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 …
Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow US laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data
On Friday evening, amidst fallout from a standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced …
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.
Anthropic says “Claude will remain ad-free”, its users “won't see ‘sponsored’ links adjacent to” conversations, and responses won't be influenced by advertisers
There are many good places for advertising. A conversation with Claude is not one of them.
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...
Cursor recently experimented with using hundreds of AI agents to build a web browser; they ran for close to a week, writing 1M+ lines of code across 1,000 files
Scaling long-running autonomous coding. Wilson Lin at Cursor has been doing some experiments to see how far you can push a large fleet of “autonomous” coding agents:
METR: Claude Opus 4.5 has a 50% task completion time horizon of about 4 hours and 49 minutes, more than double that of Claude Opus 4 released earlier this year
We estimate that, on our tasks, Claude Opus 4.5 has a 50%-time horizon of around 4 hrs 49 mins (95% confidence interval of 1 hr 49 mins to 20 hrs 25 mins). While we're still workin...
Sources and docs: after Marc Andreessen donated $5M+ to Trump's 2024 campaign, most CFPB probes have stalled, including three into Andreessen-backed companies
so poor all they have is money. And Andreessen is the OG — Original Greed www.propublica.org/article/trum... Scott Horton / @robertscotthorton : Given all the ways in which the ul...
Asana names LaunchDarkly CEO Dan Rogers as its new CEO starting on July 21, replacing co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, who is retiring and will remain board chair
I'm incredibly excited to see what a gifted operator and entrepreneur like Dan can do with the Asana opportunity!
A deep dive into AI as a normal technology vs. a humanlike intelligence and how major public policy based on controlling superintelligence may make things worse
An alternative to the vision of AI as a potential superintelligence — We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology. Bluesky: @taumuyi , @knightcolu...
OpenAI launches o1-pro, which uses more compute than o1 for “consistently better responses”, to select developers for $150/1M input and $600/1M output tokens
OpenAI has launched a more powerful version of its o1 “reasoning” AI model, o1-pro, in its developer API.