The Trump Administration's Secret to Making Progress With Anthropic? Not Speaking to Dario Amodei - WIRED

This WIRED article explores the Trump administration's approach to advancing artificial intelligence, particularly in its collaboration with AI startup Anthropic. A key insight is that progress was ma... Read original →

The Trump administration’s indirect engagement with Anthropic—bypassing co-founder Dario Amodei—reflects a tactical retreat from the thorny terrain of AI ethics regulation. This approach funnels AI compute demand toward NVIDIA, whose chips underpin large-model training, while TSMC’s monopoly on sub-7nm nodes amplifies geopolitical risk premiums. Compliance costs will rise 10–15% as firms erect ‘policy buffer layers’ via third parties to interface with regulators. Competitors like OpenAI and Google may adopt similar ‘founder-avoidant’ strategies to insulate R&D from political scrutiny. Over the next 12–24 months, U.S.-led AI safety standards will morph into de facto technical alliances, pressuring global supply chains—especially advanced semiconductor manufacturing in Taiwan, China—to align strategically. The endgame is not ethics, but computational sovereignty.