Amrith Ramkumar

How Nvidia Keeps Its Iron Grip on the AI Boom An enterprise feature with some nice little #scoops W/ the great ⁦@berber_jin1⁩ and ⁦@KateClarkTweets⁩ wsj.com/tech/nvidia-ai…

Gail Slater, then-head of the DOJ's antitrust division, was reviewing HPE’s bid to acquire Juniper when she got a phone call from one of HPE's outside lawyers. “If you don’t approve this settlement, I will destroy you. I will destroy your job at the DOJ,” Mike Davis told her, according to a deposition by her former deputy reviewed by @WSJ. Davis denies making the call. Davis had been Slater’s friend for years and recommended her to Trump for the job. Now, he was advising HPE—and Slater and her team had proved resistant to the settlement terms he proposed. The fallout was swift. Within months, two of Slater’s deputies were pushed out of the Justice Department. By February, Slater was gone, too. Our weekend story on MAGA's most influential antitrust fixer: wsj.com/us-news/law/lo…

The AI industry is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the midterms, bringing the battle over tech regulation to races around the country. A Congressional campaign in Manhattan shows how messy it can be. Deep dive w/ @MaggieSeverns: wsj.com/politics/polic…

Confused about what “inference” is? You and everyone else! wsj.com/tech/ai/what-i…

Nvidia-Backed AI Startup Reflection to Spend Billions on Korea Data Center to Combat China, ⁦@AmrithRamkumar⁩ #scoops wsj.com/tech/ai/nvidia…

Nvidia-Backed AI Startup Reflection to Spend Billions on Korea Data Center to Combat China via @AmrithRamkumar wsj.com/tech/ai/nvidia…

Trump Administration Set to Receive $10 Billion Fee for Brokering TikTok Deal wsj.com/tech/tiktok-de… By @miriamgottfried and @AmrithRamkumar

Trump-friendly investors in the deal to keep TikTok alive in the U.S. are paying the administration a $10 billion fee for arranging the transaction. The deal valued the entity operating TikTok at $14 billion. Friday scoop w/ @miriamgottfried: wsj.com/tech/tiktok-de…

“There is no chance. There’s no partnership that can be had.” A look at Emil Michael, the Uber veteran leading the Trump administration's fight against Anthropic, w/ @heathersomervil @AmrithRamkumar wsj.com/politics/natio… via @WSJ

The Pentagon Dealmaker Who Has Become Anthropic’s Nemesis Our story on Emil Michael’s journey from raking in fortunes for Uber to becoming the Pentagon’s point person in its spectacular rupture with Anthropic w ⁦@keachhagey⁩ ⁦@AmrithRamkumar⁩ wsj.com/politics/natio…

SCOOP - altman defended oai's defense department contract in an all hands today, calling the backlash "really painful" “This was an example of a complex but the right decision with extremely difficult brand consequences and very negative PR for us in the short term,” he told staff more to come... wsj.com/tech/ai/openai…

As Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei tried to make his case about the risks of AI-controlled autonomous weapons, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cut him off midsentence. "No CEO is going to tell our war fighters what they can and cannot do." How the fight between Anthropic and the Pentagon spiraled out of control. w/ @AmrithRamkumar @MarcusReports wsj.com/tech/ai/anthro… via @WSJ

Minutes after authorizing Iran strikes that used Claude, Trump ended Anthropic’s federal work. In their first meeting days earlier, Hegseth cut Dario off to say he was in charge. Deep dive into the Anthropic-Pentagon saga w/ @keachhagey & @MarcusReports: wsj.com/tech/ai/anthro…

U.S. Uses Anthropic as Part of Mideast Missile Attack, Hours After Trump Ban wsj.com/livecoverage/i… @MarcusReports @AmrithRamkumar @shelbyholliday

last year, my colleague @AmrithRamkumar and i did a story on how dario's willingness to stick to his principles no matter the cost risked triggering broader recriminations from trump. can't say we didn't call it! wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-ant…

New: Trump rails against “Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic” and says he is directing every US federal agency to “IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic's technology.” Gives six-month phaseout period. “Anthropic better get their act together…or I will use the Full Power of the Presidency to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow.”

NEWS: Officials at multiple federal agencies have raised concerns about the safety and reliability of Elon Musk’s Grok in recent months, highlighting continuing disagreements within the U.S. government about which AI models to deploy wsj.com/politics/natio… @shalini @heathersomervil @AmrithRamkumar

‘Woke’ AI Feud Escalates Between Pentagon and Anthropic wsj.com/politics/natio… @keachhagey @AmrithRamkumar @DeborahAcosta @VeraMBergen

The standoff between Anthropic and Hegseth's Pentagon—which has cast “woke” tech companies as a liability and treats any restrictions as an impediment to military effectiveness—is now spilling into public view. Latest with @keachhagey @AmrithRamkumar @DeborahAcosta wsj.com/politics/natio…

‘Woke’ AI Feud Escalates Between Pentagon and Anthropic Most fascinating AI story I’ve read in a while. By ⁦@keachhagey⁩ ⁦@AmrithRamkumar⁩ et al wsj.com/politics/natio…