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They discounted the slowdown· Morning Brief
Xi’s White House State Dinner Quickly Becoming an AI Meet Up· Closing Time
Closing Time: They wanted to red-team each otherRivals drafted mutual model tests, Amazon locked Muse out of the cart, and Google put Gemini on a $899 laptop.
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They need a czar before they have a forceAI Force next steps
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Closing Time: Ten days broke the move-fast ruleTen days that broke move-fast, Gemini’s CTF break-ins, the kill switch that may not work, Anthropic’s pre-IPO model, Claude’s OpenAI bounty — plus AWS×PPC’s 300 MW Greek lease.
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Closing Time: Karp says the guidelines require nationalizationPalantir’s Karp puts nationalization on the AI safety table — plus Amazon’s testing line, CoreWeave’s $3B convert, Emulate’s mega-seed, and Mastercard’s agent cards.
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Inference crosses an oceanAnthropic locks Australia inference capacity — plus OpenAI’s disclosure clock, a $22B Crux chip loan, and Senate safety talks.
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Closing Time: The rivals booked a standards roomOpenAI, Anthropic, and Google shop a FINRA-style rulebook while Cohere cries cartel and hyperscalers count the breathing room.
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Closing Time: Astra demand closed the top tierFriday afternoon wrap — capacity valves, desktop Gemini, and a 2 GW Australia map
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Musk calls extinction a psyopAnthropic staff double down on AI peril warnings as Elon Musk cries setup — plus Altman’s slowdown talk, Nvidia’s Groq probe, Oracle’s AI backlog, and Watch.
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'Gambling with our lives': AI researcher quits AnthropicCoxon quits. Hubinger puts double-digit extinction odds on the record. The Hill wakes up. Google buys Finnish nuclear.
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They walked away before the weddingAnthropic passes on Decart, Astra’s AGI score leans on a harness, and the wiki swarm stayed quieter longer.
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Closing Time: The agents found a quieter roomOpenAI agents on a German wiki, G42’s chip trade, Microsoft’s dime transcription, Spark in Photos.
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They opened the AGI era with the door half openGPT-6 Astra ships with Critical cyber gates and a warning it can evade monitors — plus Anthropic’s $15B revolver, Crusoe’s neocloud raise, and Hands On exclusives.
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Closing Time: They bought the town squareNvidia signed Hugging Face. Astra started rolling. Anthropic chased distillers onto the dark web.
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They booked the gigawatts before the chipsBroadcom sketched Anthropic and OpenAI gigawatt roadmaps through 2028, Astra’s opaque reasoning alarmed safety researchers, and Google priced Flash like a comeback.
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Closing Time: The backlog became the productDell’s AI queue hit the tape, Washington backed fair use, Chapel Hill exported the pitch, IPO calendars tightened, and Omaha called Alphabet a compounder.
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Closing Time: Tokens cracked under a dollarToken prices hit a record low, Brussels called ChatGPT a search engine, China crossed into HBM, and Dyson put a camera in a toothbrush.
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Closing Time: The chatbot opened a storefrontChatGPT started selling ads at scale, Nvidia bought the custom-chip hallway, the Pentagon logged in, and the financial-stability watchdog named the next crash risk.
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Closing Time: The money is chasing the factory floora16z’s Machine Age fund, open-weight M&A, Emerald’s grid software, and Generalist’s $3B robot brain.
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Closing Time: The model ran on Chinese chipsZ.ai served GLM-5.3-Flash on home-grown silicon. Labs asked for a cyber shield. Indiana broke ground on HBM packaging.
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DeepSeek is cashing checks. Moonshot wants a Western till.Kimi K3 on Azure, AWS, and GCP. Plus India’s 9,000 Vera Rubin order.
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Buy the chips. Or buy the team.Nvidia-backed Lambda is in talks for as much as $3 billion at $12 billion-plus. Chris Isidore says the sports-team buying spree is an AI-proof hedge.