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September 2025 (Updated June 2026)
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• Exclusive: White House's export limits on Anthropic linked to concerns about Chinese access — Semafor — 13-06-2026
• How Amazon and the White House ended Anthropic's Fable — Axios — 13-06-2026
• 'Wake-up call': Europe reacts to Anthropic halting access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models — Euronews — 13-06-2026
• Anthropic's pre-IPO shares fall as US government shuts down Fable, Mythos models — CoinDesk — 13-06-2026
• Anthropic disables Fable and Mythos AI models after U.S. government bars it from giving foreigners access — Fortune — 13-06-2026
• Zuckerberg Admits Meta Made Mistakes as Its AI Unit Nears Revolt — Implicator.ai — 13-06-2026
• Amazon CEO's Talks With U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models — WSJ — 13-06-2026
• Amazon's Jassy Raised Concerns About Anthropic Model Before Trump Crackdown — The Information — 13-06-2026
• Sometimes it is hard to solve for the equilibrium — Marginal Revolution — 13-06-2026
• Anthropic Halts Access to Top AI Models After U.S. Ban on Foreign Use — WSJ — 13-06-2026
• Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — Anthropic — 12-06-2026
• Scoop: Trump admin blocks foreign access to Anthropic's most powerful AI — Axios — 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: - Very bullish on AI but not really AGI-pilled - Emphasizes integration of AI into everything, not just the best foundation models - Wants to see real ROI on AI use rather than just blind tokenmaxxing — Kyle Chan/Twitter — 12-06-2026
• Meta Bought Rivos to Accelerate Its AI Chip Push. It Isn't Working. — The Information — 12-06-2026
• 'Tell Him He's a Piece of Shit': Meta's New AI Unit Is a Total Mess — Wired — 12-06-2026
• AI TRENDS | Meta Plans Tighter Controls on Employee Token Use as AI Costs Rise — Binance — 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
• SpaceX (SPCX) IPO: Live updates — CNBC — 12-06-2026
• Google fires sueball at alleged Chinese phishers over AI-powered fraud ops — The Register — 12-06-2026
• Mistral in talks to raise at €20bn valuation, reports say — Sifted — 12-06-2026
• Nvidia begins Vera CPU sales pitch to Chinese clients — Reuters via Yahoo Finance — 12-06-2026
• Anthropic signs "more than a dozen" letters of intent for data center leases — Data Center Dynamics — 12-06-2026
• Facing US chip curbs, China launches photonics lab to power AI with light — SCMP — 12-06-2026
• China races against US for AI's holy grail: self-improving tech — SCMP — 12-06-2026
• Carney's Middle Powers Race to Thwart US-China Dominance of AI — Bloomberg — 11-06-2026
• Elon Musk is the World's First Trillionaire (on Paper) Thanks to the SpaceX IPO — Washington Post — 11-06-2026
• My AI Opinions — Astral Codex Ten — 11-06-2026
• OpenAI Execs Are Panicking — Futurism — 11-06-2026
• Warren Introduces Bill Requiring AI Exposure Disclosures — Investing.com — 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
• Introducing Claude Corps — Anthropic — 11-06-2026
• OpenAI to Acquire Cloud Platform Ona to Support AI Agents — Bloomberg — 11-06-2026
• Nvidia Teams Up With Abridge to Build AI Model for Clinical Conversations — Yahoo Finance — 11-06-2026
• Apollo Is Screening All Software Investments for AI Threat Risk — Bloomberg — 11-06-2026
• Crusoe Pushed Aside at Wyoming AI Project After Google Concerns — Bloomberg — 11-06-2026
• TCS and Anthropic Launch Global Premier Partnership to Drive Enterprise AI Scaling — TCS — 11-06-2026
• India's Workers Are Training AI Robots to Take Their Jobs — Al Jazeera — 11-06-2026
• Alibaba's DingTalk Chief Departs After Debate About AI Focus — Bloomberg — 11-06-2026
• Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have 'Sabotaged' AI Researchers Using Claude — Wired — 10-06-2026
• OpenAI Considers Drastic Price Cuts, Anticipating War for Users With Anthropic, WSJ Reports — Reuters — 10-06-2026
• SoftBank's Attempt to Get $6 Billion OpenAI Margin Loan Stalls, Bloomberg News Reports — Reuters — 10-06-2026
• "The costs of token are far higher than the actual value that these tokens are generating at scale," @Cisco's @jpatel41 tells @ReedAlbergotti. "The big risk in the market is, if you don't create an equilibrium there, then people just pull back on using tokens." — Semafor/Twitter — 10-06-2026
• xAI Fired an Engineer Who Raised Alarms About Grok Safety, New Lawsuit Claims — TechCrunch — 10-06-2026
• OpenAI Says a Suspected China-Linked Influence Operation Tried to Sway the Debate About US Data Centers — Business Insider — 10-06-2026
• 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
• ai pilled companies spending $90k / employee per year [...] per employee, not per engineer. where does this go in a year!? can't wait to find out... from ramp's dataset (70k companies). — Rex Salisbury/Twitter — 10-06-2026
• Policy on the AI Exponential (policy document) — Anthropic — 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
• Citadel, is one of the most significant hedge funds, and they just dropped tokenomics … — Mo Shaikh/Twitter — 10-06-2026
• Visa, OpenAI bring agentic commerce to ChatGPT — Axios — 10-06-2026
• German Court Holds Google Liable For False AI Overview Answers — Engadget — 10-06-2026
• Today, the Stanford @DigEconLab launches the AI Economic Indicators, a new platform for tracking how AI is reshaping work, productivity, adoption, and the economy. — Erik Brynjolfsson/Twitter — 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
• OpenAI Expects to Go Public 'Within the Next Year,' The Information Reports — The Star — 10-06-2026
• Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable — TechCrunch — 10-06-2026
• Anthropic CEO Doesn't Know If Claude Used in Iran School Strike — Bloomberg — 10-06-2026
• OpenAI in talks to lease 10GW data center from SB Energy in Ohio — Data Center Dynamics — 10-06-2026
• Microsoft's AI chief says Anthropic should stop claiming Claude is conscious — Digit (via The Verge) — 10-06-2026
• SpaceX IPO Draws Billions in Orders From Middle Eastern Funds — Bloomberg — 10-06-2026
• China issues three-year plan to boost AI integration with information, communications sector — Xinhua — 10-06-2026
• China Healthcare Stocks Fall to Record Low Valuation on AI Drain — Bloomberg — 10-06-2026
• Yann LeCun: World Models: Enabling the Next AI Revolution — YouTube — 09-06-2026
• SpaceX IPO explained: The price is set, but retail allocation still up in the air — CNBC — 09-06-2026
• Meta partners with Reliance to lease AI-powered data center in India — Crypto Briefing — 09-06-2026
• OpenAI weighs leasing Ohio data center with Nvidia backing, The Information reports — Reuters — 09-06-2026
• Anthropic's Fable 5 can make weirdly fun video games with the click of a button — TechCrunch — 09-06-2026
• Google Just Fired a Warning Shot in the AI Subscription Price Wars — TechCrunch — 09-06-2026
• Fluid, natural voice translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate — Google Blog — 09-06-2026
• Anthropic and OpenAI spark new race for frontier AI access — Axios — 09-06-2026
• White House Reins In AI-Testing Unit as National-Security Concerns Grow — The Wall Street Journal — 09-06-2026
• Musk's xAI, SpaceX Hit With Class Action Over Data Center 'Nuisance' — Reuters — 09-06-2026
• Musk's xAI Taps Starlink Staffer to Run Grok Training Team — Bloomberg — 09-06-2026
• Introducing North Mini Code: Cohere's First Model for Developers — Cohere — 09-06-2026
• N.C. Owns $650M in Claude Owner Anthropic, Briner Says — Business North Carolina — 08-06-2026
• White House Negotiating Federal Preemption of State AI Laws in Exchange for Hill Priorities — The Hill — 09-06-2026
• System Card: Claude Fable 5 & Claude Mythos 5 — Anthropic — 09-06-2026
• Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — Anthropic — 09-06-2026
• China Puts AI on the Phone Bill — Hello China Tech — 09-06-2026
• Meta Will Use Your Activity on Other Websites to Personalize Your Feeds — The Verge — 09-06-2026
• Anthropic Says Mythos Is Too Dangerous for the Public. It Just Gave 150 More Organisations Access — The Next Web — 09-06-2026
• JPMorgan Chase Plans to Deploy More Powerful AI Agents This Year — CNBC — 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
• Sources: Anthropic is planning to release a public version of Mythos tomorrow - Will have substantial guardrails and not be as cyber permissive as what Project Glasswing partners can access - Will be dramatically better at long-horizon, multi-turn tasks — Alex Heath/Twitter — 08-06-2026
• Databricks in Talks to Raise at Above $165 Billion Valuation — The Information — 08-06-2026
• CIO Weekly: To Infinity And Beyond… SpaceX's IPO — Seeking Alpha — 08-06-2026
• Apollo and Blackstone Raise $35bn in Chip Financing Deal for Anthropic — Financial Times — 08-06-2026
• OpenAI Filed Confidentially for IPO as Rivals Race to Market — Bloomberg — 08-06-2026
• Craig Federighi Details Apple's Collaboration with Google for Siri AI in iOS 27 — 9to5Mac — 08-06-2026
• Due to DMA, Siri AI delayed in EU for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 — Apple — 08-06-2026
• Trump's Plan to Meet With AI Companies Was News to AI Companies — NOTUS — 08-06-2026
• AI Economics Institute (AIEI) – Prospectus — GOV.UK — 08-06-2026
• Anthropic Says Mythos Can Turn Software Patches Into Exploits in Minutes — Axios — 08-06-2026
• Inside Altman's Pitch on Government AI Stake — Semafor — 08-06-2026
• We Must Not Grant AI Agents Legal Personhood — Financial Times — 08-06-2026
• Corporate America Is Experiencing AI Sticker Shock — New York Magazine — 08-06-2026
• Apple WWDC 2026 Live: Siri rebuilt on Google Gemini, with Extensions for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini as user-selectable AI providers — Tom's Guide — 08-06-2026
• How the UK Is Turning Sovereign AI Ambition Into Action With NVIDIA Technologies — NVIDIA Blog — 08-06-2026
• Starmer Positions Government as Active Partner in Britain's AI Future — Computing.co.uk — 08-06-2026
• With a global AI data shortage looming, China boosts its own supply — SCMP — 08-06-2026
• China's Moonshot AI Seeks $30 Billion Value in New Funding Talks — Bloomberg — 07-06-2026
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• 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
• 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
• US Data Center Moratorium Tracker — Interconnected Capital, LLC — 31-05-2026
• 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
• NEW: We are short Nvidia $NVDA. We believe Nvidia has a significant China problem. — 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
• 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
• Global LLM Adoption and Revenue Snapshot, Q1 2026 — Counterpoint Research — 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
• What will be scarce? — Ghosts of Electricity — 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
• 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
• Project Glasswing - Securing critical software for the AI era — Anthropic — 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
• Inside 'Project Mario': How Demis Hassabis and DeepMind Are Engineering the Future of Intelligence — Colossus — 31-03-2026
• What 81,000 people want from AI — Anthropic — 18-03-2026
• How Anthropic Became the Most Disruptive Company in the World — TIME — 11-03-2026
• What Rights Do AI Companies Have in Government Contracts? — Jessica Tillipman — 01-03-2026
• Introducing Claude's Corner — Substack — 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
• Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear — Nature — 02-02-2026
• Claude Is Taking the AI World by Storm, and Even Non-Nerds Are Blown Away — The Wall Street Journal — 17-01-2026
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Frontier AI Labs
A curated listing of known frontier AI labs (in progress).
Considerations for inclusion:
- Teams training the largest models by compute
- Teams publishing frontier research
- Teams operating with independent safety/governance controls
• Ai2: The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence — https://allenai.org — Seattle, USA — Develops foundational AI research through large-scale open models, data, robotics, conservation, and beyond.
➟ https://allenai.org/careers
➟ LinkedIn: /company/allen-ai/
➟ Twitter: @allen_ai
• AI21 Labs — https://www.ai21.com — Tel Aviv, Israel — Developer of large language models and long-context NLP tooling for writing and knowledge work.
➟ https://www.ai21.com/careers/
➟ LinkedIn: /company/ai21/
➟ Twitter: @AI21Labs
• Alibaba DAMO Academy — https://damo.alibaba.com/ — Hangzhou / Beijing, China — Alibaba’s advanced R&D institute focused on large models, cloud AI, and applied industrial research.
➟ https://joindamo.alibaba.com/
➟ LinkedIn: /company/达摩院/
• Alibaba Tongyi Lab — https://qwenlm.github.io/ — Hangzhou, China — Tongyi Lab was created within Alibaba Cloud to focus on foundational research and industrial applications of large models such as the Qwen (通义千问) series (including Qwen open source models), Tongyi Wanxiang (image generation), Tongyi Tingwu (speech-to-text), and more.
➟ https://careers-tongyi.alibaba.com/
➟ LinkedIn: /company/qwen/
➟ Twitter: @Ali_TongyiLab
• Anthropic — https://www.anthropic.com/ — San Francisco, USA — Anthropic is an AI safety and research company dedicated to building reliable, steerable, and beneficial AI systems like its assistant, Claude and the Opus and Sonnet model families.
➟ https://www.anthropic.com/careers
➟ LinkedIn: /company/anthropicresearch/
➟ Twitter: @AnthropicAI
• Baidu Research — https://research.baidu.com/ — Beijing, China — Baidu’s research arm developing ERNIE and other large-scale multimodal models and search AI.
➟ https://research.baidu.com/career
➟ Twitter: @BaiduResearch
• Black Forest Labs — https://bfl.ai/ — Germany & San Francisco, USA — A leading frontier AI research lab, building the visual infrastructure for tomorrow.
➟ https://bfl.ai/careers
➟ LinkedIn: /company/bflai/
➟ Twitter: @bfl_ml
• Cohere — https://cohere.com/ — Toronto, Canada & San Francisco, USA — Provides enterprise large-language models, embeddings, and retrieval APIs for production use.
➟ https://cohere.com/careers
➟ LinkedIn: /company/cohere-ai/
➟ Twitter: @Cohere_Labs
• Databricks Mosaic — https://www.databricks.com/research/mosaic — San Francisco, USA — Focuses on efficient training tooling, open-model research, and infrastructure for training large models.
➟ https://www.databricks.com/company/careers
➟ LinkedIn: /company/mosaicml/
➟ Twitter: @MosaicML
• Deep Cogito — https://www.deepcogito.com/ — San Francisco, USA — An AI lab that describes itself as building open source general superintelligence.
➟ https://www.deepcogito.com/careers
➟ LinkedIn: /company/deep-cogito/
➟ Twitter: @DeepCogito
• DeepSeek — https://www.deepseek.com/ — Hangzhou, China — A Chinese lab working on frontier large language models.
➟ https://www.deepseek.com/ (check LinkedIn for open roles)
➟ LinkedIn: /company/deepseek-ai/
➟ Twitter: @deepseek_ai
• EleutherAI — https://www.eleuther.ai/ — Distributed / community-led — Open research collective that produces open-source LLMs, benchmarks, and tooling.
➟ No official careers page; roles announced via Discord/X
➟ LinkedIn: /company/eleutherai/
• Essential AI — https://www.essential.ai/ — San Francisco, USA — Essential AI is building an open platform to democratize frontier AI capabilities and accelerate breakthroughs globally through collaborative science.
➟ https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/essentialai
➟ LinkedIn: /company/essentialai/
➟ Twitter: @essential_ai
• Google DeepMind — https://deepmind.google/ — London, UK & Mountain View, USA / global — Google-owned research lab focused on deep learning, RL, and ambitious science-level AI research.
➟ https://deepmind.google/about/careers/
➟ LinkedIn: /company/googledeepmind/
➟ Twitter: @GoogleDeepMind
• Hugging Face — https://huggingface.co/ — New York, USA & Paris, France / global — Open ML community and model/dataset hub that hosts and distributes many open frontier models and tooling.
➟ https://apply.workable.com/huggingface/
➟ LinkedIn: /company/huggingface/
➟ Twitter: @huggingface
• IBM Research — https://research.ibm.com/artificial-intelligence — USA / global — IBM Research develops open-source data tools, multimodal models, and technologies that redefine how we interact with AI.
➟ https://www.ibm.com/careers/research
➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/ibm-research/
➟ Twitter: @IBMResearch
• Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab — http://dev3.noahlab.com.hk/ — China (multiple locations) — Huawei’s foundational AI research group working on NLP, vision, and multimodal algorithms.
➟ http://dev3.noahlab.com.hk/Recruitment-JD.html
➟ LinkedIn: /company/noah-s-ark-lab/
• Meta FAIR — https://www.meta.ai/ — Menlo Park, USA — Meta’s research division that develops Llama-series models, multimodal systems, and social-scale AI research.
➟ https://ai.meta.com/join-us/
➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/aiatmeta/
➟ Twitter: @AIatMeta
• Meta Reality Labs (Reality Labs Research) — https://www.meta.ai/ — Menlo Park, USA — Meta’s XR / AR / VR research and hardware arm that also contains significant AI work for spatial computing, sensors, and on-device models.
➟ https://ai.meta.com/join-us/
➟ Twitter: @RealityLabs
• Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) — https://www.meta.ai/ — Menlo Park, USA — Meta's Superintelligence labs is a newly formed unit as of Summer 2025 focused on superintelligence and large-scale foundational efforts.
➟ https://ai.meta.com/join-us/
• Meta TBD Lab — https://www.meta.ai/ — Menlo Park, USA — As of Summer 2025, the TBD team is spearheading work on upcoming model releases including the newest version of Llama, the extension of models’ reasoning capabilities, and development of AI agents alongside other Meta teams per the Wall Street Journal.
➟ https://ai.meta.com/join-us/
• Microsoft Research AI Frontiers / Microsoft AI — https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/lab/ai-frontiers/ — Redmond, USA / global — Corporate research organization powering Microsoft’s model efforts (Copilot, Azure AI, and foundational research).
➟ https://www.microsoft.com/research/careers/
➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/microsoftresearch/
➟ Twitter: @ms_aifrontiers
• Mistral AI — https://mistral.ai/ — Paris, France / global — European startup producing high-performance LLMs and commercial offerings for enterprises.
➟ https://mistral.ai/careers
➟ LinkedIn: /company/mistralai/
➟ Twitter: @MistralAI
• Moonshot AI — https://moonshot.ai/ — Beijing, China — Focused on achieving the most efficient conversion of energy into intelligence to create artificial general intelligence that can benefit all of humanity.
➟ https://www.moonshot-ai.com/careers/
➟ LinkedIn: /company/moonshot-ai-linkedin/
➟ Twitter: @Kimi_Moonshot
• Nous Research — https://nousresearch.com/ — New York, USA — Nous Research focuses on the development of human-centric language models and simulators.
➟ https://nousresearch.com/careers/
➟ LinkedIn: /company/nous-research/
➟ Twitter: @NousResearch
• NVIDIA Research — https://research.nvidia.com/ — Santa Clara, USA — Research group advancing GPU-driven systems, model architectures, and scale innovations used across frontier labs.
➟ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/research/research-scientists/
➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/nvidia-ai/
➟ Twitter: @NVIDIAAI
• OpenAI — https://openai.com/ — San Francisco, USA — OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company building safe and broadly beneficial artificial general intelligence to help solve humanity's greatest challenges.
➟ https://openai.com/careers/
➟ LinkedIn: /company/openai/
➟ Twitter: @OpenAI
• PleIAs — https://pleias.fr/ — Paris, France — PleIAs builds energy-efficient, open-data foundation LLMs and explainable, locally deployable AI assistants for information-intensive, highly regulated industries.
➟ LinkedIn: /company/pleias/
➟ Twitter: @pleiasfr
• Prime Intellect — https://www.primeintellect.ai/ — San Francisco, CA — The Open Superintelligence Stack. A compute and infrastructure platform for you to train, evaluate, and deploy your own agentic models.
➟ https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/PrimeIntellect
➟ LinkedIn: /company/primeintellect-ai/
➟ Twitter: @PrimeIntellect
• Reflection AI — https://reflection.ai/ — NYC & San Francisco, USA — Reflection is building frontier open intelligence with open weight models that are accessible to all.
➟ https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/reflectionai
➟ LinkedIn: /company/reflectionai/
➟ Twitter: @reflection_ai
• Safe Superintelligence Inc. — https://ssi.inc/ — Palo Alto, USA & Tel Aviv, Israel — The world’s first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.
➟ https://ssi.inc/contact
➟ LinkedIn: /company/ssi-ai/
➟ Twitter: @ssi
• Sakana AI — https://sakana.ai/ — Japan — Building a world-class AI lab in Japan to develop AI solutions for Japan’s needs, and democratize AI in Japan.
➟ https://consider.com/boards/co/sakana-ai
➟ LinkedIn: /company/sakana-ai
➟ Twitter: @SakanaAILabs
• Samsung Research (AI Centers) — https://research.samsung.com/ — Seoul, Korea / global — Samsung’s research hubs focused on generative AI, on-device models, and multimodal systems.
➟ https://research.samsung.com/careers
➟ LinkedIn: /showcase/samsungresearch/
➟ Twitter: @samsungresearch
• Stability AI — https://stability.ai/ — London, UK — Open-source focused generative AI company that releases image, video, audio, and 3D multimodal models and tooling.
➟ https://stability.ai/careers
➟ LinkedIn: /company/stability-ai/
➟ Twitter: @StabilityAI
• Tencent AI Lab / Tencent HY — https://ailab.tencent.com/ailab/en/index/ — Shenzhen, China — Tencent’s AI research organization developing large models, multimodal AI, and application-focused research.
➟ https://ailab.tencent.com/ailab/en/recruit/
• Thinking Machines Lab — https://thinkingmachines.ai/ — San Francisco, USA — A research and product company building more understandable and customizable AI systems.
➟ https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/thinkingmachines
➟ LinkedIn: /company/thinkingmachinesai/
➟ Twitter: @thinkymachines
• xAI / SpaceXAI — https://x.ai/ — Palo Alto, USA — Elon Musk–backed AI lab building the Grok family of large-scale language models and consumer-facing assistants.
➟ https://x.ai/careers
➟ LinkedIn: /company/xai/
➟ Twitter: @xai
• Yandex Research / Yandex AI — https://research.yandex.com/ — Moscow, Russia — Yandex’s research teams working on large models, search AI, and multimodal systems.
➟ https://research.yandex.com/join
➟ LinkedIn: /company/yandex/
➟ Twitter: @YandexResearch
• Z.ai — https://z.ai/ — Beijing, China — Z.ai (Zhipu AI) is the AI lab behind the GLM family of models, dedicated to inspiring the development of AGI to benefit humanity.
➟ https://www.zhipuai.cn/joinus
➟ LinkedIn: /company/zdotai/
➟ Twitter: @Zai_org
