The Download: Chinese AI divides the White House, and a record copyright payout
The DownloadThe Download: Chinese AI divides the White House, and a record copyright payoutPlus: Anthropic's record $1.5 billion copyright settlement has been approved. China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself Last weekend, several current and former advisers to President Donald Trump on AI publicly lobbed insults at the country’s leading AI companies. David Sacks branded Anthropic’s models “lobotomized” and “woke.” Emil Michael, a top Pentagon official, called OpenAI’s new head of strategic futures a “supreme village idiot.” It began because no one can agree on what to do about Kimi, a free, open-source model that Chinese AI company Moonshot launched last week.
- ▪The DownloadThe Download: Chinese AI divides the White House, and a record copyright payoutPlus: Anthropic's record $1.5 billion copyright settlement has been approved.
- ▪China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself Last weekend, several current and former advisers to President Donald Trump on AI publicly lobbed insults at the country’s leading AI companies.
- ▪David Sacks branded Anthropic’s models “lobotomized” and “woke.” Emil Michael, a top Pentagon official, called OpenAI’s new head of strategic futures a “supreme village idiot.” It began because no one can agree on what to do about Kimi, a f
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The DownloadThe Download: Chinese AI divides the White House, and a record copyright payoutPlus: Anthropic's record $1.5 billion copyright settlement has been approved. By Thomas Macaulayarchive pageJuly 21, 2026 This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself Last weekend, several current and former advisers to President Donald Trump on AI publicly lobbed insults at the country’s leading AI companies.
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