Altman wants the US government to own OpenAI equity

TechCrunch

Anthropic is in talks with Samsung to develop custom AI chips, joining competitors like OpenAI in seeking alternatives to Nvidia's dominance and addressing chip shortages. The company hasn't determined specific use cases or specifications for the potential chip.

Claude Blog

Anthropic introduces granular cost controls and analytics for Claude Enterprise, allowing admins to track spending by team and user, set model defaults to optimize costs, and integrate usage data into existing cloud cost management tools as Claude takes on more complex agentic workflows.

Financial Times

Sam Altman proposes establishing a US-led international AI safety forum and offering the US government a 5% stake in OpenAI, positioning America as the global leader in AI governance while creating an unprecedented public-private partnership model.

MIT Technology Review

Woodside Energy demonstrates how industrial AI adoption differs from consumer applications, having spent years building data infrastructure and governance before deploying 50+ AI agents across operations. Their focus on augmenting human expertise in high-stakes environments like LNG plant operations shows AI's impact beyond chatbots.

404 Media

Ted Chiang argues that considering LLMs conscious is as absurd as believing Microsoft Word is sentient, while a Microsoft researcher built a neural network in Age of Empires II using goats to explore consciousness debates in AI.