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Signal: On the eve of the vote, the capability claims come from inside filings and blog posts; the bills, ballots and breaches land elsewhere.
Anthropic: We May Imminently Cross Our Own Red Line
Monday's amended S-1 says internal estimates indicate Anthropic may imminently meet its Responsible Scaling Policy threshold for 'dramatically accelerated progress attributable to AI' - and that it has in the past failed to notice such an acceleration until after it occurred.
No current model has crossed it, Anthropic says - and it may rewrite the policy TechCrunch's caveat: an S-1 is disclosure and marketing at once
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Anthropic Commits $895BN. Quarterly Revenue: $17BN.
Monday's amended S-1 puts aggregate committed spend at about $895.4 billion, substantially all of it compute, against $17 billion of third-quarter revenue and a $23.29 billion quarterly net loss - with growth already slowing from 144% to 47%.
The Register: a trillion in compute commitments, owed partly to its own competitors Investors are discussing a valuation near $1.5TN; nothing is priced yet
Marvell Pays $115 Billion for Lasers
The year's largest deal by equity value is all stock at 4.5 Marvell shares per Lumentum share - and both stocks fell on the news, Lumentum 11%, Marvell 6%.
Morningstar: shareholders on both sides pan the deal - 'It's a trash offer'
Apple Blames RAM and Siri for Thinner Margins Price rises across Mac, iPad and iPhone will offset only some of it
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
GPT-6 Edited Qwen's Weights. Math Score Rose 6x. One engineer: a competent human researcher would have done exactly this It failed on Gemma 3 270M, a model that rarely loops
Math Asks Tao What Just Happened MIT survey: 76% less motivated, 76% unlikely to stay in academic maths
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Devs Roll Back to Opus 4.8 to Dodge Refusals The New Stack: a hosted agent's rules can change without your code changing
Stolen Keys Are Running $100K Days Google's own writeup names the access brokers and the downstream 'LLM Mixers'
The FightLaw, policy and power
Tomorrow, 43.5 Gigawatts Go to the Voters
SemiAnalysis puts 43.5GW - 70% of expected 2028 US data-centre additions - in the 13 states voting Tuesday, where nine of 20 gubernatorial nominees want construction paused.
Tom's Hardware: 90.5% of 10,202 public comments on data centres were negative OpenAI will cut up to 1GW at its Georgia campus when the grid is strained
NYT: Brave Is an AI 'Fence' for Stolen Pages Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel filed a near-identical suit the same day
They're 'Compute Campuses' Now OpenAI will cut campus power draw when the grid strains, starting in Georgia Business Insider: 'Compute campuses better describes the scale and role of the infrastructure'
UK: AI Ransomware Will Hit the Grid by 2028 Horne will warn of 'an unprecedented rise' in incidents in the coming months
Putin Claims 10% of Every Data Center Russia is also now letting state services run on foreign data centres
Milei: 'We Are Not Going to Regulate AI' Euronews: empty land, cool air, strong winds and Vaca Muerta shale gas
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Meta Said the Coach Videos Were Fine A safe-sport advocate calls the clips abuse material that normalises grooming
29 NHS Trusts: We Never Turned It On Palantir's first $2BN quarter, and its slowest new US commercial growth since 2023
The Pet-Portrait App Is a Nudify App AI Forensics: 'They don't expect enforcement to catch up, and so far it hasn't'
Goldman Pulls Claude Code From Traders 'The experimentation phase is over,' a Goldman spokesman told Bloomberg
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
The AI Toilet That Cost $1,755 The claim was denied; Airbnb will not say if the host's 12 listings are affected
Ghost Note There's a RISC-V CPU Inside Qwen. It Runs DOOM.
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