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An interesting twist not mentioned here is that Anthropic's actually the one making good use of this datacenter that the government is defending, not xAI x.com/mollytaft/status/20667…

if you had told me last month that Anthropic would be telling the Trump admin that its AI fears were overblown, I wouldn't have believed you. But here we are.

This gets funnier everytime I watch it. If you don’t see it the first time, watch it again. Funniest thing you’ll watch today

SCOOP from @By_CJewett & me: Markwayne Mullin urged @HHSGov to remove warnings from the @US_FDA website about the health risks of the gas station drug kratom. Mullin owns equity in a leading kratom company called Botanic Tonics that could have benefited. nytimes.com/2026/06/15/us/po…

LATEST play-by-play on the White House-Anthropic export controls saga: - It will likely take longer than a few days to reach a resolution that eases export controls, a senior WH official tells me but they left the door open to the possibility that it can be done quickly. “That’s up to Anthropic.” - Since Friday, Trump has asked Howard Lutnick to be more involved with Anthropic - On Saturday, Lutnick, Sean Cairncross, Anthropic’s Tom Brown Sarah Heck had multiple high level hour long calls - Over the weekend, Anthropic assembled a technical team including Logan Graham from “Frontier Red Team,” Dave Orr who is head of safeguards, and lead security researcher Nicholas Carlini to engage the admin - Today (Monday), the Anthropic trio gave in-person presentation to administration officials from ONCD and Commerce’s CAISI. Chris Fall, head of CAISI, was one of the participants. - Bessent has been less involved over the weekend and Treasury did not participate in the in-person meetings Monday - Lutnick and Bessent both flew to G7 on Air Force One with Trump W/ @cheyennehaslett politico.com/news/2026/06/15…

This administration keeps choosing their billionaire buddies over consumers. The FCC must conduct a rigorous, transparent review of the foreign investment in this deal so Americans know who really controls the public airwaves. No more billionaire buddy bypasses.

Over two-thirds of the @DeptofWar has officially transitioned off Anthropic models in daily workflows in favor of alternative AI vendors. The Department will no longer be single-threaded to one AI provider. Our warfighters will have access to a diverse suite of AI capabilities to ensure they achieve true decision superiority. 🇺🇸

Full story here wired.com/story/andrew-boswo…

NEW, from me and @peard33: Meta CTO Andrew Bozworth told staffers the company did an “atrocious” job of explaining its vision for its new AI division, and will aim to “rekindle” a more cheerful internal culture through better communication, career growth, and even snacks. WIRED has seen the full memo. More below

WSJ reporting making clear that DOJ decision to clear Paramount/WBD merger had nothing to do with the facts or the law and everything to do with corruption

Xbox is closing down Hellblade creator Ninja Theory. Compulsion Games and Double Fine are also in “active negotiations” about spinning off theverge.com/games/950204/xb…

havent been in the weeds on this most recent White House vs Anthropic spat but if "pink hair" is a disqualifying factor in determining whether an outside security researcher is legitimate, i am guessing the admin hasnt been to RSA, Black Hat, or any other top security conference

Doesn't sound like we'll be getting Fable back very soon, then

Sounds like some folks at the WH were unaware Fable has >0 cyber abilities so thought something unsurprising was surprising, Dario rightly thought this was a misunderstanding, no one in govt who knew what was going on was looped in or could stop it, and ppl outside egged it on

Fox is buying Roku for $22 billion. First big Lachlan Murdoch era acquisition after shrinking itself down with Disney sale.

"They screwed us": Personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline axios.com/2026/06/15/anthrop…

Cyber experts warn Fable limits aid attackers and hurts defenders axios.com/2026/06/15/anthrop…

Hany Farid saying this is terrifying. “I don’t trust anything. Every image I see, I’m drawing lines for shadows and doing geometry in my head. It’s over. Within a year or two, our whole visual system will be utterly useless.” nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ai…

I'm guessing: - Anthropic "agrees" to do something minor/performative bc the issue was overstated to begin with - this sort of allows the administration to "save face" (but not really) - Fable gets unblocked - and we just wasted another several days with ASI looming

My story on Giants Pride Night and the four pitchers who didn't support it. Spoke w/Logan Webb on his views, long-time Giants fan who protested to team, and author of recent book "The God Squad" -- also here's the Giants' team statement: sfstandard.com/2026/06/14/sf… via @sfstandard