David Jeans

Source: Anthropic has no intention of easing Claude usage restrictions for military purposes, following Dario Amodei's meeting with Pete Hegseth

Artificial intelligence lab Anthropic has no intention of easing its usage restrictions for military purposes, a person familiar with the matter …

Sources: DOD told Anthropic it will invoke the Defense Production Act or label Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, if not given unfettered Claude access by Friday

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei until Friday evening to give the military unfettered access …

Sources: the Pentagon is pushing OpenAI, Anthropic, and others to make their AI tools available on classified networks without the standard user restrictions

The Pentagon is pushing the top AI companies including OpenAI and Anthropic to make their artificial-intelligence tools available …

Sources: Doug Beck, director of the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit, resigns; DOD officials had previously raised concerns about his donations to Democrats

Second Front, which helps companies deploy software in sensitive government networks, raised a $75M Series C led by Salesforce, sources say at a $750M valuation

Defense tech startup Second Front, which gives companies a quick on-ramp to deploying software within sensitive government networks …

Austin-based Saronic, which is developing autonomous military boats, raised a $175M Series B led by a16z at a $1B+ valuation, taking its total funding to ~$245M

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In a letter to Elon Musk, Rep. Mike Gallagher says SpaceX may be in breach of DOD contracts after sources say Starshield is inactive around Taiwan for US troops

In a letter to Elon Musk, Rep. Mike Gallagher says SpaceX may be in breach of DOD contracts after sources say Starshield is inactive around Taiwan for US troops

Rep. Mike Gallagher, who led a delegation to Taiwan this week, said in a letter to Musk that SpaceX could possibly be in breach of its …

How AI defense tech developer Rebellion Defense is struggling to survive after failing to win a US DOD contract, losing its founders, and shuttering its UK arm

Forbes : X: @drleostrauss , @mideastxmidwest , and @davidjeans2 X: @drleostrauss : Cautionary SV-DoD tale. $1 billion 🇺🇸 SV defense sector AI start up. Chased DoD contracts withou...

Sources: ad executives told Linda Yaccarino that she is risking her reputation and should step down as X's CEO to make a statement about racism and antisemitism

Sources: NYC-based workplace safety AI startup Intenseye is raising a $65M Series B led by Lightspeed at a ~$300M valuation, up from a ~$100M valuation in 2021

Credit card processor Checkout.com cuts its Binance contract short over regulatory “actions and orders in relevant jurisdictions” and money laundering concerns

Checkout.com, the London-based credit card processing company that ballooned its business model by servicing billions …

A profile of Guangying “Heina” Chen, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao's mysterious associate who appears repeatedly in the SEC's lawsuit against the crypto exchange

Binance plans to cease most trading pairs involving Helium Network Tokens, or HNT, over the next week and “strongly” advises users to close out their positions

Forbes : Tweets: @sarahnemerson , @davidjeans2 , and @can Tweets: Sarah Emerson / @sarahnemerson : NEW: Binance suddenly announced it will partially delist Helium's token, saying ...

Flow's Adam Neumann seems to have a conflict of interest given he is the largest investor in real estate tech startup Alfred and had board seats there until May

which sounds a lot like Marcela Sapone's company Alfred. @alexrkonrad @_IainMartin and @cfarivar have been working 'round the clock on this investigation. https://www.forbes.com/.....

Adam Neumann's real estate startup Flow plans to launch a digital wallet for crypto and fiat currencies and may offer a tokenized rewards program

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Internal memo: Better.com CEO Vishal Garg resumes full-time duties over a month after taking time off following his controversial firing of ~900 staff on Zoom

The volatile founder had laid off hundreds of workers in an emotionless webinar, triggering widespread scorn online.

Sources: TPG invested $47M in HR software startup Greenhouse and spent around $450M buying shares from existing investors including Benchmark and Thrive Capital

Profile of Vishal Garg, CEO of Better.com, who is fighting lawsuits that accuse him of fraud and misappropriation of funds at previous business ventures

Sources say ScaleFactor, which raised ~$100M to automate bookkeeping before blaming COVID-19 for its closure, used dozens of human accountants instead of AI

Kurt Rathmann told his big-name investors he had developed groundbreaking AI to do the books for small businesses.  In reality, humans did most of the work. Tweets: @davidjeans2 , ...