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Anthropic Is Renting Compute From Everyone, Including Its Enemies
Anthropic committed $200 billion to Google Cloud, rented Musk's supercomputer three months after he called the company 'evil,' and is simultaneously locking in deals with Amazon, CoreWeave, and Akamai. This is not a diversification strategy. It is a survival posture.
The Government Is Now Testing AI Models Before They Launch. The Companies That Designed the Tests Are the Same Ones Being Tested.
CAISI signed pre-deployment AI evaluation agreements with Google, Microsoft, and xAI. Anthropic, whose Mythos model triggered the program, is not on the list.
Trump Killed Biden's AI Safety Framework. Then He Built the Same Thing and Called It Something Else.
The Center for AI Standards and Innovation just signed testing agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI. It is functionally identical to the AI Safety Institute that Trump disbanded. The question is why it took a near-miss called Mythos to change his mind.
The Government Will Test Your AI Before You Get It. The Companies Volunteered.
NIST signed testing agreements with Google, Microsoft, and xAI. The trigger was Anthropic's Mythos. The structure rewards the compliant and punishes no one.
Musk Sues OpenAI for Stealing a Charity While Stealing Its Models
Under oath, Elon Musk admitted xAI distilled OpenAI technology to train Grok. He is also suing OpenAI for abandoning its mission. Both things are true, which is the problem.
Musk Takes the Stand Against OpenAI, Claims Altman Stole a Charity
Day three of the trial reveals a fight not about AI safety but about who controls the most valuable organization in Silicon Valley.
The AGI Ownership Fight
The Musk v. Altman trial starts today. The legal question is whether OpenAI betrayed its non-profit mission. The real question is who gets to own the most consequential technology ever built.
The Federal Government Just Declared War on State AI Regulation, and Colorado Folded Before the Battle Started
The DOJ joined xAI's lawsuit against Colorado's AI antidiscrimination law the same afternoon Colorado's AG agreed to stop enforcing it. No court ordered the freeze. The legislature has 16 days to pass a replacement. The AI Litigation Task Force is just getting started.
The Federal Government Just Told States They Cannot Regulate AI Bias
The DOJ's decision to join xAI's suit against Colorado isn't about Musk. It's a constitutional claim that anti-discrimination mandates in AI are themselves unconstitutional discrimination.
Trump Wants a Single AI Law for All 50 States. He's Lost the Senate 99 to 1.
The White House's National AI Framework asks Congress to preempt every state AI law in America. States have enacted 145 laws and introduced 1,208 more. Congress stripped the preemption provision from the big bill 99-1.
Two Parties, Two Theories of What AI Is
Both parties want to regulate AI, but they disagree on whether the problem is the technology itself or what people do with it, and that gap cannot be bridged.
xAI Is Arguing That Math Is Speech. If It Wins, AI Becomes Constitutionally Unregulateable.
The claim that a language model's probability distributions are protected expression under the First Amendment would create a constitutional black box around every AI system in America.
Saudi Arabia Killed The Line and Built a Data Center Instead
MBS suspended his $500 billion linear city after 1.4% completion, pivoted $23 billion to AI infrastructure, and made Elon Musk's Grok the kingdom's national AI layer. The geopolitical bet underneath this is enormous.