Google joins the Pentagon club. Three labs, three very different deals. The Information reports Google is negotiating a classified AI agreement with the Pentagon to deploy Gemini in secure environments. A full reversal of the 2018 Project Maven walkout. The three-lab picture:
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Anthropic acquires new building for expansion
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Wow can't believe Anthropic snapped up this building
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Allbirds pivots from shoes to AI GPU lending business
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In an all out bizarre move, Allbirds, the shoe company announced its selling its shoe business and pivoting to becoming an AI company. In a nutshell the plan to capitalize on the gap in the GPU market, buy GPU's to lend them to developers who can't find enough of them from
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America Awakens to AI’s Dangerous Power and Implications
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"The Mythos Moment" https://
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Compute constraints drive vendor switching in AI market
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The compute constraint is actually the most credible part of this. Friction with a current vendor is what makes teams open the door to alternatives. That's a real vulnerability and it has nothing to do with benchmarks.
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Anthropic Mythos Shelved Reveals Company’s Current Technical Ceiling
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Mythos getting shelved is the more interesting signal here. Whatever they pulled back from tells you more about where Anthropic's ceiling currently sits than whatever ships today.
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McGraw Hill Ransomware Attack Exposes 13.5M Records
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Textbook titan McGraw Hill on ransomware crew's reading list after 13.5M records exposed https://
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Gemini 3.1 Pro Leads METR Time Horizon Benchmark
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New METR time horizon leader: Gemini 3.1 Pro. On METR's time horizon benchmark (80% success rate (!)), Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro now handles software tasks that take humans 1 hour 30 minutes on average. 95% CI ranges from 52 minutes up to 2 hours 39 minutes. Average score: 77%.
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Europe Must Shape AI and Tech Narrative Against US Dominance
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The US does especially well narrative shaping eg SV has nothing to do with pioneers or settlers. Not even pioneers and settlers had much to do with what we think of nowadays when we say that. Europe needs to step up and 1) think of itself as Europe and 2) tell the world what
