Coverage of model development, deployment policy, infrastructure economics, and the regulatory fights that will decide who profits and who pays.
Anthropic published three metrics Thursday — covering AI-led R&D, agent oversight, and compute allocation — designed to help AI companies measure and report on how quickly they are developing, following CEO Dario Amodei's call for an industry slowdown.
TechEchelon Staff · 2 DAYS AGO
Palantir CEO Alex Karp called for nationalization of AI labs and civil and criminal liability for irresponsible developers, while Pentagon CTO Emil Michael argued against government stakes or new regulations for the AI industry.
Marc Sabatini · 2 DAYS AGO
Snap is partnering with Nvidia, Amazon Web Services, and Salesforce to push its $2,195 Specs augmented reality glasses into the enterprise market, while also launching a new consumer AI assistant called Specs Intelligence.
Sara Montes de Oca · 2 DAYS AGO
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian told CNBC the tech industry has done a "tone deaf" job explaining AI risks, calling for substantive debate over politically motivated framing as concerns about recursive self-improvement mount at OpenAI and Anthropic.
Sara Montes de Oca · 3 DAYS AGO
A new report from the Progressive Policy Institute finds that Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft collectively account for more than half of a key U.S. capital investment benchmark, driven almost entirely by AI infrastructure spending.
Jay Goldberg · 3 DAYS AGO
Semiconductor shares, data center REITs, and AI-linked stocks fell Monday as industry warnings over AI development pace rattled markets, even as President Trump called the backlash a "hoax" and Digital Realty's CEO said any slowdown is "not end of the world" for data center real estate.
Jay Goldberg · 4 DAYS AGO
A proposal by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to slow frontier AI model development triggered broad declines in infrastructure and energy stocks Monday, raising fresh questions about the durability of the U.S. data center buildout.
TechEchelon Staff · 4 DAYS AGO
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan reaffirmed the company's AI semiconductor revenue forecasts of $115 billion in fiscal 2027 and $230 billion in fiscal 2028, even as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call for slower AI development rattled chip stocks Monday.
Marc Sabatini · 4 DAYS AGO
Apple released iOS 27 on Monday, bringing a redesigned Siri AI assistant in beta ahead of the iPhone 18's retail debut this week. The new Siri uses on-device language models and a cloud compute system, with English support launching first and several other languages to follow in October.
TechEchelon Staff · 5 DAYS AGO
Microsoft published a provisional code of conduct restricting its AI models on Monday, joining Anthropic and OpenAI in signaling support for a slower pace of frontier AI development amid growing public concern over safety risks.
Jay Goldberg · 5 DAYS AGO
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman ruled out a 2026 IPO on Saturday, calling it "ill-advised" amid AI safety concerns, as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a three-step plan to slow AI development that drew rare public support from both Altman and Elon Musk.
Jay Goldberg · 7 DAYS AGO
A coalition of former EPA officials released a report identifying 30 federal deregulatory actions since January 2025 that they say increase health risks from AI data center pollution, citing research projecting up to 1,300 premature deaths and $20 billion in public health costs by 2028.
TechEchelon Staff · 7 DAYS AGO
New Mexico's Supreme Court fined attorney Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt after he submitted an AI-generated murder appeal brief containing wholly fabricated witnesses and false testimony produced by ChatGPT.
Marc Sabatini · 7 DAYS AGO
President Trump said he has no concerns about AI posing an existential threat, emphasizing competition with China instead, as researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic publicly warn that unchecked AI development could prove catastrophic.
Sara Montes de Oca · 8 DAYS AGO
Apple CEO John Ternus and marketing chief Greg Joswiak acknowledged that the iPhone Duo's aspect ratio leaked to rivals through shared supply chains, while crediting tight security for keeping the device's folding nano-texture display under wraps until launch.
Marc Sabatini · 8 DAYS AGO
OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT for Financial Services on Thursday, a specialized enterprise tool built with Morgan Stanley and Evercore that automates research, data analysis, and pitchbook creation — work traditionally handled by entry-level Wall Street bankers.
Sara Montes de Oca · 9 DAYS AGO
CoreWeave CEO Mike Intrator said Wednesday that AI companies have not done enough to explain the technology's benefits to the public, as an Anthropic researcher's high-profile resignation and a bipartisan push for government AI transparency added to sector pressures.
Marc Sabatini · 10 DAYS AGO
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