Anthropic's concerns are legitimate, but its position is intolerable and misaligned with a reality where US foes are developing autonomous fighting capabilities
Ben Thompson, writing at Stratechery:Charlesarthur /The Overspill:Start Up No.2621: Anthropic's doomed military standoff, chatbots v PDFs, ChatGPT's bad health, 25 years after the ...
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 …
OpenAI's deals with Nvidia, AMD, Oracle, and others for computing power have topped $1T, dwarfing its revenue and raising questions about how it can fund them
Partners including Nvidia, AMD and Oracle have signed up to Sam Altman's huge bet on the future of artificial intelligence
New York AG Letitia James sues Zelle, claiming that security lapses led to $1B+ in consumer fraud losses; the US CFPB dropped a similar case in March 2025
What To Know About Alleged $1 Billion Scams Over The App Lisa Hornung / UPI : N.Y. AG Letitia James sues parent company of Zelle for allowing fraud Truman Lewis / ConsumerAffairs.c...
Silicon Valley has shifted from Web 2.0 to a new “hard tech”, AI-dominated era with fewer perks and a more serious mood, as startups use San Francisco as a base
In a scene in HBO's “Silicon Valley” in 2014, a character who had just sold his idea to a fictional tech company … Bluesky: @romitmehta.com . Mastodon: @ricmac@mastodon.social . X:...
Bluesky rolls out Activity Notifications, letting users get push notifications about new posts and replies from specific accounts, as it doubles down on sports
A new update has also added much more control over which notifications users will see, and who can trigger them.
Apple sparks a backlash from iPhone owners after the Apple Wallet app pushed a notification that promoted a $10 discount at Fandango for Apple's F1 movie
Casey Liss: … In case you forgot after F1 got multiple sections … Kelsey Fogarty / Pocket-lint : This F1 stunt in your Apple Wallet deserves a penalty flag David Uzondu / Neowin : ...
Scale AI used Google Docs to track work for customers like Google, Meta, and xAI, and left confidential AI training documents accessible to anyone with the link
- Scale AI routinely uses public Google Docs for work with Google, Meta, and xAI. — BI reviewed thousands of files …
Snowflake agrees to acquire Crunchy Data, a cloud-based database service that helps businesses and government agencies use PostgreSQL, a source says for ~$250M
an AI-ready, enterprise-grade PostgreSQL database—to our AI Data Cloud. Developers will be able to leverage the full power of open source Postgres [image] Forums: Hacker News : Sno...
Meta and Anduril partner to build EagleEye, a line of XR products like helmets that enhance soldiers' hearing and vision and enable control of AI weapon systems
An AI-Powered Combat Headset That Can Detect Drones Vaughn Cockayne / Washington Times : Meta, Anduril team up to bring high-tech perception to U.S. warfighters Bloomberg : Meta Te...
Meta's Anduril deal shows how much has changed in the past couple of years in Silicon Valley, where developing war tech was once considered a hard red line
Meta is crossing a former hard red line in Silicon Valley to develop tech for military uses. — I can't think of any other deal …
The Los Angeles Times removes Particle's AI-powered “Insights” feature from a column after the tool tried to defend the Ku Klux Klan, just a day after its debut
Welcome to Cautious Optimism, a newsletter on tech, business, and power. Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian : The LA Times' AI ‘bias meter’ looks like a bid to please Donald Trump Sh...
A look at the LA Times' AI “Insights”: much of the cited sourcing wouldn't pass scrutiny in a newsroom or a classroom, and the political labels can be confusing
The hope: The L.A. Times will appear more “objective” if it presents both sides of an issue, even if one side's written …
Netflix raises prices in the US, Canada, Portugal, and Argentina; the standard US plan rose from $15.49 to $17.99 and standard with ads jumped a dollar to $7.99
entertainment TV and films. — Now, customers are going to be subsidizing Netflix's push into live events like NFL and WWE, whether they want to or not. … @durrell : I swear to Go...
Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $10.2B and 301.6M global subscribers, adding 18.9M subscribers, more than double analysts' estimates; NFLX jumps 14%+
- Netflix is raising subscription prices in its biggest market — Report marks the end of regular quarterly customer updates
Congressional leaders seem flummoxed by the growing popularity of Chinese-owned apps Xiaohongshu and Lemon8, an unintended consequence of the TikTok ban
The Chinese apps RedNote and Lemon8 have exploded in popularity as TikTok faces an imminent ban and the Supreme Court upheld the law forcing its sale. Bluesky: @harrymccracken.com ...
The US FTC releases a report saying Microsoft's $13B investment in OpenAI raises concerns that the company could extend its cloud computing dominance into AI
Microsoft-Open AI raises alarms Jon Keegan / Sherwood News : FTC report scrutinizes OpenAI and Anthropic's partnerships with cloud giants Grace Priscilla Teo / Tech in Asia : US wa...
Screenshots: several employees' posts critical of Meta's new board member Dana White were deleted by Meta's ICC, which aims to “minimize disruption” internally
“Insulting, criticizing, or antagonizing our colleagues or Board members is not aligned with the CEE.” Bluesky: @kevinbriody , @romitmehta.com , @emanuelmaiberg , and @hypervisible...
Trump supports H-1B visas, saying “I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I've been a believer in H-1B”, siding with Musk in the MAGA debate on the issue
President-elect Trump told The Post Saturday he supports immigration visas for highly skilled workers …
How H-1B workers from India and other countries help the US remain dominant in tech, as some on the new “Tech Right” discover MAGA's racial-nationalist bigotry
Can't say I did not see this coming, tbh. — x.com/LauraLoomer/... @thetnholler : In-fighting : “The new MAGA coalition has officially had its first internal debate - over H-1b vi...