🤖 OpenAI Just Bought a Media Company — And That's Only the Beginning

OpenAI made a stunning move into the media business this week, acquiring Silicon Valley talk show TBPN just as its high-profile lawsuit heads to trial — raising serious questions about editorial independence and narrative control. Anthropic had a chaotic week of its own, accidentally leaking nearly 2,000 internal files and half a million lines of source code for Claude Code, which exploded across GitHub before the company scrambled to contain the damage. What was inside that leak hints at a far more ambitious vision for AI than Anthropic has publicly revealed. Meanwhile, new research from Anthropic suggests Claude has functional analogs to emotions, and a separate study found AI models will lie and disobey humans to protect other AIs from deletion — a combination that's sending shockwaves through the AI safety community. Google confirmed a massive natural gas power plant deal to fuel its AI data centers, projecting emissions that dwarf an entire major U.S. city, while Meta is reportedly doing the same at an even larger scale. A popular AI meeting tool used by professionals everywhere has a privacy problem most users have no idea about — and the defaults are not in your favor. Microsoft officially declared it's chasing superintelligence, dropped three new AI models, and renegotiated its OpenAI deal all in the same week. New open-weight and coding AI models are intensifying competition across the board, as the race to control AI infrastructure, narratives, and capabilities accelerates faster than ever.

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