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Anthropic’s announcement that the Trump Administration ordered it to block foreign access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — prompting the company to completely cut off access to those AI models — sent a shock wave across the tech world.Here are some reactions on social media to the latest skirmish in the hostilities between the White House and Anthropic. Dean W. Ball Stephanie Augello/Getty Images for WIRED Dean W. Ball, senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation”If this is true, it is just baffling. An administration whose posture is that we should export advanced AI chips to China, which…
Disney is encouraging streaming staffers to embrace AI while warning against wasteful token usage.Streaming leaders at the Mouse House have recently been pushing employees to boost their velocity and productivity by using AI, two senior tech employees told Business Insider.”The No. 1 thing is to increase velocity,” or the pace of output, a high-level, AI-focused employee said.However, Disney doesn’t want its employees to be “tokenmaxxing,” Andre Rohe, Disney’s EVP of product engineering, said in a Wednesday meeting, according to two tech staffers in attendance. “Tokenmaxxing” refers to maximizing AI token usage, regardless of its impact on productivity.One software engineer shared…
If you work at SpaceX, or ever have, congratulations. You’re about to get very rich.On Friday, Elon Musk’s Space and AI company debuted on the public markets in the largest initial public offering in history, with the rocket company’s valuation surpassing $2 trillion.While mom-and-pop investors are just getting in on the action, SpaceX employees already have a piece. The company puts “heavy emphasis on equity compensation to provide employees with a financial stake in our business and an ownership mindset,” it said in its S-1 securities filing.For employees who have held on to their shares, it’s paid off. Andrew Benson,…
Nearly 25 years ago, a mariachi band played at a SpaceX party while Elon Musk posed for a photo. The rocket company’s head count was single digits back then. Today, it’s over 22,000.SpaceX started with two long-shot goals: make rockets cheaper to launch and, eventually, send mankind to Mars.More than two decades later, Elon Musk’s space company has decisively accomplished the first, and went public on Friday at a historic $1.8 trillion valuation. The trading milestone followed years of fiery explosions, reusable-rocket breakthroughs, astronaut flights, and the rise of Starlink, its golden goose satellite-internet business.From the scrappy startup days to…
Three US aerospace startups are in a high-stakes race to bring the “Jetsons'” dream of flying cars to life — and each has a different vision of what that future looks like.Aerospace companies Joby Aviation, Archer Aviation, and Beta Technologies have spent the past few years showcasing their flying taxi prototypes at industry events around the world. They’re pitching them as an environmentally cleaner, cheaper alternative to helicopters.I’ve seen all three — either on static display or in flight. I’ve gotten a glimpse of how these vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, or eVTOLs, could be used on a regular commute…
AI CEOs and tech leaders are trying to find the right way to talk about the labor market.Increasingly, they are moving beyond the sweeping statements about a white-collar job wipeout that may have fueled the growing AI backlash.”I’m delighted to be wrong about this,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at a recent event hosted by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. “I thought that there would have been more impact on entry-level white-collar work jobs being eliminated by now than it’s actually happened.”The OpenAI CEO said his views began to change when he briefly tried to let AI write emails and…
After eBay acquired PayPal in 2002, the PayPal mafia went on to reshape Silicon Valley. Now, after Musk’s blockbuster SpaceX IPO, employees and investors who made fortunes are expected to redeploy some of their massive windfalls into the new wave of space companies, many of them founded by the so-called SpaceX mafia.”Many of today’s leading technology investors and entrepreneurs, including Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and David Sacks, came out of the PayPal ecosystem and went on to shape the next generation of technology companies,” Justus Parmar, CEO of Fortuna Investments, a venture capital firm that invested in both SpaceX and…
Entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang has a theory about where the next wave of startup opportunity lies, and it starts with a question most founders aren’t asking: what if the business model was giving money back instead of extracting it? Yang was inspired by Mark Cuban. Not by his wealth, or his celebrity, but by Cost Plus Drugs — Cuban’s startup that sells pharmaceuticals at cost. Yang made a list. “Housing, education, food, fuel, transportation, media, and wireless,” Yang told TechCrunch on a recent episode of Equity. “The things we all spend money on.” He picked wireless and…
The U.S. government on Friday ordered Anthropic to immediately shut off access to two of its most powerful AI models — Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — citing national security concerns. Anthropic announced on X that it has complied, but it made clear it thinks the government got this one wrong. The directive, which Anthropic said it received on Friday at 5:21 pm ET, forces the company to disable both models for all users worldwide — not just the foreign nationals the government’s export control order was nominally aimed at. Access to Anthropic’s other models isn’t affected. Why…
Anyone who works at Meta or knows anyone who works at Meta will tell you the same thing: It is not a happy place, particularly given the seemingly endless layoffs the company has executed over the last few years — cuts that have only accelerated as the company funnels billions into AI. Now, a new report in Wired suggests the company’s Applied AI team is on the verge of revolt. The drama kicked off when someone hijacked a livestreamed, employee-only presentation this week with an expletive-laden meltdown, demanding that attendees tell a senior Meta AI executive that he was “a…