A federal appeals court upholds the Pentagon's blacklisting of AI company Anthropic, keeping it barred from defense contracts after negotiations collapsed over the DOD's demand for unrestricted model access and Anthropic's refusal to allow its Claude AI in autonomous weapons or domestic mass surveillance systems.
OpenAI launches a Child Safety Blueprint in partnership with child protection organizations, as AI-generated child sexual abuse cases surge over 8,000 in early 2025, outlining urgent steps to strengthen detection, legislation, and built-in AI safeguards against exploitation.
Anthropic deploys Claude Mythos Preview, a powerful AI model deemed too dangerous for public release, in a $100M cross-industry initiative called Project Glasswing, partnering with AWS, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and CrowdStrike to identify and fix critical software vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them.
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.
Cisco launches Nexus One, a unified networking platform integrating silicon, software, and security to eliminate data center fragmentation and power AI-scale infrastructure with quantum-safe encryption, real-time GPU visibility, and multi-OS support.
MCP mandates OAuth 2.1 and PKCE in its June 2025 security overhaul, enforcing stricter authentication for remote server deployments while separating resource and authorization servers, though open challenges around scope discovery, dynamic client registration, and token error handling over SSE connections still remain.
Anthropic's revenue explodes past $19 billion annually, fueled by surging demand for its Claude Code AI tool, but the company now faces a potentially devastating blow as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designates it a supply-chain risk, threatening to cut off all US government sales.
Hermes Agent v0.7.0 launches with a sweeping security overhaul, introducing an anti-detection browser, pluggable memory providers, credential pool rotation, and critical fixes blocking secret exfiltration — all packed into 168 merged PRs from over 35 contributors.
Anthropic cuts third-party tool access for Claude Code subscribers starting April 4, 2026, forcing separate pay-as-you-go payments, while OpenClaw's creator accuses the company of copying open-source features into its own closed tool before locking out competitors — a charge Anthropic denies, calling it a sustainability decision.
Microsoft's Copilot terms of service label the AI tool as 'for entertainment only,' exposing a growing industry-wide contradiction where companies aggressively market AI as essential while quietly burying disclaimers about hallucinations and unreliability in fine print — a dangerous gap already linked to real-world failures, including AWS outages caused by …