Reporter @WSJ covering tech policy with a big focus on AI. @dukechronicle alum. Reach me at [email protected].
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SCOOP: While Bo Hines was leading the White House’s push to pass the Genius Act, Tether—the company with the most at stake in the bill—was steering millions of dollars to a company he co-owned.
Right after the bill passed, Tether hired him as its U.S. chief.
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Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown has proven to be an invaluable diplomat for the company, with both the White House and onetime business rivals like Elon Musk.
He was key to ending the Mythos standoff this summer, helping land Dario land his first length 1:1 with the president last month and landing the compute deal with SpaceX that helped ease Claude’s compute crunch.
In our profile, @AmrithRamkumar and I look at how this formerly “awkward kid” who once offered to mop floors at OpenAI is now leveraging his friendly ties with Republicans – of which he is one – to help the company build bridges ahead of its IPO.
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Meet the Anthropic executive who convinced the White House and Elon Musk that the company isn’t woke:
6-foot-6 Tom Brown bought a house in Washington and appealed to Republicans while tackling the company’s compute shortage.
Profile w/ @keachhagey:
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Last week's Trump Accounts changes mean that millions of kids will get individual stocks that they can't reject and can't sell for five years.
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Behind the scenes of Tuesday’s White House AI meeting, CEOs including Jensen Huang questioned Dario Amodei in the Roosevelt Room about his dire warnings about AI risks, a sign of lingering tension despite the show of unity. W/ @jdawsey1:
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President Trump and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are scheduled to have a private dinner Sunday evening at the White House. Story with @AmrithRamkumar.
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Inside the White House tussles to sway Trump on AI. Our latest with a free link: wsj.com/tech/ai/inside-the-w…
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We profiled Jacob Coxon, the "normal researcher" who quit Anthropic and caused a firestorm, tracing his journey from high school math whiz to London rationalist to self-proclaimed "doomer."
with @AmrithRamkumar @berber_jin1 @bzcohen: wsj.com/tech/ai/jacob-coxon-…
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Inside the White House Tussle to Sway Trump on AI, by @jdawsey1 @AmrithRamkumar:
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"It took talk of the possible end of humanity to bring them together." wsj.com/politics/bernie-sand… via @WSJ @AmrithRamkumar + Maya Davis
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We spoke to lawmakers, church leaders, corporate America, and a filmmaker to call the moment: the week that panic of an AI doomsday leaped from the confines of Silicon Valley circles to mainstream America.
w/ @AmrithRamkumar @lindsayaellis
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All over the country, this was the week that panic about the existential threat of AI appeared to leap from the confines of internet debates and Silicon Valley circles and spread across mainstream America. @lindsayaellis @AmrithRamkumar @AngelAuYeung wsj.com/tech/ai/americas-gre…
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Congress Is Suddenly Waking Up to the AI Doomsday Threat wsj.com/politics/policy/cong… @AmrithRamkumar @Kubota_Yoko
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How Chinese AI Firms Tried to Clone U.S. AI Models—New allegations of how DeepSeek and Moonshot tried to ‘distill’ Anthropic’s Claude come in a threat report highlighting dangerous biological queries
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Concerns about the risks of AI and whether the companies building it are doing enough to keep it safe erupted across the tech world, following the public resignation of an Anthropic researcher.
Jacob Coxon, who previously worked at OpenAI, wrote in a post that the industry understands the potential risks but is moving ahead anyway.
@GeoffRBennett speaks to @AmrithRamkumar for more.
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If you're scrambling to catch up on federal AI policy news today, welcome! That's what I report on every day. Other great follows: @Dareasmunhoz, @m_ccuri, @ashleyrgold, @BrendanBordelon, @__gabbymiller, @vronirwin, @viaCristiano, @AmrithRamkumar & many more
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Last year, states gave out billions of dollars in tax breaks to data centers. Voters are outraged—and states are backpedaling their incentives.
New Jersey clawed back a quarter-billion in tax credits, Ohio has limited their tax breaks and Virginia is taxing data-center electricity use.
This and more in my latest with @AmrithRamkumar @RichardRubinDC
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An Anthropic researcher is quitting the artificial-intelligence industry over fears that the lab and its competitors are racing to build systems that could spiral out of control and destroy humanity. on.wsj.com/4hhAoMR
The AI backlash is so strong that it is uniting populists on the far right and left like Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders and spurring a flood of campaign ads.
Our look at the political horseshoe issue w/ @elizacollins1 & @anthonydb:
