The Trump administration has been happier talking to Anthropic lately, according to people familiar with the matter: They don’t have to deal with CEO Dario Amodei anymore, because he’s been replaced in meetings about re-releasing the Claude Fable 5 AI model by his cofounder Tom Brown. “Tom Brown is not being a weirdo like Dario … Read more
In May, the White House announced that its new app would be automatically downloaded onto the work phones of millions of government employees. The problem: Federal workers hate it and can’t get rid of it. Employees of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), the State Department, and the Department of Labor (DOL), who spoke to … Read more
The New York Knicks have won the NBA championship, and questions are already swirling about whether they will make a trip to the White House to celebrate with Donald Trump. Trump is famously friendly with Knicks owner James Dolan, who invited the president to attend Game 3 of the NBA Finals in Madison Square Garden. … Read more
The UFC’s event at the White House was the perfect target for a terror attack: America’s elites, clustered around a small octagon in the open air for hours. A chaotic, packed city center. Plenty of cops and soldiers, to be sure, but then again, there are few defenses for a fast, deadly drone. As I … Read more
The Trump administration’s disagreement with Anthropic over its most advanced AI models appears to be fast coming to a head. Trump officials tell Inner Loop that if Anthropic wants to rerelease Claude Fable 5, the AI model that they took offline with export controls last week over concerns about jailbreaking—a method of using prompts to … Read more
T he UFC’s Freedom 250 event on June 14 took over the White House’s South Lawn with an explosion of violence. The event, held specifically on President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday, was the result of a long relationship between Trump and UFC President Dana White, which has crossed political, personal, and professional lines for years. … Read more
Donald Trump has claimed that the massive ballroom he’s affixing to the White House wouldn’t cost taxpayers a dime. Unsurprisingly, the president seems to have been lying through his teeth since the beginning. According to documents obtained by The Washington Post, the White House has known for months that the ballroom would likely cost much … Read more
This past Sunday, Zac Brown delivered one of country music’s most beloved refrains: It’s not political, it’s patriotic. He also performed the national anthem. Brown sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the cage fights held on the South Lawn of the White House, standing honorably on an American flag-themed Monster Energy drink logo, beneath the glow … Read more
Viewers who tuned into the Paramount+ livestream of UFC Freedom 250 on Sunday night, held to mark President Trump’s 80th birthday as well as the nation’s semiquincentennial, were treated to the surreal spectacle of mixed martial artists beating each other bloody in a massive cage installed on the White House lawn. But there was one … Read more
I t is the night before the Ultimate Fighting Championship at the White House and I am in a sticky-table sports bar somewhere in the vicinity of Washington D.C.’s Chinatown listening to a man tell me all about trading cards. I don’t know anything about trading cards, but this guy is really into them. Supposedly … Read more