Ep. 4 — Washington eyes a piece of OpenAI, Anthropic goes drug hunting, and Microsoft fields a $2.5B deployment army

Washington eyes a piece of OpenAI, Anthropic goes drug hunting, and Microsoft fields a $2.5B deployment army 00:48 — OpenAI offers the US government a 5% stake — and Washington is listening 02:17 — Anthropic says it will develop its own drugs, targeting neglected diseases 03:47 — Microsoft launches Frontier Company, a $2.5B AI deployment org with 6,000 experts 05:17 — Google DeepMind and A24 announce a first-of-its-kind research partnership — and Google invested in A24 05:42 — Z.ai, the Chinese lab behind GLM 5.2, ships ZCode — an AI coding harness that undercuts US pricing 06:06 — Anthropic is discussing a custom AI chip with Samsung 06:30 — Alexandr Wang tells Meta staff its next model 'Watermelon' has caught up with GPT-5.5 06:54 — Weave Robotics opens pre-orders for Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot that does laundry and tidies rooms Daily Prompt with Archer & Iris.