Gail Weiner

What a working lunch in Évian tells you about the week access to AI stopped being something you buy. As I write this, a working lunch is underway in Évian-les-Bains. The G7 heads of state are at the table. So are the people who build the models the G7 now spends its summits worrying about: Sam Altman of OpenAI, Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, Dario Amodei of Anthropic. Seated alongside them are Arthur Mensch of Mistral and Aidan Gomez of Cohere, Europe's and Canada's frontier hopefuls....

I started in tech in 2001. I was young, and so was the industry. Walk into any room and almost everyone was under forty, because the field itself was barely older than that. For a stretch a few years ago I caught myself wondering if I was going to be the oldest person in every room I walked into. Then I looked around properly. The people I started with are all still here. We're in our late forties and fifties now, and we didn't age out of the industry. The industry aged with us. The youth...

On Friday evening, at 5:21pm Eastern, the US Commerce Department sent Anthropic a letter. By the time most of the country had logged off for the weekend, the two most capable AI models on the planet, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, were dark for everyone. A lot of people found out the way I did: opening their tools and being told the model no longer existed. The directive does not ban Americans. It bans every foreign national, wherever they live and whoever they work for, including Anthropic's own...