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.
Alibaba Cloud surges to No. 2 globally in AI video generation with its newly launched HappyHorse 1.1 model, capitalizing on a rapidly contracting market as OpenAI shuts down Sora and ByteDance freezes its rival product, though geopolitical tensions and a Pentagon military designation threaten to limit Western enterprise adoption.
The Five Eyes intelligence alliance is sounding the alarm that AI-powered cyberattacks capable of toppling governments and businesses are just months away, urging immediate action from leaders as frontier AI models rapidly shrink the window between vulnerability discovery and exploitation.
A viral dystopian thought experiment called 'Europe 2031' is rattling EU policymakers, warning that Europe's failure to invest in AI infrastructure could trigger economic collapse and geopolitical vulnerability to the US and China, gaining urgency after the Trump administration blocked foreign nationals from accessing a key AI model.