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Receipts-first dossiers on the people, companies and ideas Wireframe News tracks: dated sources, typed relations and who gets cited alongside whom.

• Anthropic 89 receipts · 2026-10-01
  Founded 2021 by Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, and former OpenAI researchers after disagreements about OpenAI's commercial trajectory. Public Benefit Corporation. $60B+ valuation (2025). Google has invested $2B+. Amazon is a major investor.
• Compute Barons 78 receipts · 2026-10-03
  Wireframe's name for the handful of companies that control the whole stack of frontier AI, from data centers and chips to the models and the products people use them through.
• Elon Musk 60 receipts · 2026-10-02
  CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, xAI; owner of X (formerly Twitter).
• ICE — Immigration and Customs Enforcement 76 receipts · 2026-09-22
  US Department of Homeland Security component agency for immigration enforcement and customs.
• Mass Surveillance 55 receipts · 2026-09-06
  Amodei's 2026 Adolescence of Technology essay named mass surveillance of American citizens as one of two bright red lines declared "entirely illegitimate regardless of context" alongside fully autonomous weapons. Four weeks later, Pentagon demanded Anthropic remove both.
• OpenAI 67 receipts · 2026-10-01
  Founded 2015 as nonprofit (by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and others to prevent corporate-concentrated AI), now a $500B capped-profit subsidiary of the nonprofit, with Microsoft holding ~27% after October 2025 restructuring.
• Palantir 66 receipts · 2026-09-30
  Data-analytics and AI platform company founded by Peter Thiel in 2003.
• Peter Thiel 33 receipts · 2026-09-26
  Co-founder of PayPal and Palantir; venture capitalist (Founders Fund); major political funder on the US right; backer of Praxis Nation "sovereign network" project.
• Rolling Coup 73 receipts · 2026-09-30
  A slow-motion, multi-front attempt to entrench power by degrading the machinery of free elections — distinguished from a single coup event (Jan 6) by being incremental, legalistic, and distributed across agencies. Coined by former Reps. Gephardt and Skaggs and former Sen. Wirth; popularized in Jonathan Alter's June 2026 scenario.
• The Pentagon (Department of War) 5 receipts · 2026-10-03
  The US military establishment, named in our sources as the Pentagon, the Department of Defense and, under the current administration, the Department of War.