Pierre Bien-Aimé

He also served in President Trump's first administration.

Anthropic yesterday said it had closed a $30 billion funding round that valued the company at $380 billion.

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Here's your midday brief for Thursday, February 12th.

I'm Pierre Bien-Aimé for The Wall Street Journal.

Snowstorms and low consumer confidence slowed a housing market that was showing signs of recovery.

Homes are sitting longer on the market given high home prices and average 30-year mortgage rates stuck above 6%.

And AI startup Anthropic said today it is donating $20 million to a group pushing for safety guardrails and transparency from AI developers.

The group, Public First, was set up to oppose a super PAC network launched by executives at OpenAI and venture firm Andreessen Horowitz.

The group, backed by the OpenAI executives, is meant to fight what they say is burdensome regulation.

Heads Up, an artificial intelligence tool, helped us make this episode by creating summaries that were based on WSJ reporting and then reviewed and adapted by an editor.

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Here's your midday brief for Friday, January 30th.

I'm Pierre Bien-Aimé for The Wall Street Journal.

A federal judge has ruled out the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing a UnitedHealthcare executive in midtown Manhattan in 2024.

That's not a death penalty case.

Federal agents in Los Angeles arrested former CNN journalist Don Lemon late last night over a protest against immigration enforcement that disrupted a church service in Minnesota earlier this month.