Tech
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei spends 40% of his time on culture, not AI—including a biweekly ‘vision quest’ where he ditches ‘corpo speak’
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the most important thing he does each day has nothing to do with training AI models or shipping products. Instead, he spends almost half his time working on company culture, he said. “I probably spend a third, maybe 40%, of my time making sure the culture of Anthropic is good,”…
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Former AI czar calls Sanders’ proposal for government equity a ‘stupidity tax’ and warns against nationalization as Trump mulls public stakes
The Trump administration’s former AI czar sounded the alarm on giving the federal government equity stakes in top AI companies, while his former boss hinted favorably at the idea. In an X post on Friday, David Sacks said he’s not a fan of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ bill that would establish 50% government ownership in AI…
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Bernie Sanders and Sam Altman’s private one-hour meeting about the public ownership of AI
It was perhaps a surprising private overture from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to Sen. Bernie Sanders. The meeting between the two had come just after the Vermont senator announced a plan for the public to take a 50% ownership stake in artificial intelligence companies such as OpenAI, using their stock to create a public wealth…
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Chinese humanoid robots dominate the market with thousands shipped a year. But most are still performative rather than functional
Chinese-made humanoid robots are making waves with their ability to do backflips, direct traffic, and even make coffee as the companies developing them seek ways to expand and dominate the market. Robot makers in China say they have thousands of orders from both the government and private businesses for humanoids that can do such things as…
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Elon Musk bullet-proofed his $1 trillion ‘Mars-shot’ pay at SpaceX after the epic battle over his $56 billion moonshot at Tesla
Remember the legal brawl CEO Elon Musk faced over his $56 billion moonshot pay package at Tesla? As SpaceX prepares to go public in a $75 billion initial public offering next week, Musk is pushing the limits of his pay package into a whole other universe, and this time, he’s designed it so that he…
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The Class of 2026: Meet the 12 companies making their Fortune 500 debut
Making the Fortune 500 list is no small feat, yet every year a fresh group of companies elbows its way in by displacing incumbents and reshuffling the ranks of American corporate power. To make it on the list of the top 500 companies in the U.S. by revenue, a company has to meet strict requirements,…
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Anthropic warns AI could soon build itself without human involvement—and urges a global pause on development
Anthropic has published a new account of how quickly its AI models are advancing, warning that the technology may soon be capable of improving itself without meaningful human involvement. Just as the AI lab, valued at almost $1 trillion, prepares to go public, it’s also urging an industrywide pause in AI development. In the now-viral…
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Google forced to allow news sites to opt out of AI scraping in ‘world first,’ UK watchdog says
Google must allow news sites to opt out of having their online content scraped to feed AI overviews and other artificial intelligence services and features for British users, regulators said Wednesday. The Competition and Markets Authority said it was ordering Google to give online publishers the option, in what it called a “world first.” The…
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‘At some point you’ve got to make money’: Goldman’s top AI skeptic warns the clock is running out ahead of OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs
For two years, Jim Covello has been asking the same uncomfortable question: when does Wall Street’s AI bet actually pay off? The head of global equity research at Goldman Sachs raised the alarm in a widely read 2024 report, questioning whether the torrent of capital flooding into artificial intelligence would ever generate returns commensurate with the spending.…
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OpenAI CFO: Not knowing AI tools like Codex is now a dealbreaker for finance hires
Good morning. OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says AI tools like Codex are now becoming a baseline expectation in finance hiring, as the company works to secure enough computing power to meet rapidly rising demand. Speaking at the Liquidity Summit 2026 this week, Friar said the way OpenAI evaluates talent is changing alongside the technology it…