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Silicon Valley Built Its AI Future in a War Zone. Iran Just Sent the Invoice.

Silicon Valley Built Its AI Future in a War Zone. Iran Just Sent the Invoice.

Iran's IRGC released a video targeting OpenAI's $30 billion Stargate data center in Abu Dhabi, but the real threat runs far deeper. Eighteen US tech companies are on Tehran's target list. Iranian drones already struck three AWS data centers, marking the first military attacks on hyperscale cloud infrastructure. With hundreds of billions in Gulf AI investments carrying war risk the industry never modeled, Silicon Valley's biggest bet is starting to break.

By Harkaram Grewal · 11 min read ·
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2 Morning Briefing
OpenAI's CFO Says No. Claude Loses in Popularity.
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5 Tools & Workflows
Arcee AI Releases 400B Open Reasoning Model That Rivals Claude at 96% Lower Cost
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Arcee AI Releases 400B Open Reasoning Model That Rivals Claude at 96% Lower Cost

Arcee AI's Trinity-Large-Thinking scores 91.9 on PinchBench, within two points of Claude Opus 4.6, at 96% lower cost. The 400B-parameter open-source reasoning model activates only 13B parameters per token, trained for $20 million by a 30-person team on 2,048 NVIDIA GPUs.

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8 From Today's Analysis
“Iran named 18 US tech companies as targets and already struck three AWS data centers in the Gulf. With hundreds of billions in AI investments from Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and Nvidia at risk, the real damage isn't one building. It's the confidence collapse that makes the region uninvestable.”
From: Silicon Valley Built Its AI Future in a War Zone. Iran Just Sent the Invoice.
9 Deep Dive
Anthropic Built an Operating System for Code. Then Shipped the Blueprints to npm.
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Anthropic Built an Operating System for Code. Then Shipped the Blueprints to npm.

Anthropic shipped Claude Code's 512,000-line source to npm for the second time in 13 months, its second data exposure in under a week. A post linking to the code hit 21 million views before the company responded. Anthropic told CNBC it is rolling out measures but offered no specifics. Chinese labs that ran 16 million distillation exchanges now have the production harness those API calls could never reach.

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