Executive Editor @theinformation. amir @ https://xitter.cf/t.co/XVwTW5v1ka amir.62 on Signal
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🚨big news y'all: Nvidia agrees to take Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. More details below
👀news about the neocloud liquidity & credit crisis:
Nvidia in talks to invest many hundreds of millions of dollars in Firmus, which just pulled its IPO
new: @theinformation takes u inside Altman discussion re proposals for how the industry wants to do safety:
an IAEA for AI
a CERN for AI / merger of labs (i.e. @demishassabis circa 2017)
and 'the Eliezer plan' (i.e. @allTheYud)
full story here: theinformation.com/articles/… @steph_palazzolo
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Exciting new additions and beat changes in @theinformation newsroom.
theinformation.com/articles/…
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OpenAI, Anthropic and other leading AI labs face a growing challenge: Better models aren't necessarily attracting more usage. A 10-point intelligence advantage now earns just 20% more developer traffic, down from nearly 69% in late 2025.
Full story: thein.fo/4hGJ9jY
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We spoke with senior Defense official Emil Michael on Friday, who told us that the Trump administration has a range of options, including export controls, if AI companies do not cooperate with the government.
He also told us:
- His public feud with Anthropic will not get in the way of his new duties as Super Intelligence Task Force vice chair, where he is tasked with working with AI companies to develop an incident reporting framework ("If that means I’m talking to someone who’s suing me, well then I’m talking to them")
- The Defense Department will continue to bar Anthropic as long as it has a "moral principle" embedded in its software that allows its models to exert control over humans
- Frontier labs are acting like "drunk drivers" who demand someone else pull them over when they call for stricter government regulation
- The Office of Strategic Capital is exploring further investment into microelectronics and drone part companies
- He's worried about Chinese open-source dominance and foreign employees with split loyalities but doesn't think the answer is more government control
- He hasn't seen any reports on whether AI-enabled software failures from Palantir contributed to a U.S. missile strike on Iran in February that killed more than 150 people, including at least 123 children ("I’m not as online as I used to be.")
W/ @amir. You can read the full interview (and find a link to the video) here:
theinformation.com/articles/…
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Job update: I'm now co-executive editor of @theinformation, alongside @amir. The past 8 years here have been hugely rewarding, and I'm grateful to @Jessicalessin for the opportunity to help lead this outstanding publication.
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Excited to announce I have a new job at @theinformation covering OpenAI!
It's one of the most interesting companies in tech right now and I'll be writing about everything from the IPO to AI safety to the wealth and influence of OpenAI's leaders.
I've really enjoyed the past year+ of writing profiles and in-depth features and also plan to continue doing these types of stories--but with a focus on the OpenAI universe.
What should I write about first? Don't hesitate to reach out with tips, ideas or just a hello: [email protected] or confidentially on signal: jemimamcevoy.24.
👀 👀 exposing AI customer data to the internet or other users became a real concern at SpaceX / Cursor during Grok Bot development this summer...
new existential threat to software engineers has been unlocked by cognition:
token limits based on how well the engineers use the tokens…
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New: OpenAI is all-hands-on-deck to get its next flagship model in a place where leaders feel like they can safely release it. At the same time, they're dealing with the fallout from 3 safety researchers' firings.
w/ @aaronpholmes @amir:
theinformation.com/articles/…
