It’s the first Tuesday in May, which means the internet is busy picking apart every single look from last night’s Met Gala—which, historically, would have had literally nothing to do with this tech-focused newsletter. The good old days…
While Charles Porch held court at the OpenAI table, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman were mid-trial against Elon Musk, who is threatening to make the pair “the most hated men in America.” (OpenAI’s language models, meanwhile, have developed a fixation on “gremlins.”) Both OpenAI and SpaceX have joined a multiplayer pact with the Department of Defense—as Anthropic draws a line against fully autonomous drone warfare. Quaint! Not to be outdone, Anthropic has also inked a major deal with Wall Street.
And while everyone is busy spiraling about which AI company is the greatest evil and how exactly it will blow up our planet, the Thiel-verse behind the Enhanced Games is figuring out how pharmaceutical companies can compete against one another the way car companies do through F1—but the people are the cars. If that’s not your speed, pickleball is also having a great week. (See, it’s not all bad news!)
I’m Vanity Fair staff writer Clara Molot, filling in for Julia Black, and you can read my story below.
Mentioned in this issue: Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Mark Zuckerberg, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Marc Toberoff, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, Jeff Bezos, Amazon, SpaceX, Peter Thiel, Christian Angermayer, Aron D’Souza, Donald Trump Jr., Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Enhanced Games, and more…
