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TNB Tech Minute: Anthropic Spends $20 Million In AI Regulation Push Ahead of Midterms

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: Elon Musk announces a reorganization and staff departures at xAI. And Lenovo posts record revenue driven by device sales and AI. Julie Chang hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think the potential of Agenic is to rethink how work gets done overall. It challenges all sorts

0:06.5

of traditional orthodoxies around how organizations execute the work at hand. That's Jason Gersatus,

0:12.6

CEO of Deloitte U.S., talking about the transformational potential of Agenic AI. Join him later to

0:19.0

learn why agents are a game changer for businesses across industries.

0:24.3

Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Thursday, February 12th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

0:31.2

Anthropic is spending $20 million ahead of the midterm elections to push for greater AI

0:36.3

regulation and restrictions on exporting

0:38.5

AI chips. The AI startup announced today that it donated to Public First, a group pushing for

0:44.7

AI guardrails and transparency. Public First was set up to oppose a Superpack Network launched by

0:50.5

Open AI executives and venture firm Andries and Horwitz to fight what they say is

0:55.1

burdensome regulation. How to regulate AI is expected to play a key role in November's elections.

1:01.5

News Corp, owner of the Wall Street Journal, has a content licensing partnership with OpenAI.

1:06.8

Elon Musk announced a reorganization and staff departures at his AI startup XAI following its merger with SpaceX, which acquired XAI for $250 billion earlier this month.

1:18.6

Two of XAI's co-founders confirmed their departures on X. At a company all hands meeting yesterday, Musk unveiled a new organizational structure for XAI that divides the company into

1:28.6

four main teams. One focused on the AI chatbot GROC, another devoted to a coding-specific

1:34.5

AI model, a third working on its image generation model, and a fourth pursuing a project

1:39.7

dubbed Macrohard aimed at simulating software products with AI. And Lenovo Group, the world's largest

1:46.7

personal computer maker, recorded an 18% revenue increase to a record $22.2 billion in its third

1:53.8

quarter, driven by device sales and AI servers. The better than expected results come against

1:59.4

a backdrop of surging memory chip prices

2:01.7

disrupting the consumer electronics market. Some consumers have also pulled forward demand over

2:06.7

concerns that rising memory prices would make electronics more expensive this year, likely giving

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