Amrith Ramkumar

Meet the Anthropic executive who convinced the White House and Elon Musk that the company isn’t woke: 6-foot-6 Tom Brown bought a house in Washington and appealed to Republicans while tackling the company’s compute shortage: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/tom-...

Behind the scenes of Tuesday’s White House AI meeting, CEOs including Jensen Huang questioned Dario Amodei in the Roosevelt Room about his dire warnings about AI risks, a sign of lingering tension despite the show of unity: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/tech...

The AI backlash is so strong that it is uniting populists on the far right and left like Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders and spurring a flood of campaign ads. Our look at the political horseshoe issue: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Call it the backlash to the backlash—Unions and building trades say they will oppose candidates attacking data centers, putting Democrats and other long-term allies in a pickle: www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Data centers are now so politically toxic that the politicians who backed them are fully retreating, fueling an industry crisis going into the midterms and 2028. Our latest on the AI backlash: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

OpenAI and other leading AI labs are getting a flurry of queries about making biological weapons and poisons, worrying administration officials and experts who see the trend as one of the next big risks associated with AI: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

The only thing growing faster than the AI industry may be Americans’ negative feelings about it. Fears about energy prices, job losses, and the impact on children are fueling the growing backlash: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...

On a recent call with the top AI CEOs, JD Vance warned that models like Mythos pose cyber threats to small town banks and hospitals. Now a chaotic White House response has allies worried more regulation lies ahead: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/trum...

Anthropic wants to expand access to its powerful Mythos model, but the White House opposes the move. The relationship remains complicated despite recent steps to de-escalate the conflict: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/whit...

Trump is sticking with his industry-friendly approach to AI despite polls showing voters want regulation. It's a strategy MAGA allies worry will hurt Republicans in the midterms: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-p...

The AI industry is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the midterms, bringing the battle over tech regulation to races around the country. A Congressional campaign in Manhattan shows how messy it can be: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump-friendly investors in the deal to keep TikTok alive in the U.S. are paying the administration a $10 billion fee for arranging the transaction. The deal valued the entity operating TikTok at $14 billion. Our Friday scoop: www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...

Minutes after authorizing Iran strikes that used Claude, Trump ended Anthropic’s federal work. In their first meeting days earlier, Hegseth cut Dario off to say he was in charge. Our deep dive into the Anthropic-Pentagon saga: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

The AI backlash now spans red and blue areas from Arizona to Virginia, fueling fights over data-center construction while challenging Trump's industry-friendly tech strategy: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Jamie Dimon told Coinbase's Brian Armstrong he is " full of s—" in Davos. Other bank execs blew him off. Inside their high-stakes policy fight with big implications for the future of finance: www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

TSMC is maybe the most important company few people have heard about. The chip manufacturer's expansion plans outside Taiwan have huge implications for the economy and the U.S.-China relationship: www.wsj.com/tech/taiwan-...

At an Oval Office meeting in November, Jensen Huang told Trump the patchwork of state rules could cost the U.S. the AI race. Shortly afterward, Trump suggested an executive order that’s now a flashpoint in MAGA world: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...

A few months ago, Jensen Huang said he disagreed with almost everything Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said. Now he is investing $10 billion in Amodei's company as the AI dealmaking spree continues: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvid...

An under-the-radar policy working its way through Congress has Amazon and Microsoft on one side and key chip designer Nvidia on the other. It's an unusual split that shows chip export policy is getting messier: www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-...

Top Trump advisors shot down the idea of exporting a new Nvidia chip to China before the Trump-XI meeting, a setback for Jensen Huang in his quest to maintain access to the Chinese market: www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Jensen Huang and some senior administration officials are frustrated a May deal to send Nvidia chips to the UAE isn't moving forward, increasing pressure on Howard Lutnick to finalize the agreement: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Even after the White House said the $100,000 H-1B fee is a one-time payment, Howard Lutnick continues to support an annual fee and officials are still discussing that option. That and more nuggets on the policy in our latest story: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The Trump administration is expected to get a multibillion-dollar fee from investors in the TikTok deal, the government's latest lucrative deal with the private sector: www.wsj.com/business/dea...

One of the only CEOs taking on Trump is now in a battle that could shape the future of AI policy and threaten his government contracts worth billions. Deep dive into the fight between Anthropic's Dario Amodei and AI Czar David Sacks: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-a...

The FTC is getting ready to study the impact of AI chatbots on kids and request documents from tech companies, an initial action on the topic that could lead to further action. W/ @emilyglazer.bsky.social: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ftc-...

The Truth Social post, the White House meeting and the deal—How Trump took 10% of Intel and CEO Lip-Bu Tan saved his job. Our deep dive on the 2-week fracas: www.wsj.com/tech/inside-...

Today's show ... the Trump administration makes a big (unconstitutional?) about-face on China and AI with its NVIDIA deal. With @amrithramkumar.bsky.social slate.com/podcasts/wha...

The relationship between Democrats and Silicon Valley is at its lowest point in a long time. Here's what some are doing to fix it in the Trump era: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

How did Jensen Huang change Trump's mind on chip sales to China? By getting him to see the world of AI his way and playing diplomat: www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Trump's call for the Intel CEO to resign adds to his pattern of weighing in on individual company decisions in unprecedented ways, fueling fear that he will target other executives he doesn't like: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The Trump administration is considering a plan to charge patent holders tens of billions of dollars with a new fee. It'd be a radical overhaul of the patent system and their latest attempt to raise revenue: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Overseas taxes and regulations on U.S. tech companies are a sticking point in trade talks with several countries, highlighting Trump's focus on digital trade issues and a potential win for the tech industry: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The White House's latest effort to go after DEI is an attack on "woke AI"—Trump is expected to ban biased AI companies from working with the government in an executive order: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/whit...

The US is changing a landmark deal to send Nvidia chips to the UAE due to national-security concerns. Now no chips will go directly to UAE firm G42, a change showing the challenges to Trump's AI agenda. Scoop w/ @eliotwb.bsky.social: www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Jensen Huang told Trump his company needed freer access to global customers to stay ahead of Chinese competitors like Huawei. 4 days later, Nvidia had approvals it had been seeking for months: www.wsj.com/tech/nvidia-...

Many of the big tech execs who cozied up to Trump don't have much to show for it, while others have used splashy investments to appeal to him. Our industry scorecard 6 months into the administration: www.wsj.com/tech/trump-t...

When the ban on state AI laws fell apart, it showed the division between the pro-tech and MAGA wings of Trump's party. That split will make it hard to enact AI policy: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Is training AI models on copyrighted material legal? A battle between tech companies and creative groups over the answer is simmering in DC: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/holl...

A U.S. official told top chipmakers in allied countries he wants to end a process that lets them operate with American tech in China, a move that could complicate trade talks . www.wsj.com/world/china/...

The Senate passed a key crypto bill 68-30 yesterday, a move that's expected to help legitimize the industry after it poured money into last year's election: www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

The Trump team recently considered much more aggressive China export controls on chipmaking equipment, adding to its arsenal if trade tensions flared again: www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Tech industry groups are lobbying to save clean-energy tax credits, a signal that access to power is a top priority for the biggest AI companies. W/ @jenhiller.bsky.social: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Can the U.S. lead the world in AI while cracking down on international students? Smart story from @pkwsj.bsky.social on the proven pipeline of inventors: www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Nvidia can hardly make a move without facing criticism that it's too close to China. The latest example is pushback from lawmakers over a planned facility in Shanghai that the company calls regular office space: www.wsj.com/politics/sen...

Kids online safety bills are becoming such a big threat to Apple that Tim Cook called Greg Abbott last week to lobby on Texas App Store age verification legislation: www.wsj.com/tech/tim-coo...

Lawmakers are asking for an investigation of Chinese EV charging upstart Autel Energy, the latest bid to crack down on China's access to the American market: www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

"This is a bonanza"—A record-setting agreement to send Nvidia AI chips to the UAE has tech execs celebrating while some officials worry the hardware will end up in China: www.wsj.com/tech/how-gul...

My colleagues have reported that crypto exchange Binance is doing business with Trump's family while its founder seeks a presidential pardon. Now 3 senators want answers from the administration on those talks: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump is reshaping Biden era AI chip export rules, but the new administration's changes might not be as industry friendly as investors hope: www.wsj.com/tech/ai-chip...

Trump invited the top holders of his crypto meme coin to a private dinner outside DC, fueling fresh conflict of interest concerns. One official called it “an outside business engagement”: www.wsj.com/finance/curr...