Cache Me Out

Technology on the move.

The brother goes on vision quests. The sister is a former English major. Together, they defected from OpenAI, started Anthropic, and built (they say) AI’s most upstanding citizen, Claude.

What happens when quantum computers can finally crack encryption and break into the world’s best-kept secrets? It’s called Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.

Guillaume Verdon is building a new kind of chip to accelerate AI. His alter ego wants to accelerate humanity itself.