Anthropic Confidentially Files for What Could Be the Largest IPO Ever
… Hegseth deemed the company’s ethical stances—including its resistance to the unsupervised use of Claude in high-stakes scenarios—a national security threat. …
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Anthropic Plots Major London Expansion
… UK government officials had reportedly attempted to coax Anthropic into expanding its presence in London after the company recently fell out with the US administration. …
Activists Are Taking On Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO
… AkademikerPension, a retirement plan for teachers and other government workers in Denmark, considers SpaceX’s rumored valuation target “very rich and would in isolation make us cautious in participating,” says the fund’s head of global equities, Dan Wejse. …
Elon Musk Had ‘Hair-Raising’ Idea of Passing OpenAI On to His Kids, Sam Altman Says
…Altman testified that he owns a nearly $2 billion equity stake in the nuclear energy startup, Helion. He also confirmed that OpenAI struck an agreement with Helion in 2024 that would allow…
Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over Supply-Chain-Risk Designation
… The lawsuit, which was filed in a federal court in California, requested that a judge reverse the designation and stop federal agencies from enforcing it. “The Constitution does not allow the government to wield its enormous power to punish a company for its protected speech,” Anthropic said in th… …
Elon Musk Is the World’s First Trillionaire
… He remains a reviled figure in many circles, including for his efforts last year to dismantle parts of the US government and his years of popularizing and allowing hateful rhetoric through his social media presence. …
OpenAI and Anthropic May Be Rivals, but Investors Aren’t Picking Sides
… Companies sometimes share proprietary information with investors or lean on them for advice or governance, and having stakes in rivals invites awkward conversations. …
Amazon Employees Show Up to City Council Meetings to Demand Limits on Data Centers
“Local governments, in collaboration with community stakeholders, should be setting the terms for data center buildout,” Amazon senior software engineer Liesl Wigand said at a city hearing. “Let’s not let Big Tech burn Seattle to win the AI race.” The comments by Wigand and two other Amazon softwar… …
The Danger Behind Meta Killing End-to-End Encryption for Instagram DMs
… And as threats to end-to-end encryption from governments around the world loom larger than ever, Meta quietly announced last week that it intends to eliminate the feature from Instagram chat entirely on May 8. …
MyMove Is the US Government’s Shittiest Website
… Even after they caught the attention of postal officials, their proposal was bogged down in government processes, privacy concerns, and a debate about whether the welcome kits would imply that the US government endorsed the brands advertised in them. …