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Curated by Gaurav · March 23, 2026
Harry McCracken / Fast Company: Sundar Pichai and Google executives on being blindsided by ChatGPT, Gemini, and a vision of useful AI everywhere.
OpenAI is dangling pre-release model access and financial terms well above market to lock in PE distribution ahead of a possible IPO; Anthropic's parallel effort reportedly offers no such guarantee.
Axios: OpenAI is in advanced talks to buy up to 5 GW of power by 2030 from Helion; Sam Altman stepped down as Helion board chair as the companies negotiate.
Warren sent letters to Pete Hegseth and Sam Altman asking for details on OpenAI's defense contract and the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic.
A Washington summit puts the Trump administration's alignment with tech leaders against public concern over AI's economic impact and use in the Iran conflict.
NYT: Trump officials tied the plan to reducing supply-chain vulnerability after the war in Iran, with a voluntary consortium targeting chips, energy, and minerals.
Apple will hold WWDC June 8-12, with expectations for a major set of AI-focused platform updates.
Gimlet raised $80M Series A for multi-vendor inference across NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, ARM, Cerebras, and d-Matrix.
The Pentagon alleges Anthropic could manipulate models during war; executives argue that is not feasible.
The FT covers Anthropic's survey of 80,000 Claude users: hallucinations and reliability worries rank above fear of job loss for many power users.
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