The White House is reversing course on Anthropic, developing guidance to allow federal agencies to adopt its powerful AI model Mythos despite a prior security risk designation, even as a core dispute with the Pentagon over military and surveillance use remains unresolved.
Elon Musk admits under oath that his AI company xAI used OpenAI's models to train its Grok chatbot, even as he actively sues OpenAI in a California federal court over its shift from nonprofit to for-profit status.
Google is replacing Assistant with its Gemini AI in cars featuring Google built-in, bringing smarter, natural voice conversations, real-time EV battery insights, charging station recommendations, and owner's manual integration — rolling out now to eligible U.S. vehicles in English.
Anthropic launches Claude Security in public beta, enabling enterprise customers to scan code for vulnerabilities and generate AI-powered fixes using Claude Opus 4.7 directly from the Claude.ai sidebar, with major partners like CrowdStrike, Microsoft Security, and Palo Alto Networks already embedding the technology into their platforms.
The White House is drafting a sweeping AI policy memo requiring national security agencies to use multiple AI vendors, while also mandating that AI companies contracting with the Pentagon commit to not interfering with the military's chain of command.
Google Cloud's new report on generative AI trends reveals that startups heading into 2026 must embrace post-keyboard interfaces, end-to-end AI agent workflows, and interactive 3D media, while doubling down on human creativity and authentic storytelling as their most powerful competitive edge.
Self-hosting large language models is a hardware-intensive, patience-demanding endeavor requiring at least 16GB of VRAM for even modest models, with operational friction from RAG pipelines, prompt template mismatches, and latency issues making it far from a seamless API replacement.
MIT, WPI, and Google researchers unveil WRING, a groundbreaking debiasing technique that eliminates bias in AI vision-language models by rotating bias-responsible coordinates in high-dimensional space, avoiding the 'Whac-A-Mole dilemma' of creating new biases while fixing old ones.
OpenAI's GPT-4.5 has been officially banned from spontaneously discussing goblins, gremlins, raccoons, and trolls after the model repeatedly brought up such creatures unprompted, with the quirky prohibition going viral and even CEO Sam Altman leaning into the joke as fans build 'goblin mode' workarounds.
Google is now selling its custom AI chips, Tensor Processing Units, directly to customers for use in their own data centers, marking a major strategic shift that intensifies competition with Nvidia while Amazon simultaneously challenges the chip giant with its own lineup generating over $20 billion in annual revenue.