Talent, Capital, and Law: AI's Three-Front Week
Google loses two marquee researchers to rivals, Congress moves on an AI incident-reporting bill, and hyperscaler infrastructure spending nears $700B — all in the same week.
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When Washington Pulls the Plug: Export Controls, Talent Defection, and the New Rules of Frontier AI
The U.S. government's forced takedown of Anthropic's most capable models—combined with a cascade of senior talent departures from Google DeepMind—signals that frontier AI is now an explicit instrument of national security policy.
Frontier AI's Worst Week: Export Controls Ground Anthropic's Top Models as Google Loses Two Stars
A U.S. export control order forced Anthropic to pull its two most advanced models offline, while Google DeepMind lost Nobel laureate John Jumper and Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer in a single week.