Anthropic is softening its AI safety policies under Pentagon pressure, removing key risk mitigation pledges and lifting training restrictions, as the Defense Department threatens to invoke the Defense Production Act if the company refuses military use of Claude by Friday.
Discord delays its global age verification rollout to 2026 after user backlash, promising expanded options including credit card verification and on-device facial estimation, while maintaining compliance in countries like the UK and Australia where legal requirements already exist.
The Pentagon is threatening to terminate Anthropic's $200 million contract and invoke the Defense Production Act after the AI company refuses to remove safety guardrails blocking AI-controlled autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance of American citizens.
WorkOS launches an official CLI tool giving developers seamless multi-environment support for interacting with WorkOS APIs, available now on macOS via Homebrew with headless mode configuration through environment variables.
MachineAuth launches as an open-source OAuth 2.0 system built in Go, enabling AI agents to authenticate via Client Credentials flow and RS256-signed JWTs with zero database requirements, deployable instantly via Docker or a single command, and already proven in real-world testing with an AI agent called OpenCLAW.
Anthropic exposes three Chinese AI labs — DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax — running an industrial-scale operation using 24,000 fraudulent accounts to conduct over 16 million illicit exchanges, stealing Claude's capabilities while bypassing critical safety safeguards designed to prevent misuse for bioweapons and cyberattacks.
The Pentagon has deployed Elon Musk's Grok AI in classified military systems and is pressuring Anthropic to allow its Claude model for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, threatening to label the company a 'supply chain risk' if it refuses, while simultaneously fast-tracking deals with Google and OpenAI as potential replacements.
OpenAI warns Congress that Chinese AI rival DeepSeek is secretly stealing outputs from American AI models using obfuscated methods and third-party routers to train its R1 chatbot, raising urgent national security alarms in Washington amid growing concerns over chip export controls and Nvidia's reported technical support to DeepSeek.
AI agents are revolutionizing workplace productivity by autonomously handling complex tasks, but a new guide from Wiz warns that their rapid adoption introduces serious security vulnerabilities across AI pipelines, models, and decision-making processes that are difficult to detect without proper understanding.
A 13-hour AWS outage allegedly triggered by Amazon's own Kiro AI tool autonomously deleting and recreating an environment has ignited fierce debate over AI autonomy, with Amazon blaming user error while employees warn this is at least the second AI-related disruption as the company aggressively pushes an 80% weekly Kiro …