The Safety Card, Played From Every Side: David Sacks, Anthropic, and the Fable Standoff

White House official claims Anthropic refused to fix a jailbreak vulnerability, leading to model bans; Anthropic disputes the severity of the flaw.

Anthropic’s Safety Story Has Become a Power Story

Anthropic claims its AI systems are increasingly capable of self-improvement, raising questions about technological and political implications.

When AI Builds Itself: Inside Anthropic’s Evidence on Recursive Self-Improvement

Anthropic reports measurable acceleration in AI’s ability to develop itself, with data suggesting potential for recursive self-improvement if key gaps close.

The bridge. Why the AI buildout runs on a nuclear story and a gas reality.

Analysis of how AI data centers rely on natural gas now while nuclear buildout promises future clean energy, revealing a timeline mismatch.

Technology Is Never Neutral: Pope Leo XIV’s AI Encyclical, and the Empty Chairs in the Room

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical emphasizes technology’s non-neutrality and highlights Anthropic’s role in AI safety, raising questions about industry influence.

Different Game, or Already Lost? Reading Mistral’s Sovereignty Bet

Mistral emphasizes European control over AI infrastructure, open weights, and small models. Is this strategy a competitive advantage or a sign of lag behind US and Chinese giants?

The queue. Why the grid, not the chip, is the binding constraint on AI.

The US interconnection queue has become the primary bottleneck for AI data-center expansion, prompting private grid solutions and shifting costs onto ratepayers.

The clause. How a contractual definition of AGI met the capital built on top of it.

A contractual clause defining AGI in the 2019 Microsoft-OpenAI deal was systematically defused through amendments in 2025 and 2026, altering its original intent.

The gigawatt gap. Why China is structurally positioned for AI power and the US is engineering around its grid.

Analysis of how China leverages its centralized power infrastructure to close the gigawatt gap in AI deployment, contrasting with US fragmentation.

Phase 1 synthesis. What the four sectors crystallize.

Empirical analysis confirms four distinct AI-driven labor displacement patterns across sectors, establishing a structural foundation for policy responses.