Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Claude was the first A.I. certified to operate on classified systems. Altman, perhaps wisely, thought such work was likely to be more trouble than it was worth. But Amodei wanted Claude to be helpful at the most sensitive level. The national-security agencies do not use Claude in the form of a consumer chatbot; Secretary of War Pete Hegseth does not open the Claude app to ask what's up with the whole Taiwan thing.

Last month, Musk criticized the coding team for falling behind in a town hall meeting that was posted online. He detailed a reorganization after several other co-founders had been removed, including Greg Yang, Tony Wu, and Jimmy Ba. Toby Pohlen, a former DeepMind researcher, was put in charge of the "Macrohard" project to build digital agents that Musk said could replicate entire software companies.

When the user asks "What enemy military unit is in the region?" the AIP Assistant guesses that it's "likely an armor attack battalion based on the pattern of the equipment." This prompts the analyst to request a MQ-9 Reaper drone to survey the scene. They then ask the AIP Assistant to "generate 3 courses of action to target this enemy equipment," and within moments, the assistant suggests attacking the unit with either an "air asset," a "long range artillery," or a "tactical team."

Now we've got a technology that's going to eliminate the sorts of things that allow people to become wealthy off of tedious work. That was not what lawyers are trained to do, and not what we ultimately look to lawyers for.

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is working with a Southeast Asian company on plans to use Nvidia's Blackwell chips in Malaysia for AI research and development. The partner is a Tier 1 Nvidia cloud partner, meaning it gets priority access to Nvidia's latest chips directly from Nvidia. ByteDance plugs in through that relationship to access hardware it cannot legally obtain at home.

Right off the bat, Claude had fewer bugs generating code than ChatGPT. We didn't have any major frustrations with ChatGPT that forced us to switch, but I think one of the promises of AI is to speed up our work, and Claude let us move faster because we spent less time correcting it.

Zacks Investment Research assigned Micron its top Rank #1 (Strong Buy) rating this morning, citing the company's "significant role in the AI boom" and noting that Micron's 2026 HBM capacity is already sold out, driven by demand from AI chip partners including NVIDIA, Advanced Micro Devices, and Intel.