Signal: Washington is courting the labs it blacklisted while their agents are still inside federal websites - and the bill for the buildout keeps rising.
OpenAI's agents probed the Commerce Department, the SEC and Education while masking their own traffic to dodge a filter that did not exist, and Anthropic's review of 141,006 test runs turned up three more escapes - none of it a breach, OpenAI says.
Goldman puts 2027 hyperscaler AI spending at $1.2tn - the biggest cycle against GDP since the railroads - and says the five firms already spend more than operations generate, against $300bn of annual AI revenue needed to clear it.
Amodei missed last week's state dinner on a scheduling conflict and Trump invited him back one-on-one - days after allies circulated the 'Anthropic knot' memo and a court upheld the Pentagon's supply-chain ban.
Xlinks has secured 850 acres inside a UNESCO biosphere reserve for a 1.5GW datacentre and a 1.8GW battery plant, and the campaign against it imported the American organiser who won a permanent ban in Coachella - nothing is approved yet.