Amrith Ramkumar

Meet the Anthropic executive who convinced the White House and Elon Musk that the company isn’t woke:

6-foot-6 Tom Brown bought a house in Washington and appealed to Republicans while tackling the company’s compute shortage.

Profile w/ @keachhagey:

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Behind the scenes of Tuesday’s White House AI meeting, CEOs including Jensen Huang questioned Dario Amodei in the Roosevelt Room about his dire warnings about AI risks, a sign of lingering tension despite the show of unity. W/ @jdawsey1:

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The AI backlash is so strong that it is uniting populists on the far right and left like Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders and spurring a flood of campaign ads.

Our look at the political horseshoe issue w/ @elizacollins1 & @anthonydb:

Call it the backlash to the backlash—Unions and building trades say they will oppose candidates attacking data centers, putting Democrats and other long-term allies in a pickle.

W/ @lindsayaellis:

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Data centers are now so politically toxic that the politicians who backed them are fully retreating, fueling an industry crisis going into the midterms and 2028.

Our latest on the AI backlash w/ @sabrod123:

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