Shopify launches five AI-powered shopping apps built on its new Catalog API and Universal Commerce Protocol, giving developers access to billions of standardized products to embed commerce into any digital experience — with monetization opportunities coming soon.
The Trump administration forces Anthropic's Claude offline after a trust-shattering dispute over the AI company allegedly sharing technology with a suspected China-linked firm, with sanctions and export controls having been under consideration for weeks prior.
Tech CEOs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind join world leaders at the G7 summit in France, marking a historic power shift as governments now depend on private AI executives to shape credible global policy on frontier AI risks, child safety, and cybersecurity.
Top AI CEOs, including Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, are urging G7 leaders to form a U.S.-led global AI coalition to set international standards, as national security fears over advanced AI cyber capabilities intensify and export controls hit Anthropic's latest models.
The Trump administration is demanding Anthropic make its AI models completely jailbreak-proof, a condition security experts say is technically impossible, escalating tensions between the White House and the AI company.
AI chatbot usage among U.S. adults surges to nearly 50%, with ChatGPT leading at 44% adoption, yet 63% of Americans believe AI is advancing too fast and a majority fear it will compromise personal security and negatively impact society over the next 20 years.
The US government threatens Anthropic with criminal and civil penalties for exporting its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models without authorization, forcing the company to disable both models worldwide as it scrambles to negotiate a resolution with the Trump administration.
AWS launches Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a fully managed real-time web search tool that grounds AI agent responses in live, cited web data within a secured AWS environment, available now in US East at $7 per 1,000 queries.
Microsoft is expanding its Phi Silica AI model to Nvidia RTX 30-series and newer GPUs with at least 6GB of VRAM in an early developer preview, bringing local AI capabilities to more Windows users beyond Copilot+ PCs, though GPU-based execution lacks some NPU-exclusive features like prompt compression and speculative decoding.
Sina Weibo's tiny 3-billion-parameter AI model, VibeThinker-3B, is shaking up the industry by claiming to rival Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic on key reasoning benchmarks, but skeptics warn the results may reflect 'benchmaxxing' rather than real-world capability.