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Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI assistant, finds itself in a striking contradiction this week. The firm embedded engineers with the NSA to support offensive cyber operations against China, while simultaneously publishing a report warning that AI could soon develop itself without meaningful human oversight. It raises a fair question about who exactly is steering this technology, and toward what ends.
Shifting to the hardware side of the AI economy, Google has struck a deal to purchase computing capacity from SpaceX worth nine hundred twenty million dollars per month. That is not a typo. The arrangement signals just how deeply the infrastructure demands of artificial intelligence are reshaping corporate partnerships, pulling together companies from entirely different corners of the tech world in ways that would have seemed unlikely just a few years ago.
And in the world of digital assets, bitcoin took a significant hit this week, with roughly two hundred billion dollars wiped from its market value. Prominent voices including Michael Saylor and Jameson Lopp pointed to capital flowing toward AI investments as a likely culprit. Jack Mallers stayed quiet on the outlook but told followers to buy the dip, which is perhaps the most reliably consistent advice in all of crypto.
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