Google grants the Pentagon unrestricted AI access for classified networks, including non-binding restrictions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, sparking backlash from 950 employees demanding stronger protections after Anthropic's refusal to offer similar terms triggered a DoD lawsuit.
GPT-5-powered agentic search systems are crushing baseline scores with an NDCG of 0.453 versus a 0.289 BM25 baseline on Amazon ESCI, but hit a hard wall when facing knowledge-gap tasks where LLMs cannot evaluate information they don't already know.
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 quietly raises real-world costs up to 27% through a new tokenizer that generates 32–45% more tokens than its predecessor, despite keeping prices unchanged at $5/M input and $25/M output — though short prompts under 2K tokens actually see a slight cost decrease.
Poolside launches two powerful agentic coding models — Laguna M.1 (225B) and open-weight Laguna XS.2 (33B) — both free via API for a limited time, delivering top-tier SWE-bench Pro scores and built for complex, long-horizon coding tasks using reinforcement learning trained on 30 trillion tokens.
Taylor Swift makes an unprecedented legal move by trademarking her voice and stage image to combat AI deepfakes, as legal experts call it an untested but emerging strategy addressing critical gaps that copyright law alone cannot fill.
AWS and OpenAI are expanding their partnership, bringing frontier AI models, the Codex coding agent, and a new Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents service to enterprise customers through Amazon Bedrock's secure, scalable cloud infrastructure.
Google launches 'Ask YouTube,' an AI-powered conversational search feature exclusively for US YouTube Premium subscribers that combines video recommendations, Shorts, and AI-generated text summaries into structured, topic-organized results pages.
Elon Musk takes the stand in federal court, accusing OpenAI co-founders of 'looting' a charity through its for-profit conversion, while OpenAI's attorneys strike back with Musk's own emails showing he once supported the very restructuring he now seeks to unwind in court.
Hundreds of Google employees are demanding CEO Sundar Pichai block the Pentagon from using the company's AI for classified military work, igniting a fierce public debate over the ethics of military AI contracts just months after rival Anthropic was dropped by the Defense Department for making a similar request.
Elon Musk takes the stand in a landmark $130 billion trial against OpenAI, demanding the company revert to nonprofit status and remove CEO Sam Altman, while OpenAI fires back claiming Musk's lawsuit is fueled by jealousy and competitive motives tied to his rival xAI venture — with the outcome potentially …