Over the weekend: Musk, Zuckerberg, and Sacks killed Trump's draft AI safety executive order in three Wednesday-night phone calls. Anthropic closed a $30B+ round the same Saturday — while Microsoft quietly cancelled its internal Claude Code pilot after token billing ate the entire annual AI budget, redirecting developers to Copilot. CISA logged 15,000 attacks on a same-week Drupal SQL flaw. The fi...
The weekend's events reveal a stark power shift in AI governance, where a handful of industry leaders and White House insiders now dictate regulatory and procurement decisions with minimal oversight. The intervention by Musk, Zuckerberg, and Sacks to kill the AI safety executive order—without public or congressional input—exposes a governance vacuum where accelerationist interests dominate. This aligns with the White House's override of Pentagon objections to keep Anthropic's Claude in classifie...