Kate Clark

It’s my first day at The Wall Street Journal covering startups, VC, AI and more. Confidential tips welcome: kate.clark@wsj.com | Signal: 415-409-9095.

In the middle of a growth spurt for women’s basketball, sparked by Caitlin Clark, the WNBA reached a collective-bargaining agreement with record increases to the salary cap and league minimums. 🔗 on.wsj.com/3PQ6u75

Breaking: Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100 billion for a new fund that would buy manufacturing companies and use AI to automate them wsj.com/tech/jeff-bezo…

Coatue values Kalshi at $22 billion, scoop from @ychernova wsj.com/articles/kalsh…

Companies that now regularly use artificial intelligence are starting to track their workers’ use of tokens, AI’s unit of measurement on.wsj.com/473nAnZ

I went on a journey to get Trump's personal cell phone number. It took me about five minutes. My piece on the media's new favorite Trump gimmick, and how the White House feels about the endless stream of "exclusive" 30 second phone interviews w/Trump semafor.com/article/03/15/…

scoop - OpenAI’s Fidji Simo told staff last week that the company could not afford to be “distracted by side quests” as Anthropic gains steam in the enterprise and coding markets said company execs are actively looking at areas to deprioritize wsj.com/tech/ai/openai…

Join our team and write about the people and forces shaping markets. Huge bets on AI. Macro trades affecting nations. Succession dramas. Individual investors making exotic wagers. Requires first-class reporting and the writing to do it justice. dowjones.jobs/new-york-ny/re…

Here is an early look at the front page of today's Wall Street Journal on.wsj.com/4sifnor

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…

What are your bots up to? A dispatch from San Francisco. wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-bot…

Businessweek’s cover story and Bloomberg’s Big Take is an excerpt of my book, Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare (giftlink below)

What are your bots up to? It’s the hottest topic in Silicon Valley, where people compete to see how much work they can outsource to AI without things backfiring spectacularly. on.wsj.com/4lrOZpt

Rivian CEO raises $500 million "Series A" for industrial robotics venture: wsj.com/business/entre…

In defense of Dubai. A very personal essay about the city on the cover of today’s @WSJ Review. wsj.com/world/middle-e…

NEW: Kalshi and Polymarket are each talking to investors about raising money. They both are eyeing a $20 billion valuation. Big numbers amid big scrutiny. Scoop with @KateClarkTweets wsj.com/finance/kalshi…

NEW: A fraternity that counts Jeff Bezos' stepson as a member under investigation for insider trading. Polymarket-branded beer pong sets. $20,000 in funding to open a prediction market club. Here's how prediction markets are gaining ground on campus. wsj.com/business/media…

SCOOP: The Pentagon has formally notified Anthropic that it’s deemed the artificial intelligence company and its products a risk to the US supply chain, according to a senior defense official. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told employees on Friday that the OpenAI-Pentagon deal was "safety theater" and the Trump administration didn't like Anthropic because it hadn't "given dictator-style praise to Trump." He expressed skepticism at the safeguards OpenAI touted.

Sources: Arda, co-founded by ex-OpenAI chief research officer Bob McGrew to automate manufacturing using AI, is raising $70M at a $700M valuation (Wall Street Journal) wsj.com/tech/ai/openai… #a260304p30" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260304/p30#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Founders Fund, Accel, Khosla & XYZ funding former OpenAI Chief Research Officer's startup at $700M valuation:wsj.com/tech/ai/openai… w/ @MeghanBobrowsky