OpenAI Wants Legal Immunity for 100 Deaths — Anthropic Said No
OpenAI backs an Illinois bill shielding AI labs from liability for 100+ deaths — Anthropic, the self-styled safety company, publicly opposes it.
David Chen
Bureau: Beijing
The Chip Industry Will Hit $1.3 Trillion This Year — Consumers Will Pay the Memflation Tax
Gartner forecasts $1.3 trillion in semiconductor revenue for 2026, driven by AI-fueled memory demand — DRAM prices rising 125%, hitting everything with a chip inside.
Meta and Broadcom Will Build 1 Gigawatt of Custom AI Silicon — Personal Superintelligence Is the Pitch
Meta and Broadcom extend their chip deal through 2029 with 1 gigawatt of custom 2nm AI silicon — the infrastructure Meta calls 'personal superintelligence.'
Musk Launches XChat, a Standalone Encrypted Messaging App, on April 17
XChat arrives Friday on iOS — end-to-end encrypted, no ads, no phone number required — and the WeChat super-app comparison Musk explicitly wants you to make.
Anthropic Paid $400 Million for a 10-Person Biotech Startup
Anthropic's all-stock acquisition of stealth startup Coefficient Bio values each of its roughly 10 employees at $40 million and signals an AI lab's bet that biology is its next frontier.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google United Against Chinese AI Copying
Three fierce rivals are sharing intelligence through the Frontier Model Forum to detect Chinese labs distilling their models — cooperation that looks principled until you notice who benefits.