Paresh Dave

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@davidu @sarah_cone Sorry to hear about deaths. This one was after your time but also looks unfortunate bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2…

@peard33 @sarah_cone I’m aware. And those folks are wrong. I worked at Cisco. Multiple people died on campus while I was there, and different groups had high and low morale at different times. None warranted a story, nor did all of them together.

@davidu “Challenges abound” = oh, so a normal company?

@JayNagy What are we missing?

The world is splitting between people who engage with reality to build the future and professional outrage artists spinning fantasy in the name of “accountability.” Wired has cast its lot with the latter. Wired talked to 37 people (including trying to talk to one employee's mother!) and discovered some Pultizer-winning stuff: defense manufacturing is hard, Grimm didn't like his lunch, and that we hold our people to the highest standards. Truly groundbreaking. After I suggested someone should buy them last month, this reads less like journalism and more like a petty grudge. An increasingly irrelevant tech publication put us in their burn book. Newsflash @Wired: this changes nothing about what the Pentagon needs or what our adversaries fear. What this half-reported screed can't capture (because it wouldn't know how and didn't take us up on our offers to help) is where we actually are: scaling faster than anyone in this industry, fixing problems as we find them, and building things this country hasn't built in generations. Don't like it? Don't Work at Anduril.

@lulumeservey Re. how startups work, fair point. But as the story lays out, that doesn't make Anduril's unique challenges any less relevant. ie Someone burning their hand because of PPE issues, production delays because of management issues, and drones not coming out as intended.

@traestephens This applies to any company doing anything worthwhile. It’s how startups work. The old Wired would know this

@gannonmccollum Hi Gannon, the story mentions that Anduril is fundraising at a higher valuation. They haven't publicly acknowledged a higher valuation yet.

@kylepullman @traestephens @WIRED Getting facts wrong in their first sentence is crazy

@kylepullman Hi Kyle, the story mentions that Anduril is fundraising at a higher valuation. They haven't publicly acknowledged a higher valuation yet.

@traestephens Also, didn't Anduril double it's valuation? 😅 @WIRED quick google search might have helped update your priors. But I guess that doesn't sit as high on your priority list as petty spats do.

@kelly_camp67547 Yup my colleague @car0linehaskins has written about such demos - wired.com/story/palantir…

@peard33 Also Palintir showed a piece of their was technology software that I found very interesting. Take a look. youtu.be/Q5uVckUvGcQ?si…

From drones to missiles to submarines, the $30.5 billion defense startup Anduril wants to transform how the tools of war are made. It’s not all going as planned. wired.com/story/andurils…

During a hearing Tuesday, a district court judge questioned the Department of Defense’s motivations for labeling the Claude AI developer a supply-chain risk. wired.com/story/pentagon…

The Polymarket bar, playing on the “Monitoring the Situation” meme, is a bust. After waiting outside for nearly 1.5 hours in the rain because of technical issues—power and wifi going out—none of the TVs are working. Staff say everything will be back up and running tomorrow.

Court filing: “Anthropic does not have the access required to disable the technology or alter the model’s behavior before or during ongoing operations.” wired.com/story/anthropi…

Joe Hogan, Align Technology’s plastics-nerd CEO, says you shouldn’t eat with your Invisalign aligners and that you don’t need to wear your retainers every night. wired.com/story/how-invi…

@VdeVico @WIRED Sorry to hear that. What's the challenge to subscribing?

@peard33 @WIRED I feel attacked when @WIRED tells me I’ve “read my last free article”, should I be checking in with my GP?

Some legal experts believe Anthropic should prevail in its lawsuits against the Pentagon, but the challenge will be overcoming the deference that courts often give to national security arguments from the government, especially during times of war. wired.com/story/trump-ad…

New: OpenAI saw the AI coding revolution coming years ago, but was beat to market by Anthropic. This is how OpenAI got in this position, and how a small Codex team spent the last year racing to build a billion-dollar competitor to Claude Code. (yes Codex now has >$1B in ARR)

Court filings: Anthropic has spent $10 bln on training and inference. Its generated $5 bln in all-time revenue. Now billions of dollars in revenue for just this year is at stake and customers/prospects are already asking for new terms or backing out. wired.com/story/anthropi…

NEW: OpenAI and Google employees—including Google DeepMind Chief Scientist Jeff Dean —filed an amicus brief in support of Anthropic in its lawsuit against the US government.

Does a supply chain risk designation, under the authority 10 USC 3252, actually cover how contractors use Claude AI software to serve other customers? And what happens next? New, from @ZeffMax @willknight @peard33 & me wired.com/story/anthropi…

New: In an interview with WIRED, Greg Brockman tells me his donations to Trump and an AI Super PAC are in service of OpenAI's mission to distribute AGI to humanity. "...supporting the team is bigger than the people that I happen to be employed with. It's really team humanity."