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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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Aaron Harme

The Tuesday AI brief: Newsom bills the halls, DeepSeek joins Altman at the UN, and Alibaba sketches a bigger Qwen

California signed seven bills so AI data centers pay for grid and water upgrades. OpenAI asked Washington to lead incident standards days before Altman briefs the Security Council, and Reuters sources say DeepSeek was invited into the same room. In Hangzhou, Alibaba stacked a bigger Qwen, a homemade chip, and a 20-gigawatt cloud path.

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