Air Street Press Guide to AI: June 2025
Jun 8, 2025
Explore the latest trends in AI policy and industry, including the geopolitical stakes of data centers. Discover innovative technologies like Alpha Evolve and their roles in scientific advancement. Dive into the self-improving Darwin Goodall machine that tweaks its own coding. Learn about the LaVita model's groundbreaking AI techniques and recent startup funding trends. Finally, catch up on major acquisitions, including OpenAI's significant buyout of Windsurf and Regeneron's strategic moves in drug discovery.
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AI Factory as National Infrastructure
- The AI factory metaphor reframes data centers as strategic national infrastructure akin to manufacturing plants.
- This concept aligns corporate AI investments with nationalist industrial policies, fueling massive geopolitical projects.
Anthropic Surges Amid Meta Struggles
- Meta struggles with large model efficiency while Anthropic rapidly advances with practical integrations and superior performance.
- Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 leads in benchmarks and supports extended autonomous operation, ideal for persistent AI agents.
OpenAI Leads, Meta Joins Military
- OpenAI dominates U.S. business AI subscriptions by a large margin.
- Meta pivots toward military applications by co-developing extended reality battlefield hardware, marking big tech's open embrace of defense.