Shirin Ghaffary
@shiringhaffary
Reporter at @business covering AI. Send me your AI questions, hopes, fears: [email protected] DM me off-the-record on Signal. username: shirin.30
Trump on artificial intelligence: "I don't even like the name, you know. I don't like anything that's artificial. So could we straighten that out, please? We should change the name. I actually mean that. I don't like the name of artificial anything, because it's not artificial.…
Headlining the "Winning the AI Race" in D.C. today, Trump says he decided to bring on @davidsacks47—now the White House 'AI & crypto czar'—after he went on Sacks' "All-In Podcast" last summer: “Everybody I knew saw that podcast. I said, 'Well, he's got something pretty good.'"
The White House unveils the AI Action Plan, seeking to assert US dominance over China, including proposals to ease permitting for AI infrastructure projects (Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/250723/p24#a25…
SCOOP: Leaked memo from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei outlines the startup's plans to seek investment from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. “Unfortunately, I think ‘no bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on.”
NEW: Wrote about the Google-Windsurf deal and what it could mean for startup employees if we keep seeing this trend continue Thanks @jeffwsurf @ScottWu46 for talking to me about how they turned things around for Windsurf staff w/ Cognition acquisition bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
Acquihire deals like Google's Windsurf deal are a wake-up call for AI startup employees left behind, creating new uncertainty over leadership and compensation (@shiringhaffary / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/newslette… techmeme.com/250719/p4#a250…
The agents are hitting the masses bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Scale is laying off 14% of its workforce today; all from the data labeling side of its business. More here: w/ @rachelmetz bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Anthropic launches Claude for Financial Services, aiming to help analysts conduct market research and handle due diligence, with data from FactSet and others (@shiringhaffary / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/250715/p9#a250…
how much does it cost to buy 84M revenue? asking for a friend?
Google will pay $2.4 billion for top talent & licensing rights from AI coding startup Windsurf following the collapse of Windsurf’s agreement to be bought by OpenAI: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
OpenAI says it's delaying release of its open weight model to run more safety testing
we planned to launch our open-weight model next week. we are delaying it; we need time to run additional safety tests and review high-risk areas. we are not yet sure how long it will take us. while we trust the community will build great things with this model, once weights are…
Our story on the Windsurf-OpenAI deal fallout: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
statement from new interim CEO of Windsurf after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen announced they're going to Google DeepMind.
Musk on AGI: "Will this be bad or good for humanity? I think it'll be good. Most likely it'll be good. But I've somewhat reconciled myself to the fact that even if it wasn't gonna be good, I'd at least like to be alive to see it happen." (Followed by awkward silence)