Z.ai launches ZCode, a self-hostable AI coding tool powered by a 744-billion-parameter open-source model, offering subscription plans starting at $16.20/month and API pricing up to 82% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.8, positioning itself as a sovereign, kill-switch-free alternative to Cursor and GitHub Copilot amid growing enterprise concerns over U.S. export …
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.
VulnClaw launches as a powerful open-source AI penetration testing tool that automates the full attack pipeline from reconnaissance to report generation, featuring anti-hallucination gates that reject unverified results, support for 13 LLM providers, and a goal-driven engine with adaptive bypass strategies across 21 built-in penetration skills.
Claude AI models, including Opus 4.8 and Haiku 4.5, are now live on Microsoft Azure Foundry, giving enterprise teams advanced reasoning, coding, and agentic workflow capabilities with seamless Azure security, billing, and governance integration.
A powerful open-source MCP server called codebase-memory-mcp launches as a single static binary that indexes entire codebases into a persistent knowledge graph in milliseconds, supports 158 programming languages, runs 100% locally with zero telemetry, and integrates automatically with 11 major coding agents including Claude Code and VS Code.
A new study of 1,020 U.S. workers reveals 76% are using personally sourced AI tools at work as employers fail to provide vetted solutions or training, creating a dangerous 'bring your own AI' trend that experts warn poses serious security, privacy, and compliance risks.
OpenAI launches a limited preview of GPT-5.6 with three model tiers — Sol, Terra, and Luna — outperforming Anthropic's latest models across key benchmarks while debuting its strongest safety and cybersecurity features yet, as general availability approaches in the coming weeks.
The Trump administration moves to lift restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model after a 15-day government-ordered shutdown, with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick signaling progress on security concerns and limited access to cybersecurity model Mythos 5 being restored, as Anthropic and OpenAI push for a formal, transparent AI review process.
OpenAI launches the GPT-5.6 model series in limited preview, offering three tiers—Sol, Terra, and Luna—with competitive pricing, record-breaking inference speeds up to 750 tokens per second via Cerebras, and the company's most advanced safety stack yet, featuring over 700,000 GPU hours of automated red-teaming.