AI & Technology — The Sideline

Anthropic Gets Kneecapped by the Trump Administration — And the Winners Aren't Who You Think

The Trump administration just forced Anthropic to pull its two newest AI models offline — and the real story isn't about security vulnerabilities. It's about political vendettas, regulatory whiplash, and what it means to build infrastructure on top of a vendor one executive order can disappear.

Dispatch desk · Jun 22, 2026

AI Safety & Policy

Cory Doctorow's "The Reverse Centaur" Is the AI Book the Industry Doesn't Want You to Read

Cory Doctorow's latest book skips the AI hype and goes straight for the hidden costs—dissecting how "automated" systems are quietly powered by invisible, exploited human labor.

Dispatch desk · Jun 22, 2026

AI Startups

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AI Startups

Barret Zoph's OpenAI Comeback Lasts All of Five Months

Barret Zoph has left OpenAI for the second time, just five months after returning to lead the company's enterprise sales push — and the pattern of executive churn is worth more scrutiny than a simple departure notice.

Dispatch desk · Jun 19, 2026

AI Hardware

Amazon Wants to Sell Trainium Chips to the World — And It Might Actually Be Nvidia's Biggest Headache Yet

Amazon is in talks to sell its Trainium AI chips directly to third-party data centers—a move that could build a $50 billion chip business and put real pressure on Nvidia. The demand is there, but the path from shareholder letter to actual silicon sales is littered with supply chain landmines.

Dispatch desk · Jun 19, 2026

Nobel Prize Winner John Jumper Bails on DeepMind for Anthropic — And He's Not Alone

Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold researcher John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly nine years — and he's the second high-profile departure from DeepMind this week alone.

OpenAI Is Stacking the Deck Before Its IPO—And It's Making Interesting Choices

OpenAI is adding Transformer co-author Noam Shazeer and former White House AI policy official Dean Ball to its roster ahead of its IPO—and the combination reveals exactly where the company thinks its real vulnerabilities are.

The Sideline.

Anthropic Gets Kneecapped by the Trump Administration — And the Winners Aren't Who You Think

Cory Doctorow's "The Reverse Centaur" Is the AI Book the Industry Doesn't Want You to Read

Barret Zoph's OpenAI Comeback Lasts All of Five Months

Amazon Wants to Sell Trainium Chips to the World — And It Might Actually Be Nvidia's Biggest Headache Yet

Nobel Prize Winner John Jumper Bails on DeepMind for Anthropic — And He's Not Alone

OpenAI Is Stacking the Deck Before Its IPO—And It's Making Interesting Choices

The White House Wants Anthropic to Fix Jailbreaking. Here's Why That's Basically Impossible.

Anthropic Got Kneecapped by Export Rules Nobody Bothered to Explain

Washington Yanks the Plug on Anthropic's Fable 5: What Sudden AI Export Bans Actually Mean for the Rest of the World

Slapping "AI" on Your Brand Is Backfiring — And the Numbers Prove It

Anthropic's Government Feud Is Somehow Its Best Marketing Campaign Yet