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Inside the Culture Clash That Tore Apart the Pentagon’s Anthropic Deal

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By Ryan Hassan, Blake Dodge
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Emil Michael is the under secretary of war and head of the Pentagon’s artificial intelligence portfolio. We spoke with him yesterday for insight into the negotiations with Anthropic and the Department of War that broke down this week. Here, his account. In August, Emil Michael, the under secretary of war for research and engineering, took over the Pentagon’s AI portfolio.
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Meet the Architects of California’s Billionaire Tax

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By Blake Dodge
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In California, a recent proposed ballot measure would tax billionaires 5% of their net worth. The proposal, which needs nearly 1 million signatures to make it onto the ballot come November, has sparked conversations about inequality, wealth flight, and the future of Silicon Valley: will tech founders stay in a state ruled by the fickle whims of the masses? There’s been less attention, however, on the architects of the proposal themselves: who they are and what they want.
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The Data Center Water Crisis Isn't Real

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By Blake Dodge
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By day, Andy Masley was working as a director for an effective altruism community in DC. By night, he was writing blogs for his Substack The Weird Turn Pro, such as: “A failure to take violence seriously is bad.” But last January, Andy noticed something curious. When he’d passively mention using ChatGPT at parties, people would respond: “Don’t you know how bad that is for the climate?” “And I would try to suss out what they meant by that,” Andy told us in an interview.
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