Anthropic Is Teaching CEOs Everywhere a Valuable Lesson

America’s artificial intelligence titans recently banded together to urge the government not to restrict so-called open-weight AI models, or those that are publicly available for users to freely download and run on their own platforms, so that they can better compete with the ones coming out of China. All the usual suspects - Nvidia Corp., OpenAI and Google-parent Alphabet Inc. - were on board with one exception: Anthropic PBC.

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Elon Musk Surprisingly Doesn't Understand Abundance

Elon Musk, the world’s first trillionaire, told The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minto Beddoes in a recent interview that money won’t matter in 2036. He invoked a Star Trek-like future where robots and artificial intelligence will make us so wealthy that work will become a hobby like gardening and not a necessity. We’ve seen such predictions before, and we don’t have to read science fiction to know what people who don’t have to work are like. Abundance can abolish want. It can’t abolish the h

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AI Can Create Start-Ups, Just Not Good Ones

The US Census Bureau said July 9 that it received 531,423 business applications in June on a seasonally adjusted basis, capping what was for the first half of the year the highest sustained rate of such applications in the 22-year history of the series. The surge is being interpreted as the first real evidence of an AI-driven entrepreneurial boom. Not necessarily. Artificial intelligence has made the mechanics of starting a business nearly free, and the mechanics were never the barrier that matt

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AI Has No Future Without Credible Regulation

A Supreme Court ruling and an outbreak of explosive diarrhea seem to have nothing in common, and certainly nothing to do with artificial intelligence. But they’re a warning to the AI industry about the danger of getting exactly what it wished for.

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Regulate AI Like We Do the Airline Industry

The heads of America’s three leading artificial intelligence companies -- Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, Sam Altman of OpenAI, and Dario Amodei of Anthropic PBC -- agree on almost nothing, except that in the last few weeks all three have argued that the AI frontier needs regulation, in part because of frontier models' potential to increase the risks from biological weapons. Then, on Thursday, a Chinese company called Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open-weight model whose 2.8 trillion param

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Maine Fell for the Trap of the Charming Outsider

Beware Charming Outsiders. (Looking at You, Maine)

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Sam Altman Offers a Trojan Horse to American Taxpayers

Sam Altman just offered the US - meaning every American - $42.6 billion. (Not each, sadly). He said giving the government a 5% stake in the company he runs, OpenAI, is the best way to ensure that Americans shared in the promised bounty from artificial intelligence. Before the Trump administration takes him up on the offer, it should organize a group trip to see Christopher Nolan’s new movie The Odyssey, whose opening act is the most famous gift in Western literature: a giant wooden horse, wheele

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Ford Mistook AI for a Quick Fix. It's Not Alone

On a Sunday in August 1965, the Beatles walked onto a stage at New York’s Shea Stadium and played for 55,600 ecstatic fans - who never heard a note. The screaming from the audience was so loud that the Fab Four couldn’t even hear each other. The greatest band of all time might as well have forgotten their guitars. That concert explains a lot about how American business is handling artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, its leaders aren’t the geniuses on stage, they’re the screaming teenagers in

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AI Is Power-Hungry in That Other Way, Too

The most recent G7 summit included the leaders of seven of the most powerful countries in the world — and executives from OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepMind, who were treated like peers. AI companies might seem like they’re fighting over only product and market share, but they’re playing a much bigger game: This is a struggle for power at the highest levels.

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What Companies Adapting to AI Can Learn From the Plague

On June 11, security researchers showed how to subvert OpenClaw, one of the most widely used AI agents. Instructions hidden in something as ordinary as a shared contact or a pinned location could make the agent run an attacker’s code and hand over its secrets. One flaw has been patched. The other could not be, because it was inherent in how the agent works.

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Trillionaires and Republics Will Be a Toxic Mix

SpaceX’s initial public offering made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. You might think there’s not much you can buy with a hundred (or a thousand) billion dollars that you can’t buy with one billion dollars. But there is: Absolute power.

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AI Will Steal Your Motivation If You Let It

The New York Times on Monday told the story of Sidharth Hariharan, a mathematics graduate student at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University who spent more than two years helping translate one of the past decade’s most celebrated proofs into a form a computer could check, a painstaking task called formalization. Earlier this year an artificial intelligence system called Gauss, built by the startup Math Inc., finished the job in five days. Hariharan rushed into his adviser’s office in tears. He a

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AI Leaders Are Cosplaying James Bond Villains

Shark Tank impresario Kevin O’Leary wanted to build data centers on 40,000 acres in rural Box Elder County, Utah, a parcel of land more than twice the size of Manhattan. A Deseret News-Hinckley Instit...

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AI Leaders Are Cosplaying James Bond Villains

Shark Tank impresario Kevin O’Leary wanted to build data centers on 40,000 acres in rural Box Elder County, Utah, a parcel of land more than twice the size of Manhattan. A Deseret News-Hinckley Institute of Politics poll found most Utah voters opposed the plan, with almost 85% of Democrats, a majority of independents and fewer than half of Republicans in favor. They have deluged Utah’s Republican governor, Spencer Cox, with letters, rallied at the state Capitol with signs reminding him that shar

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Uber's AI Doubts Are Just Normal Growing Pains

Uber Technologies Inc. President Andrew Macdonald said on the Rapid Response podcast a few days ago that the company could not connect increased use of artificial intelligence coding tools to a return on investment. AI critics have trumpeted this and similar statements about runaway costs as evidence the AI bubble is popping and that its projected impact is vastly overrated. Yet on Thursday, Anthropic PBC raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation, which would be hard to justify for a techno

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The C-Suite Throws Corporate Governance Out With the Garbage

Elon Musk, who already owns about 42% of SpaceX, will have 85% voting control following the company’s initial public offering. Documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission lay out some rare terms. Musk will simultaneously be chairman of the board, chief executive officer and chief technology officer. He appoints most of the board’s directors. He cannot be fired. Because SpaceX filed for “controlled company” status under Nasdaq rules, it will even be exempt from the requirement tha

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The Desperation of AI Titans Is an Ominous Sign

The need for compute makes strange bedfellows. On May 6, just a few months after Elon Musk called Anthropic PBC “misanthropic and evil,” he agreed to lease the entire capacity of SpaceX’s Memphis data...

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