The Pentagon threatens to terminate Anthropic's defense contracts after CEO Dario Amodei refuses to lift AI safeguards, as the military demands unrestricted access to Claude for classified systems while Anthropic holds firm against enabling mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.
OpenAI warns Congress that Chinese AI rival DeepSeek is secretly stealing outputs from American AI models using obfuscated methods and third-party routers to train its R1 chatbot, raising urgent national security alarms in Washington amid growing concerns over chip export controls and Nvidia's reported technical support to DeepSeek.
As veteran COBOL developers retire and billions of lines of legacy code power 95% of US ATM transactions, AI tools like Claude Code are now automating the most costly and complex phases of modernization, offering organizations a practical, incremental path forward before a critical skills gap becomes a full-blown crisis.
DeepSeek unveils a powerful new sparse attention system in DeepSeek-V3.2 that uses a trained 'lightning indexer' to intelligently select the most relevant tokens, directly tackling the memory bottleneck slowing down long-context AI inference without sacrificing accuracy.
The Motion Picture Association fires its first-ever cease-and-desist at ByteDance, accusing the TikTok parent of deliberately training its AI video generator Seedance 2.0 on copyrighted films and shows without permission, with Disney, Warner Bros., Netflix, Paramount, and Sony all joining the legal assault as ByteDance insists it respects intellectual property …
ElevenLabs launches Experiments in ElevenAgents, a powerful A/B testing feature that lets teams optimize AI agent performance by testing prompt, voice, and workflow variants on live traffic while tracking key metrics like CSAT, conversion rates, and cost per resolution.
OpenAI launches a formal ad program in ChatGPT, hitting free U.S. users with sponsored placements from brands like Expedia, Target, and Ford starting from their very first message, while paid subscribers remain ad-free and advertisers face a $200,000 minimum commitment at a $60 CPM rate.
Apple accelerates its AI smart glasses development, acquiring AI startup Q.ai for $2 billion to enable silent voice input and facial movement recognition, as it races to challenge Meta Ray-Bans with a premium, self-contained device featuring dual cameras — all potentially launching within the next year.
AI agents are revolutionizing workplace productivity by autonomously handling complex tasks, but a new guide from Wiz warns that their rapid adoption introduces serious security vulnerabilities across AI pipelines, models, and decision-making processes that are difficult to detect without proper understanding.
A new study testing 19 web frameworks reveals a striking 2.9x token efficiency gap between minimal frameworks like Flask and Express versus full-featured ones like Phoenix, with AI agents successfully building functional blog apps in 18 of 19 frameworks — findings that carry major cost implications as agents scale to …