A small AI foundation just achieved what most Washington lobbyists can't: getting all three policy recommendations into Trump's AI Action Plan. The stakes? Who controls AI measurement standards could determine the US-China tech race.
Meta copied a Chinese AI startup's techniques for Llama 4, but developers hated the result. Now Zuckerberg is spending $14 billion to fix his strategy while growth slows and investors wonder if the AI bet will pay off.
Anthropic raised $5 billion at a $170 billion valuation after CEO admitted the company's "no bad person should benefit" policy was too difficult to maintain. The AI safety champion now takes Middle East money to compete with OpenAI.
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