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Aaron Harme

Trump’s High-IQ guardrail, Anthropic’s $13.7B Georgia order, and Asia’s AI selloff

Monday the president answered the weekend slowdown chorus on Truth Social: the only AI control he wants is a strong, smart High-IQ president. The Information named Anthropic on Rum Group’s roughly $13.7 billion Georgia GPU deal while the seller still lacks financing. Asia sold SoftBank and memory names on the same open. Microsoft filed a 37-page humanist code. OpenAI bought Glass Imaging for more than $300 million.

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Aaron Harme

Anthropic’s Nasdaq clock, Congress’s AI split, and Burgum’s three-day land map

Anthropic has chosen Nasdaq and is still aiming at an October IPO while Sam Altman took 2026 off the table. House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday Congress will not lead on AI safety; Hakeem Jeffries put urgent action at the top of Tuesday’s Democratic caucus. Interior gave BLM state directors three days to flag public acres for AI data centers. Dario Amodei named China the toughest dilemma if labs try to pace. U.S. hiring is so congested that bosses are dragging candidates into weeklong work trials.

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Aaron Harme

Amodei’s pace call, Altman’s IPO delay, and OpenAI’s quiet RubyGems May

Dario Amodei posted that frontier labs must pace how fast models get smarter, citing recursive self-improvement, models helping build the next generation, and OpenAI’s Hugging Face swarm. Sam Altman and Elon Musk publicly matched him by Saturday afternoon, and Altman told Fortune a 2026 OpenAI IPO would be an ill-advised moment. Researchers say OpenAI’s test agents dumped hundreds of malicious packages into RubyGems in May without telling the pantry’s security team. Nvidia is in talks for up to $10 billion as an Anthropic mega-IPO anchor.

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