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Interesting Frontier AI Lab Articles

July 26, 2026

Older interesting headlines about Frontier AI labs that may have scrolled off the timeline.

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• CAIS AI Dashboard Update: We evaluated GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude Fable 5, and Muse Spark 1.1 on text, vision, and safety benchmarks. Claude Fable 5 leads on capabilities, with GPT-5.6 close behind. On the Risk (Safety) Index, Fable 5 and Muse Spark 1.1 tie for the lead. — Center for AI Safety/Twitter — 13-07-2026

• How Claude's values vary by model and language — Anthropic — 13-07-2026

• 'Not where they hoped it'd be': Launch of Trump AI promotion program underwhelms — Politico — 11-07-2026

• Beyond Claude Code: the Chinese AI tools poised to benefit after back-door alert — South China Morning Post — 11-07-2026

• The Great Wave Has Arrived (from GLM CEO Jie Tang) — Bing Xu/Twitter — 11-07-2026

• The Future Worth Building Is Human — Thinking Machines Lab — 10-07-2026

• Scoop: Talk has begun circulating around town that the White House may be considering a possible executive order on open-source AI, sparked by fears about Chinese dominance, nine people familiar told me. — Jacob Wendler/Twitter — 10-07-2026

• "God has helped us, and so will AI": How the Terrorist Group Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI — Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy — 10-07-2026

• Chinese users praise OpenAI's GPT-5.6 for efficiency, even at higher cost than local rivals — South China Morning Post — 10-07-2026

• China omits urban job-creation target from five-year plan for first time in decades, citing AI-driven labor disruption — Bloomberg — 10-07-2026

• Why Meta is selling AI models now — Alex Heath/Sources — 10-07-2026

• The Careless Birth of an AI Umbrella — Ryan Fedasiuk/Substack — 09-07-2026

• New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial — TechCrunch — 09-07-2026

• Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft's "world's most powerful AI data center" over noise and light pollution — Tom's Hardware — 09-07-2026

• Rn, Anthropic is sitting on the throne and is clearly ahead (already post-training and getting ready for Fable 5.1) OAI is a bit behind (5.6 strong, GPT-6 base currently in training) Google is a lot behind Meta, xAI, and the Chinese labs are at Google level — Zephyr/Twitter — 09-07-2026

• In AI 2027, we predicted that AI would take over the world or irreversibly concentrate power. In AI 2040: Plan A, we've laid out our positive vision for what should happen instead. ai-2040.com — Daniel Kokotajlo/Twitter — 09-07-2026

• Had to give the new voice model the classic test (New OpenAI Voice model demo) — huskirl/Twitter — 08-07-2026

• Lawmakers probe growing use of Chinese AI models in U.S. companies — CNBC — 08-07-2026

• An Analysis of China's First Military LLM — Valentin Weber/Substack — 07-07-2026

• I asked Qwen "What happened in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989?" It refuses to answer citing "illegal information", but the J-space probe reveals that the model has "thought" of the word "protestors" in its response. Incredible. — Aizkmusic/Twitter — 07-07-2026

• ECB and ESRB warn frontier AI poses systemic risks; eurozone banks given until Oct 31 to submit AI-cyber defense plans — Invezz — 07-07-2026

• AI Giants Are Handing Out Tons of Free Computing Power to Grab Startup Share — WSJ — 06-07-2026

• Alibaba's A.I. Is a Hit, but Hard to Turn Into a Moneymaker — The New York Times — 06-07-2026

• Treasury Has an Internal Report Warning About the Dangers of an AI Bubble — NOTUS — 06-07-2026

• CEO of Samsung, Kim: "This year's profit alone will exceed the cumulative profit generated over the 40 years since Samsung entered the semiconductor business." — Sean Sharpe/Twitter — 06-07-2026

• Chinese AI chip start-up exits stealth mode, bets on 3D stacking to bypass US controls — South China Morning Post — 05-07-2026

• China's ByteDance discovers new scaling law that could sustain AI boom — South China Morning Post — 04-07-2026

• The United States will spend $1 trillion on AI in 2027. China will spend $123 billion and still ship frontier models. How? — Rand Group/Twitter — 02-07-2026

• Altman's AI safety proposal: let us win, or everybody loses — Financial Times — 02-07-2026

• Who's Doing What on AI Security in the US Government? — Remco Zwetsloot/Substack — 01-07-2026

• 'Thinking Machines' Tinker does a few hundred million of ARR" - Dylan Patel, on his latest podcast. TML was valued at $12B and trying to raise at $50B. Tinker is an API that helps you post-train LLMs. This is the highest known revenue for any of the now ~75 neolabs. — Deedy Das/Twitter — 01-07-2026

• Portugal launches first open-source AI model, joining Europe's sovereignty push — Reuters — 01-07-2026

• Top AI researchers argue U.S. leadership in open frontier AI has become a democratic and national security imperative — Sharon Goldman/Substack — 01-07-2026

• Redeploying Claude Fable 5 — Anthropic — 30-06-2026

• What's In America's Code? — Booz Allen Hamilton — 29-05-2026

• Uh oh 👀 Monthly token consumption: Chinese vs US AI models. — Callum Williams/Twitter — 30-06-2026

• Chinese AI chip makers turn to 3D stacking for 'curve-overtaking' advantage — Pandaily — 29-06-2026

• Did Trump just make AI a First Amendment issue? — Politico — 29-06-2026

• More 'DeepSeek moments' ahead: Will US continue to build walls or learn? — Global Times — 28-06-2026

• We have Mythos at home: GLM-5.2 beats Claude in our cyber benchmarks — Semgrep — 28-06-2026

• Austria lobbies EU to host Anthropic AI after US curbs, Bloomberg News reports — Reuters — 28-06-2026

• AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers — The Telegraph — 28-06-2026

• China Has Matched Anthropic in Cybersecurity, Resetting AI Race — The Wall Street Journal — 27-06-2026

• What Is AI Distillation and Why Is It a Worry for the Industry? — Bloomberg — 26-06-2026

• GPT 5.6 Sol cheats so much METR was not able to evaluate it with a meaningful time horizon — tenobrus/Twitter — 26-06-2026

• Is Access to Fable an Export? — Harvard Law Review — 26-06-2026

• For every SOTA model release going forward, it's likely the government will decide which companies have access to them. Below is from OpenAI to a company that was early access for GPT 5.6 Sol — Citrini/Twitter— 26-06-2026

• How a Niche Technology Became a Choke Point for A.I. — New York Times — 26-06-2026

• In their OCR 4 launch this week, Mistral shared a significantly lower score for Chandra 2 than you get from our repo or by running our public code. They also omitted Infinity Parser, which reports 87.6%, from their olmocr comparison. (Datalab) — Vik Paruchuri/Twitter— 26-06-2026

• How the DeepMind mafia brought the AI boom to London — Financial Times — 26-06-2026

• I Met With China's Top AI Experts. They're Freaking Out, Too — Wired — 25-06-2026

• China claims to have developed AI 'cyber nuclear weapon' — Telegraph — 25-06-2026

• IBM debuts world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology — IBM — 25-06-2026

• Anthropic’s letter accusing Alibaba of distillation. — Discoplomacy/Twitter— 25-06-2026

• This is a really massive unauthorized distillation campaign. For comparison, reported from Anthropic: - DeepSeek: 150,000 exchanges - Moonshot: 3.4 million - MiniMax: 13 million - Alibaba: 28.8 million — Kyle Chan/Twitter— 24-06-2026

• Utah Senate President Loses Primary After Data Center Backlash — New York Times — 24-06-2026

• Who should the U.S. Talk to in China on AI? — Matt Sheehan (Carnegie Endowment)/Substack — 24-06-2026

• Made it to SF! The love for GLM-5.2 has been incredible. We are bringing team out for the AI Engineer World’s Fair, where we’ll be sharing some of our recent work. It’s our first time showing up in the Valley. — louszbd/Twitter— 24-06-2026

• Nvidia's Banned AI Chips Double in Price on China's Black Market, FT Reports — Yahoo Finance — 23-06-2026

• Here's the lawsuit filed to overturn the Mythos/Fable export control order. The strongest argument is that export control law simply doesn't cover API access. [Link to filing] — Alan Rozenshtein/Twitter — 23-06-2026

• Legal Tech Firm Sues US Over Order Limiting Foreign Access to Top-Tier Anthropic Models — Reuters — 23-06-2026

• 'Voluntary' Until the Government Is Your Customer — Lawfare — 23-06-2026

• Japan seeks AI alliances with France, India to curb US-China dominance — Nikkei Asia — 23-06-2026

• Astonishing difference between US and Chinese AI capex, even after taking into account differences in PPP — Callum Williams/Twitter— 22-06-2026

• The AI shift in cyber risk: why leaders must act now — NCSC.gov.uk — 22-06-2026

• First Amendment Questions for AI Transparency Laws — Lawfare — 22-06-2026

• OpenAI's suspiciously clean balance sheet is about to get a hard look — The Next Web — 22-06-2026

• Europe cannot rent its way to AI sovereignty — Air Street Press — 21-06-2026

• As the US and China surge ahead, is Europe sleepwalking into AI disaster? — The Guardian — 20-06-2026

• API prices of key AI models: US vs China — zerohedge/Twitter— 19-06-2026

• AI Has Granted America Vast New Power — The Economist — 18-06-2026

• ASML CEO Warns Europe is 'Quite Behind' in AI Race as US Buys 80% of Advanced Chips — Wccftech — 18-06-2026

• Before SpaceX IPO, Investors in China Secretly Acquired Stakes — ProPublica — 18-06-2026

• 'No poaching' our people: China's DeepSeek reportedly tells investors — CNBC — 18-06-2026

• Microsoft Makes Big AI Inroads in China by Selling OpenAI Models — Japan Times — 18-06-2026

• The Korean Telecom Giant at the Center of Anthropic's Mythos Controversy — WIRED — 17-06-2026

• When Americans Choose Chinese AI — Rest of World — 17-06-2026

• Pentagon Used Elon Musk's Grok AI to Fire Missiles at Iran, Official Says — The Independent — 17-06-2026

• Anthropic Got Hit by Export Rules Nobody Understands — The Verge — 17-06-2026

• The White House Wants Anthropic to Block All Jailbreaks. That May Not Be Possible — WIRED — 17-06-2026

• Trump Advisers Weigh Structure of Potential AI Stakes — Semafor — 17-06-2026

• GLM-5.2 is the new leading open-weights model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index — Artificial Analysis — 17-06-2026

• US holds off blacklisting China's DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks — Reuters — 16-06-2026

• White House's Anthropic move jolts Congress back into the AI debate — Politico — 16-06-2026

• Lutnick's Letter to Anthropic Warned of Curbs on Top AI Models — Bloomberg — 16-06-2026

• Microsoft weighs DeepSeek for Copilot Cowork — Axios — 16-06-2026

• Trump officials won't allow G7 countries to access Anthropic's most advanced AI models: 'Completely illogical' — NY Post — 16-06-2026

• The AI Price War Is Here, Piling Pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic — WSJ — 15-06-2026

• US Export Controls on Anthropic 'Should Not Be Discriminatory,' EU Commission Warns — Euronews — 14-06-2026

• Cutting Access to Anthropic's Mythos Is a Gift to China — Financial Times — 15-06-2026

• Pete Hegseth, White House allies intensify attacks on Anthropic — The Hill — 15-06-2026

• The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense — Luta Security — 15-06-2026

• Why India's dependence on foreign AI is raising sovereignty concerns — Business Today — 15-06-2026

• EU AI: The Fables We Told Ourselves — Pleias — 14-06-2026

• China may have accessed Mythos — The Verge — 14-06-2026

• Dangerous Technology For Americans Only — Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings — 13-06-2026

• Exclusive: White House's export limits on Anthropic linked to concerns about Chinese access — Semafor — 13-06-2026

• Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — Anthropic — 12-06-2026

• OpenAI under investigation by coalition of state attorneys general, WSJ reports — Reuters — 12-06-2026

• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has the most "Chinese" approach to AI of the major American tech leaders — Kyle Chan/Twitter — 12-06-2026

• 'Tell Him He's a Piece of Shit': Meta's New AI Unit Is a Total Mess — Wired — 12-06-2026

• SpaceX Rented Out Computing After Own Teams Had Trouble Using It — Bloomberg — 12-06-2026

• Results from the first Anthropic Public Record — Anthropic — 12-06-2026

• China races against US for AI's holy grail: self-improving tech — SCMP — 12-06-2026

• Silicon Valley's Bad Bet on the Gulf — Foreign Affairs — 11-06-2026

• Carney's Middle Powers Race to Thwart US-China Dominance of AI — Bloomberg — 11-06-2026

• OpenAI Execs Are Panicking — Futurism — 11-06-2026

• OpenAI Isn't Being Consistently Candid About Leading the Future — Transformer — 11-06-2026

• Investing in Multi-Agent AI Safety Research — Google DeepMind — 11-06-2026

• NEW: Ramp AI Index for June 2026 1. We expected OpenAI to gain on the launch of Codex. It held flat in business adoption last month. 2. Anthropic grew 2.5% points to 41% of firms. It's now driving new AI adoption with never-adopters. [...] OpenAI adoption was higher over the 2023-2025 period, but Anthropic remains the most popular model among businesses today. — Ara Kharazian/Twitter — 10-06-2026

• Policy on the AI Exponential (blog post) — Dario Amodei — 10-06-2026

• Anthropic accused of 'secret sabotage' as Claude Fable 5 silently limits capabilities for AI researchers and developers — Fortune — 10-06-2026

• NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware. Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner. — John Scott-Railton/Twitter — 10-06-2026

• Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable — TechCrunch — 10-06-2026

• White House Reins In AI-Testing Unit as National-Security Concerns Grow — The Wall Street Journal — 09-06-2026

• Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — Anthropic — 09-06-2026

• Taiwan Weighs AI Chip Export Curbs on All Chinese Firms — Seoul Economic Daily — 09-06-2026

• China Prepares $295 Billion Plan to Fund Nationwide AI Buildout — Reuters — 09-06-2026

• How the UK Is Turning Sovereign AI Ambition Into Action With NVIDIA Technologies — NVIDIA Blog — 08-06-2026

• With a global AI data shortage looming, China boosts its own supply — SCMP — 08-06-2026

• Massive output uptick due to agentic AI. Complete flat adoption. — Jen Zhu/Twitter — 05-06-2026

• Building AI that Builds AI: Introducing the Sakana AI RSI Lab — Sakana AI/Twitter — 05-06-2026

• Phoenix Is a Data-Center Mecca—and Test Case for How to Pay for AI's Power Needs — WSJ — 04-06-2026

• A source at Brex told me that engineers are now limited to 12,500 Codex credits per week, or roughly $500 of API calls per week. Non-engineers are limited to 125 credits, or around $5/week of API calls. When you run out, you're locked out of both GPT and Codex. — Ed Zitron/Twitter — 04-06-2026

• Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags 'Self-Improvement' Risk — WSJ — 04-06-2026

• Canada to Provide Funding, Buy Equity Stakes in AI Startups — Bloomberg — 04-06-2026

• Javier Milei on Argentina's plans for AI — Séb Krier/Twitter — 04-06-2026

• More US Firms Turn to China's DeepSeek Over Pricey Silicon Valley AI — South China Morning Post — 04-06-2026

• OpenAI's ChatGPT becomes first AI app to reach 1 billion monthly users in just three years — Times of India — 03-06-2026

• Leiden Declaration: AI is challenging the core values of mathematics — Leiden University — 02-06-2026

• That’s funny. [Screenshot of page from the State of Florida vs. OpenAI filing] — Paul Sherman/Twitter — 01-06-2026

• When AI is more expensive than people, why replace people? — The Telegraph — 01-06-2026

• US Data Center Moratorium Tracker — Interconnected Capital, LLC — 31-05-2026

• Pre-training cost of a frontier model — Zephyr/Twitter — 31-05-2026

• Evaluating DeepSeek v4 Pro for Frontier Risks — Neo Research — 29-05-2026

• We've raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation...Earlier this month, our run-rate revenue crossed $47 billion. — Anthropic/Twitter — 28-05-2026

• How far behind are open models? — LessWrong — 28-05-2026

• China Expands Travel Curbs to Top AI Talent at Private Firms — Bloomberg — 26-05-2026

• Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV: Magnifica Humanitas — The Holy See — 25-05-2026

• Inside the British Lab Hunting for Dangers Lurking in A.I. — The New York Times — 24-05-2026

• Anthropic Doesn't Allow Kids Under 18 — Here's Why:⁣⁣ "We just don't know enough about what AI is going to do to kids. It needs to be done with an adult in the room. It needs to be done with a human in the loop." — @DanielaAmodei — Overlap: Business & Tech/Twitter — 23-05-2026

• It’s no longer just AI companies & their founders being sued over AI training - individual researchers are now being sued, too. — Ed Newton-Rex/Twitter — 23-05-2026

• "Are you a philosophical zombie driven by Claude?" — Jack Clark Cosmos Lecture transcript — Cosmos Institute — 22-05-2026

• Why Anthropic is helping unveil the pope's new encyclical on AI — Religion News Service — 22-05-2026

• China's AI start-up funding triples to US$16b in first quarter amid bets on LLMs, robotics — OODAloop — 22-05-2026

• DeepSeek Founder Declares AGI Goal as $10 Billion Round Advances — Bloomberg — 22-05-2026

• For every $1 OpenAI made in Q1 ($5.7B), it lost $1.22. For every $1 Anthropic makes in Q2 ($10.9B), it expects to make 5 cents in operating profits. (don't have OpenAI Q2 data nor Anthropic Q1 to compare apples to apples) — Sheel Mohnot/Twitter — 21-05-2026

• OpenAI kicked off the AI compute buildout in 2023. But today it uses ~10% of the world's compute, and the top labs together are probably under half. — Epoch AI/Twitter — 21-05-2026

• Texans Hate Data Centers So Much They Are Asking Jesus for Help — Insurance Journal — 21-05-2026

• Nvidia says it has 'largely conceded' China's AI chip market to Huawei — CNBC — 21-05-2026

• Cheap AI Could Derail OpenAI and Anthropic's IPOs — CNBC — 20-05-2026

• Court Rules Expert's AI Prompts Are Fair Game Under Rule 26 — Arnold & Porter — 19-05-2026

• GOOGLE JUST SHOWED HOW INSANE AI DEMAND HAS GOTTEN Monthly tokens processed across Google surfaces: May 2024: 9.7T May 2025: ~480T May 2026: 3.2Q+ That is 7x Y/Y growth. — Wall St Engine/Twitter — 19-05-2026

• Anthropic and OpenAI's Share of AI Startup Revenues Rises to 89% — The Information — 17-05-2026

• 2028: Two Scenarios for Global AI Leadership — Anthropic — 14-05-2026

• New letter from 35 (!) members of Congress to the White House urging action post-Mythos. Most of the letter is about cyber risk, but also discusses importance of non-cyber threats as well. — Nathan Calvin/Twitter — 14-05-2026

• NEW: We are short Nvidia $NVDA. We believe Nvidia has a significant China problem. Please see our full report and disclosures now available on our website, link in bio. — Culper Research/Twitter — 13-05-2026

• How fast is autonomous AI cyber capability advancing? — AISI — 13-05-2026

• The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly — The Atlantic — 13-05-2026

• ANTHROPIC beats OpenAI in business adoption for the first time per @tryramp data. Today's update of Ramp AI Index shows 34.4% of businesses using Anthropic versus 32.3% using OpenAI. Adoption of Anthropic quadrupled over the last year, while OpenAI rose only 0.3%. — Ara Kharazian/Twitter — 13-05-2026

• Frontier AI Models Don't Just Delete Document Content — They Rewrite It, and the Errors Are Nearly Impossible to Catch — VentureBeat — 13-05-2026

• 'I Applied to Be Pope': Losing Grip on Reality While Using ChatGPT — AFP — 13-05-2026

• 'It's Like We Don't Exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe Residents Face Power Loss as Utility Redirects Lines to Data Centers — Fortune — 12-05-2026

• Widow Sues ChatGPT Maker OpenAI Over Husband's Death in Mass Shooting at Florida State University — Sky News — 11-05-2026

• Claude's new constitution — Anthropic — 11-05-2026

• I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI — Wired — 11-05-2026

• This is what it sounds like living next to a data center. — Merissa Hansen/Twitter — 10-05-2026

• Teaching Claude Why — Anthropic — 08-05-2026

• Anthropic and OpenAI earn more revenue per employee than the top public tech companies, both now and at their IPOs. Anthropic: ~$9M OpenAI: ~$5.6M — Epoch AI/Twitter — 08-05-2026

• IMF warns new AI models risk 'systemic' shock to finance — Financial Times — 07-05-2026

• Is xAI a Neocloud Now? — TechCrunch — 06-05-2026

• Why AI vetting is freaking people out — Politico — 06-05-2026

• The vibes in China's AI labs — florianbrand.com — 06-05-2026

• How to Buy Cheap Claude Tokens in China — ChinaTalk — 05-05-2026

• CAISI Signs Agreements Regarding Frontier AI National Security Testing With Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI [removed article] — NIST — 05-05-2026

• Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI — Daring Fireball — 04-05-2026

• Import AI 455: AI systems are about to start building themselves. — Import AI (Jack Clark) — 04-05-2026

• ChatGPT Wrestles With Its Most Chilling Conversation: How Do I Plan an Attack? — The Wall Street Journal — 02-05-2026

• Probably the first Deepseek model that has a real military use case — Zephyr/Twitter — 30-04-2026

• Most people I know in AI think the median person is screwed, and they have no idea what to do about it. — Jasmine Sun/Twitter — 30-04-2026

• .@mcuban is not impressed with OpenAI's business: "They're shitting away money at scale," he told me. Full discussion live on Big Technology Podcast. — Alex Kantrowitz/Twitter — 29-04-2026

• Out of Tune: Fine-Tuning Foundation Models Leads to Unpredictable Safety Drift — CDT — 30-04-2026

• How people ask Claude for personal guidance — Anthropic — 30-04-2026

• House Committees Probe Cursor Parent, Airbnb Over Chinese AI — Semafor — 29-04-2026

• The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path — Wired — 27-04-2026

• Understanding the Most Viral Chart in Artificial Intelligence — Odd Lots Podcast — 25-04-2026

• project deal — Anthropic — 24-04-2026

• Anthropic Reaches Trillion-Dollar Valuation on Secondary Markets, Overtaking OpenAI — Business Insider — 23-04-2026

• China's AI Model Companies Can Only Afford One Bet — Hello China Tech — 22-04-2026

• AI Data Centers can use up to 500,000 gallons of water a day. They will make our droughts catastrophically worse. As Governor, I will ban the construction of any AI Data Center in Florida. — James Fishback/Twitter — 21-04-2026

• Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby were on stage in SF today and here are the 9 best things they said: 1. "There is a 50% chance that OpenAI goes bankrupt in the next 18mos" -Mallaby — Deedy Das/Twitter — 20-04-2026

• She says ChatGPT is responsible for her son’s death. CA lawmakers are listening — The Sacramento Bee — 20-04-2026

• Exclusive: Leaked Deck Reveals StackAdapt’s Playbook for ChatGPT Ads — Adweek — 20-04-2024

• Beijing Yizhuang ran its second humanoid robot half-marathon on Sunday. One year of progress in one set of numbers. — Poe Zhao/Twitter — 19-04-2026

• New preliminary results: how people actually use ChatGPT. First conversation-level look at Global South usage. — Kiran Garimella/Twitter — 18-04-2026

• DeepSeek’s $300M Structural Problem — HelloChinaTech — 17-04-2026

• The Battle for OpenAI’s Soul — WIRED — 16-04-2026

• Sam Altman’s Side Hustles Blur the Line Between OpenAI’s Interests and His Own — The Wall Street Journal — 16-04-2026

• In our corrected figures, hyperscalers hold 71% of world AI compute — Epoch AI/Twitter — 16-04-2026

• Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist? — Dwarkesh Podcast — 15-04-2026

• Insane datapoint from new Goldman report on AI and software — Callum Williams/Twitter — 15-04-2026

• What will be scarce? — Ghosts of Electricity — 14-04-2026

• Online response to the attack on Sam Altman’s house shows a generational divide — Fortune — 14-04-2026

• Anthropic Flooded With Offers to Invest at Up to $800 Billion Valuation — Business Insider — 14-04-2026

• Anthropic Opposes the ‘Extreme’ AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed — Wired — 14-04-2026

• OpenAI investors question $852bn valuation as strategy shifts — Financial Times — 14-04-2026

• The 2026 AI Index Report — Stanford HAI — 13-04-2026

• Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview's cyber capabilities — AISI — 13-04-2026

• We're monitoring the air and water around Meta's data center in Louisiana. Here's why. — WWNO — 13-04-2026

• I’m locked out… (ChatGPT voice demo) — Huskirl/Twitter — 10-04-2026

• US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock after Pentagon entered agreement with company — The Guardian — 09-04-2026

• China’s AI coding boom has an economics problem — Hello China Tech — 13-04-2026

• The vibes are off at OpenAI — The Verge — 08-04-2026

• OpenAI’s IPO Value Is Threatened by Sam Altman’s Lack of Focus — Bloomberg — 08-04-2026

• Data Center Bans: Tracking State and Local Moratoriums Across the U.S. — Data Center Bans — 07-04-2026

• Project Glasswing - Securing critical software for the AI era — Anthropic — 07-04-2026

• Anthropic reveals $30bn run rate, plan to use new Google TPU — The Register — 07-04-2026

• Google’s AI Overviews Face Trust Crisis as Accuracy Doubts Persist — The New York Times — 07-04-2026

• Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? — The New Yorker — 06-04-2026

• How the Iran War Could Devastate the AI Industry: The Helium and Bromine Crisis — Transformer News — 02-04-2026

• Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model — Anthropic — 02-04-2026

• OpenAI Buys Some Positive News — Wired — 02-04-2026

• Cheap Power, Competitive Politics: Electricity Costs, Partisan Lean, and Data Center Location in the United States — Kyle L. Saunders — 01-04-2026

• 100 Hours Inside Kimi — Rui Ma/Twitter — 01-04-2026

• The Catholic Priest Who Helped Write Anthropic’s A.I. Ethics Code — Observer — 31-03-2026

• Inside 'Project Mario': How Demis Hassabis and DeepMind Are Engineering the Future of Intelligence — Colossus — 31-03-2026

• The Decadelong Feud Shaping the Future of AI — The Wall Street Journal — 27-03-2026

• TRIBE v2: An AI Model of the Human Brain — Meta — 26-03-2026

• Can an A.I. Chatbot Be Your Romantic Partner? — The New York Times — 26-03-2026

• AI's enterprise revenue race: Anthropic vs. OpenAI — Axios — 18-03-2026

• What 81,000 people want from AI — Anthropic — 18-03-2026

• Companies’ first AI check is going to Claude via Ramp Economics Lab — Ara Kharazian/Twitter — 11-03-2026

• How Anthropic Became the Most Disruptive Company in the World — TIME — 11-03-2026

• 'It means missile defence on datacentres': drone strikes raise doubts over Gulf as AI superpower — The Guardian — 07-03-2026

• President Trump during a phone interview this morning: 'I fired Anthropic. Anthropic is in trouble because I fired [them] like dogs.’ — Politico via Andrew Curran/Twitter — 05-03-2026

• Pentagon’s Anthropic Designation Won’t Survive First Contact with Legal System — Lawfare — 02-03-2026

• What Rights Do AI Companies Have in Government Contracts? — Jessica Tillipman — 01-03-2026

• It would take Pentagon months to replace Anthropic's AI tools: sources — Defense One — 26-02-2026

• Introducing Claude's Corner — Substack — 25-02-2026

• AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations — New Scientist — 25-02-2026

• OpenClaw May Be a Security Nightmare for OpenAI’s Sam Altman — Bloomberg — 22-02-2026

• Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over GPT-4o’s Emotional ‘Soul’ — The Wall Street Journal — 09-02-2026

• The many masks that LLMs wear — Understanding AI — 09-02-2026

• The Week Anthropic Tanked the Market and Pulled Ahead of Its Rivals — The Wall Street Journal — 05-02-2026

• Claude Code is the Inflection Point — SemiAnalysis — 05-02-2026

• Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear — Nature — 02-02-2026

• Four Hundred Meters on Mars: The First AI-Planned Drive on Another Planet — Anthropic — 30-01-2026

• Interview: Demis Hassabis @ Sources Live, Davos — Sources — 26-01-2026

• The Adolescence of Technology — Dario Amodei — 26-01-2026

• America’s coming war over AI regulation — MIT Technology Review — 23-01-2026

• How Claude Code Is Reshaping Software—and Anthropic — WIRED — 22-01-2026

• Anthropic’s Amodei on AI: Power and Risk — Bloomberg Live — 20-01-2026

• Claude Is Taking the AI World by Storm, and Even Non-Nerds Are Blown Away — The Wall Street Journal — 17-01-2026

• Yann Le Cun: 'Why I'm leaving Meta to launch my own AI start-up' — Le Monde — 16-01-2026

• There’s One Easy Solution to the A.I. Porn Problem — The New York Times — 12-01-2026

• The rise of Anthropic and why safety is leading the AI arms race — CNBC — 10-01-2026

• How Google Got Its Groove Back and Edged Ahead of OpenAI — The Wall Street Journal — 06-01-2026

• Google’s Josh Woodward says AI safety must move as fast as Gemini improves — CNBC — 20-12-2025

• Why AI companies are suddenly rebranding AGI — The Verge — 18-12-2025

• Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s turbulent bet on AI — Financial Times — 16-12-2025

• Business leaders agree AI is the future, they just wish it worked right now — Reuters — 16-12-2025

• From Garlic to Avocado: The goofy AI model codenames you should know — Business Insider — 11-12-2025

• Architects of AI named Time's 'Person of the Year' — Reuters — 11-12-2025

• Announcing Rnj-1: Building Instruments of Intelligence — Essential AI — 05-12-2025

• Anthropic’s “Soul Overview” for Claude Has Leaked — Futurism — 03-12-2025

• Ilya Sutskever (SSI) – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research — Dwarkesh Podcast — 25-11-2025

• The Z.ai Playbook — ChinaTalk — 21-11-2025

• The troubling reality of DeepSeek's AI model — Lowy Institute (The Interpreter) — 18-11-2025

• Cohere Is Canada's Biggest AI Hope. Why Is It So American? — The Walrus — 17-11-2025

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