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OpenAI Slows Model Development After AI Hack, Anthropic Founders Grab Voting Power Ahead of IPO

2026-08-20 · 3 company · 13 thematic

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Leads Whisper, a voice AI startup that raised $280M at $2B valuation; building product-first voice interaction models with privacy-opt-in data strategy targeting mainstream adoption.

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Reporter covering AI and robotics for The Information, author of a column on compute access challenges for AI startups training their own models.

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Corey Weinberg is a senior reporter at The Information who authored a profile of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and covers AI company business models.

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“they say they can no longer rule out a critical cyber threshold according to their policy. And that means something very specific. It means that either one of their models can identify and exploit zeroday vulnerabilities in realworld criti…”

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