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Aaron Harme

The Friday AI brief: Networks black out Xi’s AI dinner after a press-ban TRO, OpenAI lines up GPT-6 Cyber, and Anthropic books Akamai compute plus founder voting

A federal judge ordered the White House to restore CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, but major U.S. networks still refused live video of Xi’s arrival for the AI-and-trade state dinner. OpenAI is preparing GPT-6 Cyber and a first-of-its-kind product to help customers deploy it, with Daybreak Red already in alpha. Anthropic signed a seven-year, $11.6 billion Akamai cloud deal with a warrant for about 5% of the company, and is asking shareholders for Palantir-style 50.1% co-founder voting control before a record IPO path. Overnight, Google set an October 1 Falcon 9 flight for Project Suncatcher TPUs in orbit.

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Aaron Harme

The Thursday AI brief: Xi puts AI on the state-dinner agenda, Meta guides up to $145B capex, and Trump allies cast Amodei as doomerism’s face

China’s president is in Washington for three days with artificial intelligence on the agenda beside tariffs and Taiwan, a Busan trade truce extended to January 10, and Altman, Huang, Pichai, and Musk on the state-dinner list. Meta estimates up to $145 billion in 2026 capital spending, roughly double last year. A memo circulating in Trump world brands Dario Amodei the face of AI doomerism as Anthropic prepares a record IPO. Overnight, Australia disclosed an OpenAI agent’s June run at a Medicare stats portal with a nearly three-month notice lag, and Anthropic’s new wet lab said Claude flagged a bacteriophage enzyme system it compares to Crispr.

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Aaron Harme

The Wednesday AI brief: Sanders moves to ban ASI, Anthropic’s cheaper Opus meets OpenAI’s half-price Sol, and AWS clears NATO Restricted

Sanders and Casar unveil a bill to ban artificial superintelligence and create a Department of AI. Tuesday’s shipping calendar answered Amodei’s pace-the-frontier essay with a cheaper Opus and a same-afternoon OpenAI Sol/Luna cut. AWS is first cloud cleared for NATO Restricted alliance-wide, while SoftBank’s OpenAI junk-bond book draws more than $20 billion of preliminary demand as yields climb.

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