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Jon Keegan

OpenAI’s Altman calls Anthropic an “authoritarian company” and says its Super Bowl ad is “deceptive”

Yesterday, Anthropic announced that it intends (for now) to keep its Claude chatbot free of ads. Competitors OpenAI, xAI, Meta, and Google all have expressed plans for ads in some form for their respective AI chatbots.

Anthropic also released cheeky ads depicting scenarios where people are asking questions to a personified version of their AI chatbot, only to recoil in confusion when the response transforms into a creepy ad.

It’s pretty clear that Anthropic was poking fun at the market-leading AI chatbot, ChatGPT. The characters playing the chatbot had the pitch-perfect tone of an eager-to-please ChatGPT session.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tried to be a good sport, calling the ads funny, but clearly they struck a nerve, prompting a 400-word post on X in which he called the ads “deceptive,” accused Anthropic of “doublespeak,” and said it was an “authoritarian company” that was heading down a “dark path.”

Altman pushed back on the depiction of how such creepy ads could show up in chats, saying that OpenAI has pledged to never weave ads into chat conversations, knowing it users would reject that.

Previewing how the rival AI startups might battle each other in the marketplace, Altman attacked Anthropic’s focus on paid subscription, rather than generous limits for free users (which appears to be working out pretty well for Anthropic):

“Anthropic serves an expensive product to rich people. We are glad they do that and we are doing that too, but we also feel strongly that we need to bring AI to billions of people who can’t pay for subscriptions.”

Both companies are racing to launch an IPO this year, which will only raise the stakes for this billionaire beef.

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Rani Molla

Tesla and SpaceX to jointly run “most epic chip-building exercise in history by far”

In the latest instance that Elon Musk views Tesla and SpaceX as effectively one company, the CEO of both announced Saturday that the two firms will join forces on his Terafab project — what Musk says will be “the most epic chip-building exercise in history by far.”

Many of the details mirror what we reported last week, with one major addition: SpaceX will play a leading role.

Terafab, planned for the north campus of Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas, aims to vertically integrate the entire chipmaking process, from design and fabrication to testing and packaging. The goal is to supply AI chips to Tesla, SpaceX, and its subsidiary, Musk’s AI company, xAI, whose suppliers Musk said will be unable to handle their demand in “three or four years.” While Tesla has designed its own chips, it has never manufactured them.

Musk said the facility is intended to produce up to 1 terawatt of compute annually. The plant will manufacture two types of chips: inference chips for Tesla’s robotaxis and Optimus robots, and custom AI chips intended for space-based applications like solar-powered AI satellites. According to Musk, roughly 80% of the compute will be allocated to space-related uses, with the remaining 20% supporting projects on Earth.

Morgan Stanley has estimated the project could cost Tesla an additional $35 billion to $45 billion in capital expenditures, though now perhaps some of that capex might be shared with SpaceX. Like many of Musk’s ambitions, the project is enormous in scale and will likely to take years to complete — potentially into the end of the decade or beyond.

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Jon Keegan

White House releases AI legislative framework

The White House has released its policy wish list for AI legislation — and what it wants excluded.

Still, the odds of any actual AI regulation getting passed in Congress right now are very slim.

The “National Policy Framework” for AI lays out seven issues that the Trump administration wants to see reflected in any congressional action around AI.

The items listed in the framework include:

  • Child safety protections, age verification, and parental controls for AI.

  • Data center projects voluntarily pay their own way when it comes to power, but incentives should still be encouraged.

  • Copyright laws should allow for training models on copyrighted works, while protecting individuals’ voice and likeness.

  • Free speech should be defended for AI systems, preventing the government from pressuring companies to ban or alter content based on partisan agendas.

  • A light touch to regulation to encourage innovation, and no federal agency to regulate AI.

  • American workers vulnerable to AI job replacement should be retrained and supported.

  • Federal AI rules should preempt any state AI legislation to prevent a patchwork of laws that companies would hate.

The policy list is the latest in a series of proposals from the AI-friendly Trump administration.

President Donald J. Trump Unveils National AI Legislative Framework

President Donald J. Trump Unveils National AI Legislative Framework

The items listed in the framework include:

  • Child safety protections, age verification, and parental controls for AI.

  • Data center projects voluntarily pay their own way when it comes to power, but incentives should still be encouraged.

  • Copyright laws should allow for training models on copyrighted works, while protecting individuals’ voice and likeness.

  • Free speech should be defended for AI systems, preventing the government from pressuring companies to ban or alter content based on partisan agendas.

  • A light touch to regulation to encourage innovation, and no federal agency to regulate AI.

  • American workers vulnerable to AI job replacement should be retrained and supported.

  • Federal AI rules should preempt any state AI legislation to prevent a patchwork of laws that companies would hate.

The policy list is the latest in a series of proposals from the AI-friendly Trump administration.

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Jon Keegan

WSJ: OpenAI rolling everything into one desktop “superapp”

OpenAI is trying to eliminate distractions and focus on building AI that helps with enterprise productivity tasks like coding and organizing spreadsheets.

As part of that effort, the startup is consolidating some of its “side quests” into one “superapp,” according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

The plan is to merge ChatGPT, Codex, and the Atlas browser together, as it seeks to focus its efforts as it competes with Anthropic and Google for lucrative enterprise customers.

OpenAI Head of Apps Fidji Simo told staffers in an internal memo that “we realized we were spreading our efforts across too many apps and stacks, and that we need to simplify our efforts. That fragmentation has been slowing us down and making it harder to hit the quality bar we want,” per the report.

Exclusive | OpenAI Plans Launch of Desktop ‘Superapp’ to Refocus, Simplify User Experience

Exclusive | OpenAI Plans Launch of Desktop ‘Superapp’ to Refocus, Simplify User Experience

The plan is to merge ChatGPT, Codex, and the Atlas browser together, as it seeks to focus its efforts as it competes with Anthropic and Google for lucrative enterprise customers.

OpenAI Head of Apps Fidji Simo told staffers in an internal memo that “we realized we were spreading our efforts across too many apps and stacks, and that we need to simplify our efforts. That fragmentation has been slowing us down and making it harder to hit the quality bar we want,” per the report.

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What we know about Tesla’s Semi truck as production nears

Musk says “high-volume production” will start this year. Wall Street thinks that’s more like 5,000 to 15,000 trucks.

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