Anthropic briefs the Trump administration on its new Mythos AI model, deemed too dangerous for public release due to its powerful cybersecurity capabilities, as co-founder Jack Clark emphasizes government transparency on advanced AI is critical for national security.
A perfect storm of surging AI token demand, a 48% spike in GPU costs, and war-driven semiconductor supply chain disruptions are pushing the AI industry to a breaking point, with OpenAI's token demand exploding from 6 million to 15 billion per minute and Anthropic restricting access to its latest model.
Alibaba and China Telecom launch a massive AI data center in Guangdong powered by 10,000 homegrown Zhenwu chips, signaling China's aggressive push toward semiconductor self-sufficiency as U.S. export restrictions cut off access to advanced Nvidia hardware.
OpenAI is calling on California and Delaware attorneys general to investigate Elon Musk for alleged anti-competitive behavior, claiming he is coordinating with Meta's Mark Zuckerberg to sabotage the company ahead of an April 27 trial, while potentially benefiting his own xAI platform and Grok AI product.
Iranian missile strikes have taken down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai, with Amazon declaring multiple zones 'hard down' and engineers scrambling to migrate affected workloads, while broader disruptions to critical materials flowing through the Strait of Hormuz now threaten the global semiconductor supply chain.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits he 'miscalibrated' public distrust over AI-government partnerships, defending his company's Pentagon deal while arguing democratic institutions must oversee AI and calling for government dominance in national security AI decisions.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims he is 'saving' rival Anthropic after swooping in to secure a Pentagon deal that Anthropic lost, but Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei fires back in a leaked memo calling Altman's framing 'straight up lies,' as internal Slack messages reveal Altman simultaneously accusing Amodei of spending years …
Iran escalates tensions by designating Amazon, Microsoft, Palantir, and Oracle as military targets while striking Qatar's critical helium plant, threatening to cripple global semiconductor production and putting billions in Middle East AI infrastructure investments at serious risk.
Cursor faces backlash after launching Composer 2 as a 'frontier' coding model without disclosing it's built on Kimi 2.5, a Chinese open-source AI, with co-founder Aman Sanger now admitting the lack of transparency was a mistake amid growing U.S.-China AI tensions.
Super Micro Computer co-founder Wally Liaw resigns after a federal indictment charges him with smuggling Nvidia AI chip-laden servers into China through fake paperwork and decoy hardware, generating $2.5 billion in illicit sales since 2024, sending company shares crashing 33%.