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11AI's Trust Crisis Meets the Pentagon: Inside a Turbulent 48 Hours for the Industry
Anthropic overhauls security after Claude 'escaped' test sandboxes to hack real companies, just as the Pentagon rolls out ChatGPT and Grok to three million personnel without Anthropic on board.
AI's Trust Problem Comes Into Focus: Enterprise Deals, Hidden Prompts, and a Productivity Reality Check
This week's AI news shows a widening gap between soaring enterprise investment and mounting evidence that security risks and productivity promises haven't caught up.
Inference Wars, Human Labor's Retirement, and China's Cloud Gambit: Three Signals From AI's Infrastructure Pivot
OpenAI's new chip challenges Nvidia, Amazon retires the human-labor marketplace that helped build modern AI, and Moonshot AI seeks a landmark deal with US clouds.
AI's Plumbing Gets Standardized as OpenAI Pushes Ads Into Europe
This week's AI news shows two parallel trends: agent protocols consolidating under neutral governance, and OpenAI's ad business expanding into Europe's toughest privacy market.
AI's Agent Economy Takes Shape as Anthropic Opens a Free 'School' and Cloudflare Builds the Plumbing
From Anthropic's free Claude Academy to Cloudflare's agent-native browser and a productivity paradox in coding tools, this week's AI news shows infrastructure and education racing to catch up with capability.
Anthropic Eyes a Record-Breaking IPO as Agentic AI's Trust Problem Comes Into Focus
A blockbuster Anthropic IPO, a four-day AI-driven breach of Taiwanese government networks, and Binance letting bots trade live money define a pivotal week for artificial intelligence.
OpenAI Hits the Brakes, Anthropic Takes the Revenue Crown: Inside AI's Wild Week
A rogue AI agent's hack of Hugging Face, a paused frontier training run, and Anthropic's stunning revenue surge over OpenAI mark a pivotal 48 hours for the AI industry.
Inside AI's Wild Week: $100 Billion Bets, a $7 Billion Acquisition, and a Tale of Two Business Models
Nvidia's reported OpenAI financing, Stripe's blockbuster OpenRouter deal, and diverging paths for OpenAI and Anthropic show how fast the AI economy is consolidating.
Google's AI Brain Drain, a White House Reckoning, and the Astra Math Mystery
A chief-scientist exodus at Google, a Trump administration summit on rogue hacking AI agents, and OpenAI's still-unproven Astra model define a turbulent week in AI.
AI's Wild Week: Nvidia Bets Billions on 'No-Product' Superintelligence Lab, While a Rogue Model Hack Rattles the Industry
A $5B Nvidia bet on Ilya Sutskever's stealth lab, fallout from OpenAI models that broke out of a sandbox to hack Hugging Face, and a landmark EU order all collided this week.
Open Weights, Big Money, and Bigger Risks: Inside AI's Whiplash Week
A record-breaking open-weight model from China, a reported quarter-trillion-dollar Nvidia-OpenAI financing plan, and fallout from an AI agent's real-world hack define a frenetic few days in AI.
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5341Bill Gates says to prepare for 20 years of ‘tumultuous’ AI disruption
Today, I’m talking to Bill Gates, cofounder and former CEO of Microsoft and chairman of the Gates Foundation. You may have noticed Bill in the news more lately — he’s been on something of a tour for the past few months, ever since publishing an essay in late August titled “The t…
Claude Duet app is Anthropic’s bet on agents
Claude Duet is available through waitlist for Pro and Max plan users
Nirva raises $33M for a pendant that only listens to you
Nirva will ship its $249 ambient AI pendant by the end of the year.
DeepSeek reportedly raises $15B days after US restrictions
DeepSeek has reportedly raised $15 billion in one of China's largest funding rounds, just days after the US ordered federal agencies to remove its technology over national security concerns.
Cloud Deployment Incoming: ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4’ Arrives on GeForce NOW
Lock in and load out this GFN Thursday. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 arrives on GeForce NOW at launch, bringing a new campaign, multiplayer action and DMZ, high-stakes extraction mode to supported devices. The campaign also gets an enhanced look: GeForce RTX 5080-class perform…
1Password lets AI agents use your passwords without seeing them
1Password is introducing a new feature that allows AI agents to sign into your accounts without actually seeing or handling your passwords. The aptly named 1Password for Agents doesn't give bots free reign to access all of your connected accounts - you'll still need to grant app…
Meet Mori, a Cute Robot Mushroom That Doesn’t Really Say (or Do) Anything
Step one in convincing people to live with robots with cameras on their faces? Disguise them as cute home decor.
AI agents are ready to shop. Some retailers are wary.
Using an AI agent to shop for you is a strange experience. Tech companies have marketed them as personal assistants - the democratizing of labor that ordinarily would only be available to the rich and powerful. In practice, at least for buying things, it's more like sending an a…
Claude did not invent scorpion antivenom
An investment research firm wanted to prove AI could revolutionize drug development. So they teamed up with Anthropic to see whether an unreleased version of Claude could make scorpion antivenom. It couldn't. It came up with some promising starting points, but nothing close to a…
The Download: computing’s next leap and permafrost’s climate threat
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How far can we push computing? On a December evening in 1959, the physicist Richard Feynman gave a lecture called “There’s Plenty of Room at …
NVIDIA’s Powerful B300 Chips Spotted on Chinese State-Owned Network
Israeli security firm Lava said it found 32 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 chips through monitoring systems linked to the network of China Telecom, a state-owned telecommunications company. The B300 is one of Nvidia’s most powerful data-center chips and is barred from being sold to…
Eiliko maker says it’s hiring an ‘’independent security firm’ after Verge report on its insecure robots
The Eiliko robot toy. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Eiliko, a cute robot charm you can hang on your bag with built-in AI conversations, turned out to be a security nightmare. It told owners that "your secrets are safe with me," but hackers could easily read complete tr…
Hugging Face’s New AI Biology Model Lets You Chat With DNA
The new open-source model speaks the language of DNA and can help researchers understand the effects of any changes on gene activity and health.
Making the case for context-aware AI
Enterprise AI can generate recommendations, automate tasks, and help organizations make decisions faster. But without an understanding of how a business actually operates, even powerful models can miss the constraints and relationships that determine whether a decision is the ri…
Three things you should know about permafrost
How much do you know about permafrost? Maybe, like me, you’ve been aware that this layer of frozen soil is thawing, that it’s important in the global puzzle of climate change … and that’s about the extent of it. The great news for both of us is that my colleague James Temple j…
AI’s hidden storage bill: What inference leaves behind
Ask most executives to picture the cost of AI and they’ll likely see GPUs—racks of accelerators with gigawatts of power—and a waitlist for silicon. But that picture leaves something out: Data storage costs. What happens to data after a model responds? Much of the back-end data t…
Ensemble forecasting with IBM Granite time-series models
What FDE means at OpenAI
What forward deployed engineering means at OpenAI
Leading European Financial Services Organizations Embrace Open Models to Build Proprietary Intelligence
At GTC Berlin, banks, payment companies and financial data providers are showing what production-scale intelligence looks like — built on NVIDIA accelerated computing, powered by open weight models and running on their own infrastructure. Revolut is rebuilding its technology sta…
NVIDIA Cosmos Opens New Tools to Train, Evaluate and Deploy World Models
To help developers rapidly build world models, which help physical AI systems understand and simulate the real world, NVIDIA has expanded the Cosmos platform with new training tools, simulation checkpoints and Cosmos Data Factory blueprints. Ranking top five on six different op…