Amrith Ramkumar

Reporter @WSJ covering tech and crypto policy. @dukechronicle alum. Reach me at [email protected].

[Anissa Gardizy @anissagardizy8]

SCOOP: SpaceX is in talks with the Defense Department about providing the agency with access to data-center capacity worth billions of dollars

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[Internal Tech Emails @TechEmails]

Further reading from @AmrithRamkumar, @heathersomervil, and @chiquiesteban: https://t.co/0mu6x3kVZt

[Dave Brown @dave_brown24]

Read the Emails Revealing How Anthropic’s Pentagon Relationship Fell Apart
https://t.co/vNXhEFgSlG @AmrithRamkumar @heathersomervil @chiquiesteban

[Meghan Bobrowsky @MeghanBobrowsky]

Fable may be back, but not everyone is relieved.

I went to a rally in San Francisco last night where @sqs @DanielleFong and 50 other attendees talked about how they're still concerned about gov't gatekeeping over AI models.

[Amol Sharma @asharma]

“He played a better game than I did.” Trump's fans are coming to terms with the fact that they got crushed on the very crypto coins that helped the president earn $1.4 billion last year. @Vlajournaliste @DavidUberti @AmrithRamkumar https://t.co/4xKq5bp6Oe

[Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu12]

NEW - Dems' "Project 2029" first major policy proposal: an online child safety plan — narrowing Sec. 230, banning social media for kids under 16, promoting phone-free childhoods and more

Already backed by Cory Booker, Mikie Sherrill, Randi Weingarten + Jonathan Haidt

[Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ]

China Has Matched Anthropic in Cybersecurity, Resetting AI Race—Clampdown on top U.S. artificial intelligence is fueling concern Washington is handing Beijing a cyberwarfare advantage
@bobmcmillan @raffaelehuang @AmrithRamkumar
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[Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ]

Why the Memory Crunch Is Almost Impossible to Solve—Prices soar because capacity isn’t growing quickly, while China option is limited by national-security concerns
@AmrithRamkumar @RolfeWinkler @raffaelehuang
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[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

He sounded the alarm about AI threats—and now he’s part of a team arguing for the latest models to be released https://t.co/9FPTrpupy8

[Amrith Ramkumar @AmrithRamkumar]

Full story on Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini and the latest talks with the government to get model access restored w/ @bobmcmillan:
https://t.co/3EXK2mt6pc

[Amrith Ramkumar @AmrithRamkumar]

New nugget in our latest story on the Anthropic Fable saga:

Dario Amodei told Howard Lutnick "This means we can't have the model out" Friday after learning of the ban on foreign use.

"That's the point," the Commerce Secretary said.

[Amrith Ramkumar @AmrithRamkumar]

Latest on Anthropic racing to resolve the Fable saga w/ @bobmcmillan: Trump officials held calls for hours Saturday w/ execs including Tom Brown and Sarah Heck.

Top Anthropic technical staff in DC now include Nicholas Carlini and Logan Graham:

https://t.co/KyZxFLyN3F

[Amrith Ramkumar @AmrithRamkumar]

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[Amrith Ramkumar @AmrithRamkumar]

New from me—Trump signed off on Friday's move to ban foreign use of Anthropic's latest AI model and a call between Amazon's Andy Jassy and Scott Bessent about potential issues with the model got many in the White House worried.

[Janet Egan @janet_e_egan]

Reporting by @AmrithRamkumar: https://t.co/Nqn8vmkwIl

[Amrith Ramkumar @AmrithRamkumar]

Ron DeSantis responding to my latest story on the wave of bills from Democrats seeking to regulate AI, including a new one from Adam Schiff on guardrails for the Pentagon's use of the technology:
https://t.co/RSnl3VAel5

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

I doubt Democrats will produce good policy re: AI, but Republicans have allowed them to capitalize on public concern about the power and influence of Big Tech by failing to adopt a sensible framework that will protect the public from the very real downsides of the technology.

A policy that says transhumanists in Silicon Valley should be able to do what they want is not an acceptable approach, nor is it a politically viable approach.

[Jeff Stein @jstein_star]

Wall Street Journal confirming our reporting today, with some new details that gov shares in OpenAi could go to Trump account-type program by @AmrithRamkumar & co

[Heather Somerville @heathersomervil]

Scoop w/ ⁦@AmrithRamkumar⁩: Trump administration is in negotiations to fund U.S. drone startups with new debt-and-equity deals (including one company linked to Donald Trump Jr.) https://t.co/zscwCxmV8Z

[Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ]

David Sacks’s 11th-Hour Plea Led to Trump’s Backtrack on AI Executive Order—The move marked a win for business-minded officials wary of Chinese competition
@AmrithRamkumar @natalieandrews @MeghanBobrowsky
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https://t.co/wlkcFQQkew

[Heather Somerville @heathersomervil]

NEW: U.S. to Award Quantum-Computing Firms $2 Billion and Take Equity Stakes
W/ ⁦@AmrithRamkumar⁩ https://t.co/6UM2Gi4yiw