Oil Surge, Pentagon vs. AI, and Bitcoin’s Identity Crisis: How the Iran War Exposes the New Market Order
The market’s first instinct in a crisis is usually simple: buy oil, buy gold, dump risk. The Iran war has blown that script apart.
The AI Pentagon Showdown: How One Weekend Rewrote the Rules of Big Tech and Government
In 48 turbulent hours, a contract dispute between an AI safety company and the US military exploded into a full-blown political crisis — one that could define how Silicon Valley does business with Washington for years to come.
Anthropic-Pentagon clash escalates over military AI terms
Anthropic and the U.S. Pentagon are in a high-stakes dispute over how the military can use Anthropic’s AI systems, in a confrontation that has quickly become one of the most important commercial-policy tests in the AI sector this year. Reuters reported this week that Anthropic has no intention of easing key military-use restrictions, even after a meeting between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The Black Seas of Infinity: Dario Amodei on the Coming Technological Rite of Passage
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic and one of the most influential voices in AI today has written a sprawling essay The Adolescence of Technology. He frames humanity’s current relationship with powerful artificial intelligence as a turbulent rite of passage — a phase fraught with risk, upheaval, and potential transformation.
Anthropic Releases New AI Model That Shows Early Signs of Dangerous Capabilities
Anthropic, the generative AI company, has launched an enhanced version of its Claude 3.5 model, called Sonnet, along with an entirely new model named Claude 3.5 Haiku.
