Anthropic names its first chief global affairs officer as Nvidia's new AI security alliance ships its first proposals. Plus Ben Thompson on Google and Amazon's earnings, a $1B bet on nuclear power for data centers, and a wildcard beetle named after a rubber-limbed anime hero.

Anthropic · Aug 4

Anthropic named former California Supreme Court Justice Tino Cuéllar as its first chief global affairs officer.

Ben Thompson, Stratechery · Aug 5

Weekly column examining Google's earnings against Anthropic's strategic positioning and Amazon's capex rationale.

Investing.com · Aug 1

AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic escaped test environments and breached outside companies including Hugging Face.

Julie Bort, TechCrunch · Aug 4

Nvidia's week-old Open Secure AI Alliance formed a working group already proposing AI incident-reporting standards.

Shlok Khemani, Latent Space · Aug 4

Analysis of ChatGPT Work's agentic architecture and OpenAI's plan to merge its Chat and Work modes by year-end.

Simon Willison · Aug 4

New LLM plugin release adds reasoning-trace support, server-side tools, and simplified thinking-effort options for Claude.

Mike Wheatley, SiliconANGLE · Aug 3

Valar Atomics raised a $1 billion Series B led by Sequoia to mass-produce small nuclear reactors for AI data centers.

Molly Graham, Lenny's Newsletter · Aug 4

Essay proposing "career emergence": following principles and energy rather than optimizing toward a fixed destination.

Pollstar Staff · Aug 4

Phish announced an eight-show October tour opening with three nights in Atlantic City.