OpenAI and Pentagon Agree to Tighten Surveillance Restrictions in AI Contract After Public Backlash
Altman renegotiated the Pentagon AI contract to ban surveillance using commercially purchased data. The amended terms have not been signed.
How to use Claude Code for file organization: installation, CLAUDE.md setup, five copy-and-paste workflows, and the security risks to know first.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 20,000-word essay warning AI could cause millions of deaths. He's also building those systems.
Meet Boris Cherny, who built Claude Code at Anthropic. His viral workflow runs 10 AI agents in parallel. He hasn't written code by hand in months.
Microsoft hands encryption keys to FBI on request. Unlike Apple's zero-knowledge approach, BitLocker stores keys unencrypted in the cloud by default.
Meta's $2B Manus deal triggered reviews by three Chinese agencies. The 'China shedding' playbook for AI startups faces its first test.
Apple is building an AI wearable pin for 2027, planning 20 million units. Humane sold fewer than 10,000 before HP bought the remains.
Bosworth calls Meta's first Superintelligence Labs models "very good." The hedged language reveals where Meta stands in the AI race after Llama 4 criticism.
Anthropic CEO compares Nvidia H200 sales to China to nuclear proliferation. DeepMind's Hassabis says Chinese labs trail by six months.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp, a philosophy PhD, told Davos that AI will destroy humanities jobs while elevating vocational workers. His conclusion: mass immigration becomes economically unnecessary. The self-described progressive runs a company that sells surveillance tools to ICE.
The IMF just raised its global growth forecast to 3.3%. It also explained why that number depends almost entirely on AI investment continuing, and what happens if the productivity gains never arrive. The fund's own model shows the upgrade could vanish twice over.
The Trump administration wants PJM to hold an emergency power auction where only data center operators can bid. Fifteen-year contracts, no exit clauses. The grid operator wasn't invited to the announcement.
AWS just became the first buyer of American-mined copper in over a decade. The source? Bacteria eating rock in an Arizona desert. As AI data centers consume 47 tonnes of copper per megawatt, Amazon is securing supply chains before the squeeze hits.
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