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White House Builds Ad Hoc AI Licensing Regime
The Trump administration's standoff with Anthropic over Claude Mythos and Fable 5 has crystallized into an ad hoc AI licensing regime, with other labs now offering the White House early model access t
OpenAI poaches DeepMind's Shazeer, adds ex-Trump AI
OpenAI is staffing up ahead of its IPO with two high-profile hires: Google DeepMind co-lead Noam Shazeer and former Trump White House AI policy official Dean Ball.
YC Spring 2026 Demo Day: 11 VC-Favorite Startups
Y Combinator's Spring 2026 Demo Day on Tuesday spotlighted 11 AI- and defense-heavy standouts, with VCs highlighting counter-drone startup 9 Mothers at a $200M+ valuation — potentially the most valuab
AWS plans to sell Trainium chips, challenging Nvidia
Amazon Web Services is exploring direct sales of its Trainium AI chips to third-party data center operators — a shift that would mark the cloud giant's most direct challenge yet to Nvidia's grip on AI
This robotic self-driving toilet comes to you
Yueban debuted the Xiaoban, an autonomous self-driving toilet that navigates to users with mobility issues, at a Shanghai elderly care expo, priced at roughly $4,300 in China.
FERC Orders Grid Fast Lane for Data Centers
FERC unanimously ordered six major grid operators to fast-track electricity connections for data centers, setting 30- and 60-day reporting deadlines, but stopped short of tackling the underlying short
Amazon Accused of Retaliating Over Data Center Testimony
Three Amazon software engineers filed a legal complaint with Seattle's Office for Civil Rights accusing the company of retaliating against them for testifying at City Council hearings in support of a
Dean Ball, ex-Trump AI adviser, joins OpenAI
Former Trump AI adviser Dean Ball, who helped shape the Trump administration's early AI policies, is joining OpenAI to lead a new team called Strategic Futures focused on frontier AI policy and intern
White House Ordered Anthropic to Cut SK Telecom Access
The White House ordered Anthropic to revoke South Korea's SK Telecom's access to its frontier AI models over alleged China ties, days before the company took its most advanced models offline, as Comme
General Intuition in Talks for $300M Raise at $2B
General Intuition, a New York startup building foundation models that train AI agents in spatial-temporal reasoning, is negotiating a roughly $300M round at a ~$2B valuation just eight months after it
Amazon in Talks to Sell Trainium AI Chips to Third
Amazon is in talks to sell its custom Trainium AI chips for use in third-party data centers, a potential expansion of the company's chip business beyond its own infrastructure.
Tech Workers' $5M PAC Takes On Big Tech's $100M AI
The Guardrails Alliance, a new super PAC backed by tech workers and labor unions, launched Thursday with roughly $5 million to counter the $100 million-plus anti-AI-regulation effort funded by OpenAI
Who decides when AI is too dangerous?
The Trump administration imposed export controls on Anthropic's newly released Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models, forcing both offline after an Amazon-flagged jailbreak triggered a 90-minute ultimatum. T
Adobe Embeds AI Assistant in Premiere, Illustrator
Adobe is rolling its AI assistant into multiple flagship creative apps — Premiere, Illustrator, and InDesign — extending the tool across its professional software suite.
Iqunix's $249 Ghost in the Shell Keyboard Is Wired-Only
Iqunix's officially licensed Ghost in the Shell EV63 keyboards pair '90s anime aesthetics with high-end Hall effect gaming hardware, selling for $249 — an $80 premium over the standard model.
Lutnick Takes Over White House AI Policy
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has emerged as the central figure in the Trump administration's AI policy apparatus after his export controls on Anthropic triggered the takedown of the company's Fab
VandeHei: Bad AI Writing Reflects User Laziness
Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei argues that bad AI writing reflects user laziness, not AI limitations, detailing how he trains Claude and ChatGPT Codex on his books and Axios columns to draft content in
G7 Leaders Warn U.S. Could 'Turn Off' Their AI
At the G7 Summit on Wednesday, Macron and Modi warned that the Trump administration's recent block on Anthropic's newest models shows the U.S. can 'turn off the switch' on allies' AI access overnight,
GLAAD: AI Is Failing LGBTQ Users, Risks Automating Bias
GLAAD released a report warning that AI systems are already causing disproportionate harm to LGBTQ people through bias and discrimination, and that increasingly autonomous AI agents risk automating th
CI/CD with Robert Erez
The Pragmatic Engineer's Gergely Orosz sits down with Octopus Deploy principal engineer Robert Erez to unpack modern CI/CD best practices — from rolling forward instead of back, to feature-flag hygien
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