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Pentagon preparing to label Anthropic a supply chain risk over Claude military restrictions, threatening to cut ties after months of failed negotiations.
France raided X's Paris offices with Europol on Tuesday and summoned Musk for questioning. Hours later, the UK and EU opened separate probes into Grok deepfakes.
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.
Trump's Greenland tariffs have Europe openly discussing its "trade bazooka," a weapon that could ban U.S. tech firms from 450 million consumers overnight. For Silicon Valley, this isn't about bourbon and motorcycles anymore.
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.
Grok produced 6,700 sexualized images per hour while other deepfake sites averaged 79. California's AG opened an investigation the same day Musk claimed he saw "literally zero" illegal content. xAI's fix: charge $8 to keep using the feature.
Meta just named a Goldman Sachs banker—not an AI researcher—to lead its $600 billion infrastructure buildout. The appointment signals that AI has become a capital and political problem, not a technical one. Powell McCormick's job is handshakes in Riyadh and zoning hearings in Nevada.
