Anthropic spent months asking Washington to regulate frontier AI. Friday night, the Trump administration delivered. A surprise export control directive shut foreign access to Claude overnight, days after CEO Dario Amodei published an essay about responsible testing. Careful what you wish for. Also today: the hyperscalers are running out of cash, SpaceX buys Cursor for sixty billion, and Android becomes an intelligence system. Let's get into it.
1. Anthropic Wanted Regulation, Got Export Controls (CNBC)
2. Big Tech Running Out of Cash for AI (247wallst.com)
3. SpaceX Acquires Cursor for Sixty Billion Dollars (The Rundown AI)
4. DeepSeek Raises Over Seven Billion at Fifty Billion Valuation (The Rundown AI)
5. World Model Startup Odyssey Hits Unicorn Status (TechCrunch AI)
6. Android 17 Turns Apps Into AI Tools (TLDR AI)
7. OpenAI's AI Chemist Optimizes Drug Reactions Autonomously (OpenAI News)