Former AI czar calls billl for government equity a ‘stupidity tax’ and warns against nationalization

The Trump administration’s former AI czar sounded the alarm on giving the federal government equity stakes…

When good money goes bad: the question SpaceX and OpenAI investors aren’t asking

When Sam Altman was president of Y Combinator, he advised founders: stay close enough to profitability…

MAGA hates AI, but Trump agrees with Bernie it might be time for partial government ownership

The strangest political convergence of 2026 just got stranger. Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S.…

The Pope chose this atheist Anthropic cofounder to sit beside him and talk about the danger of AI

Sitting alongside Pope Leo XIV as he delivered his first encyclical on the dangers of AI…

Apollo chief economist says there’s ‘zero evidence’ AI is killing jobs—it’s creating them

Sløk pointed to ADP employment data as evidence, concluding that the AI spending frenzy is “stoking…

As Microsoft seeks to be AI’s center of gravity, CEO Satya Nadella makes the case in San Francisco

Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella proclaimed a “new paradigm” on Tuesday in a keynote at the…

Anthropic confidentially files its S-1 first—but the IPO race with OpenAI is just beginning

Anthropic’s S-1 filing on Monday was confidential, but there’s much we already know about the $965…

Harvard Law: Anthropic is about to sell a safety mission that Wall Street can veto

Of the three companies that have ever installed investor-overriding mission guardians in a for-profit structure, one…

Florida sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman over allegations of marketing ChatGPT despite serious risks

The state of Florida filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Monday, claiming the company…

Anthropic drops new Claude model as OpenAI IPO race heats up

Money usually reveals what people believe about the future long before any product does. For most…

Exclusive: Microsoft is building a super app that combines coding, chat, and other Copilot AI tools

Microsoft needs to solve a nagging problem: It has various Copilot AI assistants throughout its portfolio…

Anthropic leapfrogs OpenAI with a record $965 billion valuation, says Mythos is coming soon

Anthropic is having a busy week. On Thursday, the San Francisco-based AI lab announced it had…

What’s rarer than a unicorn? Anthropic is almost the first $1 trillion private company in history

Two weeks ago, defense startup Anduril raised a Series H round—$5 billion at a $61 billion…

Researchers let AI run a simulated society. Claude was the safest—Grok went extinct within days

Imagine a world run by AI agents. What does it look like? What are the values…

With a backlash growing, politicians from the White House to the Capitol pivot to AI regulation

Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…momentum builds for U.S. AI regulation…Musk loses…

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions as they eye IPOs

Two of the most influential CEOs in tech spent the last year warning that AI would…

BofA raises red flag on SpaceX, OpenAI IPOs

Markets do not crash when investors are afraid. They crash when investors are convinced the rules…

The big questions OpenAI’s trillion-dollar IPO filing may finally answer

OpenAI’s hotly anticipated IPO may be coming sooner than expected. Hot on the heels of co-founder…

Tech billionaires convinced Trump to back off AI executive order

The tech bros struck back. That’s the best way to describe what happened yesterday when President…

Anthropic lands in London as AI-powered coding—and the anxieties around it—go mainstream

Welcome to Eye on AI. Beatrice Nolan here, filling in for AI reporter Sharon Goldman. In…

Microsoft lost its way in the AI race. Can Copilot get it back on course?

Redmond, Washington, mid-January 2026. The weather, cold and gray. It’s the kind of morning the snooze…

Jury rules against Elon Musk in lawsuit against OpenAI

An Oakland, Calif., jury rejected Elon Musk’s claims against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, after just two hours…