
2026-01-19 View on X
The Information

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 …

2025-12-17
As I said on TITV, that small Amazon - OpenAI compute deal smelled like broader talks were afoot... Predicted commerce was part of the story. Watch this space!
2025-12-17 View on X
The Information

Sources: Amazon is in talks to invest $10B+ in OpenAI at a $500B+ valuation, with OpenAI using AWS Trainium; Microsoft keeps the rights to sell OpenAI's models

Amazon is in talks to invest $10 billion or more in OpenAI, according to three people familiar with the discussions.