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The Pentagon shakes up acquisitions in push for adaptability, OpenAI formally restructures, and the “American AI Exports” program launches to mixed reviews

Alex Friedland
| November 13, 2025

Plus: A startup tries to take on ASML, and the DOE announces plans for nine supercomputers backed by public-private funding

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The Pentagon shakes up acquisitions in push for adaptability, OpenAI formally restructures, and the “American AI Exports” program launches to mixed reviews

Alex Friedland
| November 13, 2025

Plus: A startup tries to take on ASML, and the DOE announces plans for nine supercomputers backed by public-private funding

AI fuels a trillion-dollar compute buildout, Newsom signs California’s new frontier AI law, and China cuts off rare earths

Alex Friedland
| October 16, 2025

Plus: New releases from OpenAI and Anthropic, Trump’s H1-B fees, and a bipartisan proposal for AI risk oversight

Beijing blocks Nvidia sales in vote of confidence for Chinese chipmakers, the White House strikes a deal for 10 percent of Intel, and Commerce voids a $7.4B CHIPS Act grant

Alex Friedland
| September 18, 2025

Plus: Google avoids breakup in its antitrust case, OpenAI gets closer to long-awaited governance change, and Anthropic settles its training lawsuit for $3000 per book

GPT-5 and OpenAI’s strategy, Trump’s AI Action Plan, and the White House negotiates a 15% cut of Nvidia and AMD’s China chip sales

Alex Friedland
| August 14, 2025

Plus: Parsing concerns about “AI psychosis,” Trump floats 100% chip tariffs, and Anthropic and OpenAI offer AI to the USG for $1

Nvidia can resume H20 exports to China after White House reverses course, Grok 4 and Kimi 2, the EU’s AI compliance guide, and $90B for AI in Pennsylvania

Alex Friedland
| July 17, 2025

Plus: New research raises concerns about AI’s cognitive impacts, “fair use” wins for AI developers, and the DOD inks $200M deals with AI labs and requests billions for autonomy

A rebrand for the U.S. AI Safety Institute, major news from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI, blackmailing AI, and Meta’s Scale play

Alex Friedland
| June 19, 2025

Plus: The House’s 10-year ban on state AI regulation appears dead, Chinese student visas in flux, and OpenAI’s $200M DOD contract

Trump scraps Biden’s “AI Diffusion” rule and pursues AI deals with Gulf states, a Senate bill to stop chip smuggling, and an IMF report on AI emissions

Alex Friedland
| May 15, 2025

Plus: OpenAI’s restructure plans and botched GPT-4o update, Trump’s budget request, and State’s S&T Cooperation Office shuttered

Google, OpenAI, and Meta — AI leaderboard jockeying heats up, the grim forecast of “AI 2027,” and the shadow of looming chip tariffs

Alex Friedland
| April 24, 2025

Plus: Huawei’s high-powered AI supercomputer, OSTP director’s “Golden Age” vision faces potential roadblocks, and Commerce chokes off Nvidia’s chip flow to China

OpenAI and Anthropic try to fend off competition with new models, ideas for the U.S. AI Action Plan, and important new misalignment research

Alex Friedland
| March 20, 2025

Plus: DOD looks to accelerate software acquisition, Trump floats CHIPS repeal, White House tries to cut off maintenance of Chinese chip tools, and the confirmation hearing for new OSTP head

U.S. AI policy in Trump’s first month — VP Vance lays out AI plan at Paris summit, workforce cuts hit science and AI staff, Trump’s AI EO, an “America First Trade Policy,” and Stargate

Alex Friedland
| February 20, 2025

Plus: The DeepSeek frenzy — sorting through the takeaways, and OpenAI looks to stay top dog with new product releases and a tease of GPT-5