Trump Bans Anthropic, Pentagon in disarray over AI and The Datacenter Frenzy
Catching up on some of the AI news. Rise of Cursor plugins for non-engineers. Block's 40% layoffs. Anthropic's two red lines.
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This week Anthropic took the top spot on Apple iOS download leaderboards with its Claude App as consumers are rewarding it for standing up to the Department of Defense. It’s a hot-button topic for how AI is likely to become in charge of military autonomous drone swarms in the not-so-distant future. The idea that humans will always be “in the loop” is quickly fading. National defense ethics is giving way to new engineering reinforcement learning optimizations.
