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Will Oremus

@willoremus.com
66 posts
2026-03-05
Interesting!  Anthropic's Claude, the AI tool that the Pentagon famously banned last week, continues to play a crucial role in the U.S. military campaign in Iran, three people familiar with the situation told the @washingtonpost.com:  —  www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...
2026-03-05 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: the US used Palantir's Maven Smart System, integrated with Claude, to find and prioritize 1,000 targets within the first 24 hours of its attack on Iran

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...Bailey McCann /@baileymcc:From the team that brought you “we are too ethical for killbots” what of schools and children then?  Who can I say ...

Interesting!  Anthropic's Claude, the AI tool that the Pentagon famously banned last week, continues to play a crucial role in the U.S. military campaign in Iran, three people familiar with the situation told the @washingtonpost.com:  —  www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...
2026-03-05 View on X
The Information

Memo: Dario Amodei said OpenAI's DOD deal is “safety theater” and the DOD dislikes Anthropic in part because it hadn't “given dictator-style praise to Trump”

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that a deal OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman struck …

2026-03-04
Interesting!  Anthropic's Claude, the AI tool that the Pentagon famously banned last week, continues to play a crucial role in the U.S. military campaign in Iran, three people familiar with the situation told the @washingtonpost.com:  —  www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...
2026-03-04 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: the US used Palantir's Maven Smart System, integrated with Claude, to find and prioritize 1,000 targets within the first 24 hours of its attack on Iran

2026-02-16
NEW: David Greene was the voice of NPR's “Morning Edition.”  Is he also secretly the voice of Google's popular AI podcast tool, NotebookLM?  —  Google says no. Greene thinks they're lying.  My story today breaks the news of his lawsuit and compares the two voices.  Listen for yourself: wapo.st/3ZHRvho
2026-02-16 View on X
Washington Post

Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly replicating his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor

NPR's David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he's suing over it.

2026-02-15
NEW: David Greene was the voice of NPR's “Morning Edition.”  Is he also secretly the voice of Google's popular AI podcast tool, NotebookLM?  —  Google says no. Greene thinks they're lying.  My story today breaks the news of his lawsuit and compares the two voices.  Listen for yourself: wapo.st/3ZHRvho
2026-02-15 View on X
Washington Post

Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly replicating his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor

NPR's David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he's suing over it.See also Mediagazer

2026-01-27
New: Unsealed court docs detail Big Tech's yearslong, secret race to ingest the collective works of humanity, including Anthropic's project to “destructively scan all the books in the world.”  —  Gift link: wapo.st/4rjXAMQ
2026-01-27 View on X
Washington Post

US court filings detail Anthropic's Project Panama, an effort to “destructively scan” up to 2M books with a hydraulic “cutting machine” led by an ex-Google exec

In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet.

Anthropic's project to “destructively scan all the books in the world” was actually viewed as the *more* ethical and legally sound approach to training its AI.  —  Previously the industry standard had been simply to pirate vast “shadow libraries” of digitized books for free online. wapo.st/4rjXAMQ [image]
2026-01-27 View on X
Washington Post

US court filings detail Anthropic's Project Panama, an effort to “destructively scan” up to 2M books with a hydraulic “cutting machine” led by an ex-Google exec

In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet.

2025-12-13
Trump has signed an order directing the federal government to sue states that pass AI laws that threaten America's “global AI dominance.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2... by @gerritd.bsky.social
2025-12-13 View on X
Axios

Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump

States are forging ahead with AI laws despite President Trump's new executive order aimed at reining them in.

Trump has signed an order directing the federal government to sue states that pass AI laws that threaten America's “global AI dominance.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2... by @gerritd.bsky.social
2025-12-13 View on X
Washington Post

Trump's AI executive order directs federal agencies to look into withholding federal funding from states passing “the most onerous and excessive laws” around AI

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post :

2025-12-12
Trump has signed an order directing the federal government to sue states that pass AI laws that threaten America's “global AI dominance.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2... by @gerritd.bsky.social
2025-12-12 View on X
Washington Post

Trump's AI executive order directs federal agencies to look into withholding federal funding from states passing “the most onerous and excessive laws” around AI

but blue states may not like it Associated Press : How Trump is blocking U.S. states from regulating artificial intelligence Joe Miller / Financial Times : Donald Trump threatens f...

Trump has signed an order directing the federal government to sue states that pass AI laws that threaten America's “global AI dominance.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2... by @gerritd.bsky.social
2025-12-12 View on X
Reuters

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”

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order on artificial intelligence that will attempt to preempt …

2025-12-05
New: AI chatbots can change voters' minds, according to a pair of in-depth studies published just now in Science and Nature.  —  How they do it is interesting — and concerning.  Gift link: wapo.st/49RSstP
2025-12-05 View on X
Washington Post

Two studies suggest that AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, by presenting many claims, regardless of their accuracy

New research suggests AI chatbots can shift people's political views more effectively than campaign ads on TV.

2025-11-21
Over on X today, Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is having another normal one www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...
2025-11-21 View on X
The Verge

Grok's chatbot on X says Elon Musk is superior at almost anything, including drinking urine; Musk says Grok was “manipulated by adversarial prompting”

Elon Musk is as smart as da Vinci, fitter than LeBron James, and really good at drinking piss.

2025-10-17
Microsoft should come up with some kind of cute avatar to represent the AI and make it seem more user-friendly.  Something simple and relatable; maybe an everyday object of some sort.  [embedded post]
2025-10-17 View on X
CNBC

Microsoft says it will bring Copilot Actions, which can use apps to complete some tasks on files in Windows 11, to the Windows Insider Program and Copilot Labs

On Tuesday, Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 10, the operating system it introduced 10 years earlier.

Microsoft should come up with some kind of cute avatar to represent the AI and make it seem more user-friendly.  Something simple and relatable; maybe an everyday object of some sort.  [embedded post]
2025-10-17 View on X
The Verge

Microsoft adds new AI features to Windows 11: Copilot Voice, with a “Hey, Copilot!” wake word, and Copilot Vision, which can scan the screen to help the user

where AI is built into the tools people already use every day. With today's updates, every Windows 11 PC becomes an AI PC, with Copilot at the center, ready to help you think, crea...

2025-09-23
on the one hand it's wild that even mr beast loses money on youtube.  on the other hand it's my vague understanding that roughly half of mr. beast's videos are titled “i'll personally give $38 million to whoever can sit on a toilet for 2 months straight” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
2025-09-23 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at MrBeast's entertainment company, which has ~$450M in annual sales but faced three years of losses due to high production costs of $3M-$4M per video

The master of viral videos now has a CEO to rein in spending on Lambos—and give his “banger content” an even wider reach. LinkedIn: Lucas Shaw . Bluesky: @willoremus.com and @carna...

2025-09-20
TikTok has gotten the green light to spin off a US version of its app under different ownership, after Trump and Xi blessed the outlines of a deal today to avert a ban signed by President Biden, @drewharwell.com reports: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...
2025-09-20 View on X
New York Times

Trump appears to suggest Xi Jinping approved a deal to divest TikTok's US operations during a call, but neither side elaborated on what the approval entailed

The president wrote on Truth Social, “appreciate the TikTok approval,” after a call with China's top leader, Xi Jinping.

TikTok has gotten the green light to spin off a US version of its app under different ownership, after Trump and Xi blessed the outlines of a deal today to avert a ban signed by President Biden, @drewharwell.com reports: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...
2025-09-20 View on X
Bloomberg

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says Americans would hold six of the seven board seats for TikTok US and its algorithm would be US-controlled

The US operations of TikTok will be majority-owned and controlled by Americans under a deal reached this week to spin off the platform …

Worth keeping in mind that Trump has a history of announcing deals before all the details are worked out, and there remain significant obstacles to hammer out: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...  [image]
2025-09-20 View on X
Bloomberg

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says Americans would hold six of the seven board seats for TikTok US and its algorithm would be US-controlled

The US operations of TikTok will be majority-owned and controlled by Americans under a deal reached this week to spin off the platform …

Worth keeping in mind that Trump has a history of announcing deals before all the details are worked out, and there remain significant obstacles to hammer out: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...  [image]
2025-09-20 View on X
New York Times

Trump appears to suggest Xi Jinping approved a deal to divest TikTok's US operations during a call, but neither side elaborated on what the approval entailed

The president wrote on Truth Social, “appreciate the TikTok approval,” after a call with China's top leader, Xi Jinping.