Dan Cox, Axios' chief technology officer, isn't a journalist, but his AI insights are vital to our readers. We want to show, not just tell, the impact AI is having on companies — in this case, Axios.
So we asked Dan to share what it's like to live the AI revolution. What his team is experiencing will soon hit lawyers, marketers, accountants, consultants ... and journalists. Here's what Dan told us:
One of our best engineers recently completed a project similar to one he delivered a year ago.
Last year, it took three weeks. This past week, he used AI-based "agent teams" and completed the same amount of work in 37 minutes.
AI is evolving faster than the systems designed to evaluate it, meaning a lot of the scientific research you may read is already out of date by the time it's published.
Why it matters: If AI's going to change the world, those charged with thinking about it most critically will have to learn to keep up — or risk presenting misinformation themselves.
The White House is pressuring a Utah Republican state legislator to abandon AI transparency and kids' safety legislation, sources familiar with the matter told Axios.
Why it matters: It's a sign that the Trump administration is now starting to intervene with the states in its efforts to squash AI regulation.
The Pentagon is considering severing its relationship with Anthropic over the AI firm's insistence on maintaining some limitations on how the military uses its models, a senior administration official told Axios.
Why it matters: The Pentagon is pushing four leading AI labs to let the military use their tools for "all lawful purposes," even in the most sensitive areas of weapons development, intelligence collection, and battlefield operations. Anthropic has not agreed to those terms, and the Pentagon is getting fed up after months of difficult negotiations.
The U.S. military used Anthropic's Claude AI model during the operation to capture Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, two sources with knowledge of the situation told Axios.
Now, the blowback may threaten the company's business with the Pentagon.
The latest: After reports on the use of Claude in the raid, a senior administration official told Axios that the Pentagon would be reevaluating its partnership with Anthropic.
