Something that didn't fit into this week's newsletter is how new concerns with LLMs echo the same issues Apple feared. 2016: @tim_cook warned forcing Apple to create a backdoor could make it easier for the government to someday also demand that Apple build surveillance software
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Anthropic Pentagon Fight Parallels Apple FBI Historic Dispute
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In today's edition of the @BigTechnology Agenda Setter newsletter, @Kantrowitz and I wrote about the potential fallout from @AnthropicAI
's fight with the Pentagon and some parallels with @Apple
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Anthropic’s Latest Releases: Claude Code, Claude.ai, and Cowork
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It was easy to miss all the stuff we shipped at Anthropic this past week given… everything else that happened. A few of my favorites across Claude Code, claude dot ai, and Cowork:
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Claude’s Explosive Growth Week: App Store Success and Server Overload
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I go offline for one week:
– DoW saga
– everyone from trump to katy perry posts about us
– Claude hits 1 on app store
– sign-up records broken, servers are melting
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Where Does AI Company Authority Come From?
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Where does authority come from? That’s the question AI companies need to grapple with.
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Starlink National Security Asset Biden Administration Discussion
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In fact I talked explicitly about Starlink being a national security asset during the Biden administration
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Power asymmetry: entities with technological control dominate systems
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It’s not a two way street. The entity with the guns has the power. That’s the entire point of the article
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Starshield Military Restrictions Clarification Needed
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I don’t believe there are any restriction on Starshield, which is basically the US military version of Starlink, but I’m happy to be corrected.
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Countries Should Develop Own AI Models for Military Independence
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Isn’t a high time for countries to develop their own AI models? What if companies like OpenAI doesn’t allow other governments to use their models for military operations?
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Jinjie Ni Joins Google DeepMind as Research Scientist
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Congrats and welcome @NiJinjie to the center of AGI (🇸🇬 branch). Taking highly technical and capable researchers like this and giving them a chance to be at the frontier to make tons of impact for Gemini has been one of the most rewarding things of founding & building GDM in SG. Jinjie Ni (@NiJinjie) Life update: I’ve joined @GoogleDeepMind as a research scientist to work on ✨gemini scaling and RL, under the leadership of Yi Tay (@YiTayML) and Quoc Le (@quocleix). I feel extremely fortunate to be on the critical path towards AGI and can't wait to help push the frontier of gemini capabilities! 🚀 — https://nitter.net/NiJinjie/status/2028471474265420141#m