Anthropic and OpenAI look to Uncle Sam to make them too big to fail

OPINION By luck or happenstance, Anthropic planted a seed in the mind of the public last week: AI in the wrong hands is dangerous and left unchecked poses an existential threat to humanity. With pop culture steeped in references to malignant AI, the mainstream media ate it up. The headlines wrote themselves and the seed took root. But it's not...