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@nxthompson

@nxthompson
215 posts
2026-03-02
The fight between Anthropic and Pentagon over mass surveillance matters more than most people think. 1) the data we share with AI models is insanely personal 2) the ability of AI models to de-anonymize, and find patterns across platforms, is profound. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... [image]
2026-03-02 View on X
The Atlantic

A source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected from Americans

Right up until the moment that Pete Hegseth moved to terminate the government's relationship with the AI company Anthropic …

The fight between Anthropic and Pentagon over mass surveillance matters more than most people think. 1) the data we share with AI models is insanely personal 2) the ability of AI models to de-anonymize, and find patterns across platforms, is profound. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... [image]
2026-03-02 View on X
The Verge

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 …

2026-02-27
I love this metaphor from Terence Tao—widely considered the world's greatest living mathematician—about one of the drawbacks of using AI to solve hard math problems. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... [image]
2026-02-27 View on X
The Atlantic

Q&A with Terence Tao on AI-generated Erdős solutions, “cheap wins”, hybrid human AI contributions, push-of-a-button workflows, new ways of doing math, and more

Terence Tao, the legendary mathematician, explains the promise of generative AI.

One irony of the showdown between Anthropic and the Pentagon: Perhaps no AI company has been more enthusiastic about partnering with the US military. And the US military loves using Claude. Now the partnership is on the brink of imploding. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... [image]
2026-02-27 View on X
Anthropic

Dario Amodei says Anthropic cannot “in good conscience” accede to DOD's request to remove safeguards and will work to ensure a smooth transition if offboarded

I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.

“These threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request.” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's response to Pete Hegseth's ultimatum: https://www.anthropic.com/... [image]
2026-02-27 View on X
Axios

President Trump calls Anthropic a “radical left, woke company” and says he is directing every federal agency in the US to stop using its products

The Trump administration has decided to blacklist Anthropic in the most consequential and controversial policy decision to date …

“These threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request.” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's response to Pete Hegseth's ultimatum: https://www.anthropic.com/... [image]
2026-02-27 View on X
Anthropic

Dario Amodei says Anthropic cannot “in good conscience” accede to DOD's request to remove safeguards and will work to ensure a smooth transition if offboarded

I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.

One irony of the showdown between Anthropic and the Pentagon: Perhaps no AI company has been more enthusiastic about partnering with the US military. And the US military loves using Claude. Now the partnership is on the brink of imploding. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... [image]
2026-02-27 View on X
Axios

Anthropic says new DOD “contract language” made “virtually no progress” on preventing Claude's use for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Thursday said there has been “virtually no progress” on negotiations with the Pentagon.

One irony of the showdown between Anthropic and the Pentagon: Perhaps no AI company has been more enthusiastic about partnering with the US military. And the US military loves using Claude. Now the partnership is on the brink of imploding. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... [image]
2026-02-27 View on X
Axios

President Trump calls Anthropic a “radical left, woke company” and says he is directing every federal agency in the US to stop using its products

The Trump administration has decided to blacklist Anthropic in the most consequential and controversial policy decision to date …

2026-02-16
Old Claude: We broke trying to run a vending machine. New Claude: We captured Maduro and assassinated all his Cuban guards with no casualties. Would you like me to transition the government to democracy or leave it as is? https://www.wsj.com/...
2026-02-16 View on X
Axios

Admin official: Pentagon may sever Anthropic relationship over AI safeguards; Anthropic says only mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons are off limits

2026-02-15
Old Claude: We broke trying to run a vending machine. New Claude: We captured Maduro and assassinated all his Cuban guards with no casualties. Would you like me to transition the government to democracy or leave it as is? https://www.wsj.com/...
2026-02-15 View on X
Axios

Admin official: Pentagon may sever Anthropic relationship over AI safeguards; Anthropic says only mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons are off limits

The Pentagon is considering severing its relationship with Anthropic over the AI firm's insistence on maintaining some limitations …

2026-01-21
The most interesting thing in tech: Everyone in Davos is talking about geopolitics and the growing antagonism between the US and Europe. But geopolitics are sometimes downstream of tech. And one thing that Europe could do is build its own open-source AI models. @ericschmidt [video]
2026-01-21 View on X
New York Times

The World Economic Forum in Davos is now dominated by tech giants, whose interests shunt aside topics like climate change, as Trump and AI take center stage

The most interesting thing in tech: Everyone in Davos is talking about geopolitics and the growing antagonism between the US and Europe. But geopolitics are sometimes downstream of tech. And one thing that Europe could do is build its own open-source AI models. @ericschmidt [video]
2026-01-21 View on X
Bloomberg

World Economic Forum panel: Palantir CEO Alex Karp says AI-driven job displacement will “make it hard to imagine why we should have large-scale immigration”

2026-01-20
The most interesting thing in tech: Everyone in Davos is talking about geopolitics and the growing antagonism between the US and Europe. But geopolitics are sometimes downstream of tech. And one thing that Europe could do is build its own open-source AI models. @ericschmidt [video]
2026-01-20 View on X
New York Times

The World Economic Forum in Davos is now dominated by tech giants, whose interests shunt aside topics like climate change, as Trump and AI take center stage

2025-11-25
“The scale of the deception—as revealed by the “About” feature—suggests that in his haste to turn X into a political weapon for the far right, Musk may have revealed that the platform is really just a worthless, poisoned hall of mirrors.” @cwarzel https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2025-11-25 View on X
Techdirt

X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not “censorship” of viewpoints

from the it's-almost-as-if-there-are-some-bad- actors-online dept  —  For the last few years, Matt Taibbi …

2025-08-11
So the argument is that selling advanced chips to China is a dire national security threat — unless the US Government gets some cash, in which case it's ok?
2025-08-11 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: Nvidia and AMD agreed to pay the US government 15% of H20 and MI308 chip revenue from China sales, as a condition of export licenses granted last week

Chipmakers agree to unusual arrangement to secure export licences from Trump administration  —  Nvidia and AMD have agreed …

2025-04-26
The most interesting thing in tech: a terrific new paper from @DarioAmodei on why models remain black boxes and what we can do to understand them. I'd also add that we should know what they trained on. [video]
2025-04-26 View on X
Dario Amodei

Interpretability, or understanding how AI models work, can help mitigate many AI risks, such as misalignment and misuse, that stem from AI systems' opacity

In the decade that I have been working on AI, I've watched it grow from a tiny academic field to arguably the most important economic and geopolitical issue in the world.

2025-01-26
The anger over Deepseek training on ChatGPT's outputs, in violation of TOS, is justified. But it might perhaps also make the AI companies think about the training they did on copyrighted content without consent. https://techcrunch.com/...
2025-01-26 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Rather than weakening China's AI capabilities, US sanctions appear to be driving startups like DeepSeek to innovate by prioritizing efficiency and collaboration

The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model.  —  The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek …

The anger over Deepseek training on ChatGPT's outputs, in violation of TOS, is justified. But it might perhaps also make the AI companies think about the training they did on copyrighted content without consent. https://techcrunch.com/...
2025-01-26 View on X
Financial Times

Industry insiders say DeepSeek's focus on research makes it a dangerous competitor as it's willing to share breakthroughs rather than protect them for profits

China is pulling the same trick.  —  www.ft.com/content/747a... Mastodon: Brian Kung / @briankung@hachyderm.io : “There's a pretty delicious, or maybe disconcerting irony to this, ...

2025-01-25
The anger over Deepseek training on ChatGPT's outputs, in violation of TOS, is justified. But it might perhaps also make the AI companies think about the training they did on copyrighted content without consent. https://techcrunch.com/...
2025-01-25 View on X
VentureBeat

Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research and open source” like Meta's Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones

If you hadn't heard, there's a new AI star in town: DeepSeek, the subsidiary of Hong Kong-based quantitative analysis …

2025-01-13
“AI will change journalists' jobs more than it will replace them.” A smart essay by John Micklethwait on eight ways that AI will reshape our industry. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2025-01-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait predicts AI's impact on journalism: jobs will change, not vanish, reporting and breaking news will remain valuable, and more

tasks AI can't easily replicate.  Editors, on the other hand, operate in a space ripe for disruption. X: Sean O'Brien / @sotweets : Amid a lot of turmoil about the state of journal...