An archived Open Philanthropy grant table obtained by Effort shows the organization, now rebranded Coefficient Giving, ran a "placement" strategy putting hand-picked staff into US and UK government of…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is calling for independent outside watchdogs to safeguard developing AI technologies, pointing to the AI safety testing laboratory METR, whose founder and CEO Beth Barnes an…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has proposed giving the nonprofit Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR) "employee-like access" to oversee AI safety efforts, according to a bombshell essay titled "We …
Palantir chief technology officer and executive vice president Shyam Sankar argues in a Free Press Big Read that the AI safety warnings from researchers and executives are driven by the ideology of ef…
The Future of Life Institute and other AI Safety donors directed $3.3 million since 2025 into churches, seminaries, faith networks and religious-affinity groups to fund public statements on AI, includ…
An effective altruism-linked organization, Irreplaceable, is paying $2,000 weekly compensation for an ostensibly grassroots anti-AI media campaign, recruiting student protest leaders to coordinate wal…
The US Department of Justice has seized an Anthropic stake linked to FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's inner circle, targeting assets that have appreciated significantly amid the AI boom. The seizure, p…
Effective Altruism (EA) is experiencing a resurgence, driven by AI industry donations, according to a Financial Times report. Giving What We Can, an EA-affiliated charity, saw donations rise from $1.2…
Expected IPOs for Anthropic and OpenAI are set to create a new wave of philanthropists committed to 'effective giving,' reviving the effective altruism movement after the turmoil caused by Sam Bankman…
Leopold Aschenbrenner, the 24-year-old founder of hedge fund Situational Awareness, saw his $45 billion AI-focused fund unravel after excessive borrowing left him vulnerable when his bets faltered, fo…
Leopold Aschenbrenner, founder of the AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness, saw his $45 billion portfolio collapse days before his wedding in Carmel, California, after heavy borrowing to make m…
Hedge fund Situational Awareness, founded in 2024 by former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner, lost 67% in August 2025 and was forced to sell most of its public holdings to Citadel after debt-fuel…
Leopold Aschenbrenner, a 24-year-old former OpenAI researcher and founder of hedge fund Situational Awareness LP, was forced to sell all public stock holdings after the fund posted large losses from d…
Leopold Aschenbrenner, a 20-something former OpenAI researcher and AI savant, is at the center of a hedge fund meltdown after his firm Situational Awareness was forced to sell most of its public equit…
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration lacked sufficient evidence to label Anthropic a supply chain risk, undermining the Pentagon's March 2026 ban on the AI company's models. The decisio…
Brett Harrison, founder and CEO of Architect Financial Technologies and former FTX US president, argues that large language models are fundamentally unsuited for building core quantitative trading sys…
Meta's AI reorganization has caused employee unrest, with CTO Andrew Bosworth admitting the process was 'atrocious.' A leak exposed members of Peter Thiel's secretive 'Dialog' society, and Sam Bankman…
Hacker News users discuss multiple stories involving Amazon, Anthropic, and AI policy, including Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials, Anthropic halting foreign access to AI tools, and the expiratio…
Anthropic, once seen as AI's lovable underdog, faces growing backlash due to self-inflicted missteps including a Pentagon blacklist and the release of a model that secretly sabotages competitors, unde…
Spark Capital partner Yasmin Razavi led a $450 million financing round for Anthropic in May 2023, generating an estimated $3 billion paper gain on a roughly $75 million commitment, according to Forbes…