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OpenAI files confidential IPO papers today. Anthropic, the safety alternative, is paying Elon Musk's company $1.25 billion a month, and either side can walk in 90 days.
OpenAI filed confidentially with the SEC today. SpaceX's IPO filing revealed Anthropic's $40 billion compute deal with xAI has a 90-day exit clause. Trump pulled the AI executive order. Minneapolis paused data centers (downtown exempt). Samsung's union started voting on a $340,000 average AI-revenue bonus.
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Read the full analysis on Substack ›1. OpenAI files confidential IPO papers with the SEC today. The company you talk to is about to owe Wall Street a fiduciary duty.
If you use ChatGPT for work, for school, for personal things you do not type into Google, the company holding those conversations is about to become legally obligated to put shareholder returns ahead of every other priority.
cnbc.com: OpenAI to confidentially file for IPO as soon as Friday
2. SpaceX's IPO papers exposed Anthropic's $40 billion compute deal. The 90-day exit clause means it can vanish in three months.
If you picked Claude for work because you were told Anthropic was the safety-first lab, the SpaceX IPO papers just told you that every Claude conversation you send is running on compute rented from Elon Musk's company at $1.25 billion a month, and the contract holding that arran…
techcrunch.com: Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25 billion per month for compute
3. Trump pulled the AI executive order hours before signing it. Federal pre-release review of frontier models just got punted.
If you wondered whether the federal government would test new AI models before they get into the phone in your pocket, the bank app your paycheck deposits into, or the chatbot that talks to your kid for homework, that pre-release review just got cancelled.
cnbc.com: Trump postpones AI executive order signing: 'I didn't like certain aspects'
4. Minneapolis paused new data centers Thursday. The downtown core, where developers were already lining up, stayed open.
If you live in or work in downtown Minneapolis, the rule the city council just passed paused the data centers your neighbors on the edges did not want but kept the door open for new ones inside your skyline.
startribune.com: Minneapolis council approves 6-month moratorium on data centers, downtown exempt
5. Forty-eight thousand Samsung chip workers start voting today on a deal that pays them $340,000 each from AI bonus pool.
If you work somewhere your company has been telling you AI is going to make the business more profitable and that profit needs to go to shareholders first, the 48,000 chip workers in Korea just gave you a template for a different answer.
france24.com: Samsung union to start vote on tentative wage deal