Anthropic's Claude.ai and Claude Code are down for thousands of users Monday morning due to login issues, as a fix is underway — the outage striking at a particularly turbulent moment with Claude topping App Store charts above ChatGPT amid Pentagon contract controversy and Trump ordering federal agencies to halt …
Anthropic faces an existential crisis as a collapsed Pentagon deal over autonomous weapons disputes triggers a federal ban on its technology, puts $60 billion in venture capital at risk, and sees rival OpenAI swoop in to sign the rejected agreement.
AI coding assistant Cursor surpasses $2 billion in annualized revenue as of February 2026, doubling its run rate in just three months, with corporate clients driving 60% of revenue at a $29.3 billion valuation.
Anthropic's Claude AI is suffering a massive global outage affecting thousands of users across all platforms since 11:30 UTC, with timeouts, failed requests, and inconsistent responses hitting multiple models — and despite repeated fixes, the crisis remains unresolved.
Anthropic launches 'Claude for Open Source,' offering qualifying open-source maintainers six months of free Claude Max 20x access worth $200/month, targeting projects with 5,000+ GitHub stars or 1 million monthly npm downloads — though critics note the move is strategically designed to embed Claude into open-source workflows while Anthropic's own …
Anthropic and OpenAI are battling for control of the agentic AI stack, forcing SaaS giants like Salesforce, Microsoft, and ServiceNow to abandon traditional per-seat licensing in favor of consumption-based pricing models as AI agents reshape how businesses buy and use software.
Investors are pulling back from shallow AI SaaS startups lacking depth, as capital rapidly shifts toward data-rich, mission-critical platforms with proprietary assets and flexible pricing, leaving generic workflow tools and API wrappers vulnerable to extinction by AI-native competitors.
OpenAI fires an employee caught using insider knowledge to make trades on prediction market platforms like Polymarket, exposing a growing trend of Big Tech workers exploiting confidential information for personal gain as these markets surge in popularity and financial significance.
Claude AI skyrockets to No. 2 on the U.S. App Store after the Pentagon labels Anthropic a national security risk following the company's refusal to allow its models to be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons, turning a government clash into a massive consumer surge.
OpenAI is closing in on 1 billion weekly active users as ChatGPT hits 900 million, while a landmark $110 billion funding round from Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank values the company at a staggering $730 billion.