Alibaba bans employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code starting July 10, labeling it high-risk, as Anthropic simultaneously tightens restrictions blocking Chinese companies from accessing its AI models and closes loopholes that enabled unauthorized use.
OpenAI proposes giving the U.S. government a $42.6 billion, 5% stake in the company as CEO Sam Altman pushes a broader plan for top AI firms — including Google, Meta, and Anthropic — to cede similar stakes through a sovereign wealth fund, amid growing Washington pressure over cybersecurity risks and …
Palantir CEO Alex Karp unleashes a fiery attack on Big Tech AI firms, calling the industry 'effing insane' and accusing them of overcharging businesses and exploiting customer data, while Palantir shares surge 9% following his CNBC interview and a new Nvidia partnership announcement.
OpenAI appoints former Uber India president Prabhjeet Singh as its first-ever India managing director, signaling a major push into its second-largest global market as competition with rivals like Anthropic heats up.
Anthropic accuses Chinese tech giant Alibaba of orchestrating a massive scheme using thousands of fake accounts to illegally access its Claude AI model, targeting advanced capabilities like software engineering and agentic reasoning, calling it the largest known attempt by a Chinese company to exploit a top US AI lab.
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of orchestrating the largest known AI distillation attack in history, using 28.8 million exchanges across 25,000 fraudulent accounts to illicitly steal its AI capabilities, and is now urging the U.S. Senate to take coordinated action against the threat.
The Trump White House is freezing out Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, reportedly calling him a 'weirdo' and refusing direct dealings with him, forcing cofounder Tom Brown to step in as tensions escalate over the regulatory future of the Claude Fable 5 AI model.
Two senior Google AI researchers are defecting to Anthropic, rattling investors as Alphabet faces a growing talent exodus with high-profile departures to rivals Anthropic and OpenAI, sending shares dipping amid fears Google is losing its competitive edge in the AI race.
The US bans foreign access to Anthropic's AI models Mythos and Fable, sparking international backlash as French President Macron warns of 'non-cooperation among democracies,' while critics question whether Anthropic's own heavy use of AI risk language — nearly eight times more than OpenAI — helped justify the sweeping export restrictions.
Alibaba's HappyHorse 1.1 rockets to No. 2 globally in AI video, Reflection AI locks a $6.3B SpaceX compute deal for open-weight models, and Anthropic gets caught in a regulatory trap after its own risk warnings trigger a U.S. export ban on its latest AI models.