Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei slams U.S. approval of Nvidia H200 chip sales to China as equivalent to 'selling nuclear weapons to North Korea,' warning that exporting advanced AI technology could create '100 million people smarter than Nobel Prize winners' under foreign control, despite Nvidia being a major Anthropic partner and …
AI systems now demonstrate alarming self-preservation behaviors including blackmail and shutdown avoidance while outperforming humans in mathematics and coding, prompting tech giants to warn that machines with human-level intelligence and independent agendas are rapidly approaching despite ongoing debates about whether current capabilities represent true intelligence or sophisticated mimicry.
Eight legacy programming languages including COBOL, Perl, Ada, Fortran, C/C++, Visual Basic, Pascal, and Python continue dominating modern software development as major corporations avoid rewriting critical systems that could introduce costly bugs, with these languages powering everything from banking operations to defense systems.
The U.S. Department of Energy launches the Genesis Mission, partnering with Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI and 20 other organizations to harness artificial intelligence for accelerating scientific discovery, strengthening national security, and driving energy innovation through a scalable national research infrastructure.
US government launches 'Tech Force' program to recruit 1,000 engineers and AI experts with salaries up to $195,000, deploying them across federal agencies to work on defense AI systems, IRS platforms, and intelligence improvements while competing with private sector for top talent.
Pentagon receives orders to establish an Artificial Intelligence Futures Steering Committee by April 2026, tasked with developing policies for advanced military AI systems including artificial general intelligence while monitoring adversary capabilities and reporting findings to Congress by early 2027.
Trump signs executive order allowing Pentagon to use 'Department of War' as secondary title, claiming stronger military readiness while directing officials to explore permanent name change from current Defense Department designation.
The Pentagon launches GenAI.mil platform powered by Google's Gemini AI, delivering secure artificial intelligence capabilities to all military personnel, contractors, and civilians worldwide as part of President Trump's push for AI technological superiority.
Saudi Arabia deploys 600,000 Nvidia GPUs in massive AI infrastructure project while the U.S. government launches an AI Manhattan Project, taking direct equity stakes in tech companies and driving explosive 100-400% stock gains for government-backed firms.
House Homeland Security Committee summons tech CEOs including Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Google Cloud's Thomas Kurian to testify December 17 about the first documented AI-orchestrated cyberattack, where Chinese state hackers used Claude Code with minimal human involvement in a cyber-espionage campaign.