The Pentagon's fight with Anthropic sparks fears in Silicon Valley and the Capitol of a fundamental shift in the balance of power between DC and the AI industry
“The American people deserve to know what Trump officials are planning at the Pentagon.” — #AI@fightingliberal:‘Attempted corporate murder’: Trump's threats against Anthropic chill AI industry ...
Sources detail how the standoff between the Pentagon and Anthropic escalated after discussions about using Claude during hypothetical nuclear missile attacks
“In a narrow set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values” — Perhaps you should heed that warning? — www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...Tim Carmody /@tcarmo...
NYC-based AI video startup Runway raised a $315M Series E led by General Atlantic, a source says at a $5.3B valuation, and says it will pre-train world models
The AI industry just got another indicator that the future lies beyond words alone. — On Tuesday, video AI firm Runway announced a $315 million Series E funding round.
Andrea Vallone, who left OpenAI in December after serving as its Head of Model Policy, joins Anthropic's alignment team, which tries to understand AI model risk
Andrea Vallone has joined Anthropic's alignment team. … One of the most controversial issues in the AI industry over the past year was what to do when a user displays signs …
Andrea Vallone, who left OpenAI in November as the head of its safety research team, joins Anthropic's alignment team
Andrea Vallone has joined Anthropic's alignment team. … One of the most controversial issues in the AI industry over the past year was what to do when a user displays signs …
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...
Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals says Gemini 3's gains come from better pre-training and post-training, contradicting the idea that pre-training gains are falling
which we discussed in our NeurIPS '25 talk with @ilyasut and @quocleix—the team delivered a drastic jump. The delta between 2.5 and 3.0 is [image] Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy : I played with Gemini 3 ...
Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in early talks to raise funding at a ~$50B valuation, more than quadruple from July and could rise to $55B-$60B
Yeah, okay. — This bubble is running on fumes. Tim Kellogg / @timkellogg.me : i wish my blog posts paid that well [embedded post] Casey Newton / @caseynewton : If they hadn't released a product I th...
Sam Altman says OpenAI doesn't want government guarantees for data centers and expects to fund investments with revenues hitting “hundreds of billions by 2030”
company continues to lobby for financial support from the industry Victor Tangermann / Futurism : Trump Admin Says It's Not Bailing Out the AI Industry Regardless of How Hard It Crashes Arsheeya Bajwa...
A profile of nonprofit Common Crawl, which has scraped billions of webpages since 2013, including paywalled ones, to build an archive used by OpenAI and others
Editor's note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic's ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. X: @kait_tiffany . Bluesky: @katienotopoulos , @damonberes.com , @justinhendrix ,...