AI Weekly Issue #495: Musk, Zuckerberg killed Trump's AI safety order in three phone calls

Over the weekend: Musk, Zuckerberg, and Sacks killed Trump's draft AI safety executive order in three Wednesday-night phone calls. Anthropic closed a $30B+ round the same Saturday — while Microsoft quietly cancelled its internal Claude Code pilot after token billing ate the entire annual AI...

Over the weekend: Musk, Zuckerberg, and Sacks killed Trump's draft AI safety executive order in three Wednesday-night phone calls. Anthropic closed a $30B+ round the same Saturday — while Microsoft quietly cancelled its internal Claude Code pilot after token billing ate the entire annual AI budget, redirecting developers to Copilot. CISA logged 15,000 attacks on a same-week Drupal SQL flaw. The first cross-registry supply chain attack — TrapDoor — hit npm, PyPI, and Crates.io at once, using .cursorrules and CLAUDE.md config files as the carrier. And the White House personally overrode the Pentagon to keep Claude inside the NSA.

Source: AI Weekly — Published May 25, 2026 at 00:00 UTC — Category: Business