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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on April 17. The meeting capped a two-month standoff over Mythos. Frontier AI labs are now strategic counterparties to the federal government, not just contractors.
The three largest US grocery operators are building payment systems that bypass card networks entirely. The interchange war just found its front line.
Kalshi is building the same trust infrastructure that took the payments industry decades to establish. Criminal charges, restraining orders, and federal legislation say the clock is ticking.
Anthropic refused to remove Claude's safety restrictions for military use. The Pentagon classified it as a supply chain risk. Now Microsoft, 37 AI researchers, 22 former military leaders, and civil rights groups have filed briefs in its defence.
Frank Bisignano built the infrastructure that processes 44 percent of America's card payments. Now he is restructuring the agency that collects $5.1 trillion in taxes. The playbook is familiar. The stakes are not.