Anthropic is an AI safety company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers, including Dario and Daniela Amodei. It develops the Claude family of AI assistants and focuses on AI interpretability and safety research.
Z.ai launched ZCode, a free desktop coding environment built around its GLM-5.2 model, on July 1, entering the competitive AI coding-agent market against Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot. The t…
Alibaba Group Holding has banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code, citing security risks after discovering the US AI firm used hidden code to track Chinese users. The Chinese tech giant ad…
Anthropic announced Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists, and revealed plans to develop its own drugs targeting neglected diseases, marking one of the most direct attempts by a major AI comp…
Anthropic resolved a US government dispute over its Fable AI model after expanding safety classifiers to block jailbreak requests like 'fix this code' in over 99% of cases. The government lifted expor…
A new position paper on using formal methods for AI security focuses on model weight confidentiality and integrity through infrastructure hardening, with a minimal and uncontroversial approach. The UK…
Alibaba banned Anthropic's Claude Code from internal environments starting July 10, 2026, citing the risk of embedded backdoors due to the tool's deep system access and communication with U.S.-hosted …
SpaceX's IPO on June 12 became the highest-valued in history, raising over $75 billion and valuing the company at $2 trillion. The public offering, which includes Elon Musk's AI venture xAI, saw share…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted at an internal town hall that the company's AI agent development has not accelerated as expected, and that a corporate restructuring around AI agents has not gone smo…
Cybersecurity firm LayerX discovered a new hack called "BioShocking" that can trick AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity AI's Comet, and Anthropic's Claude into breaking their guardrails by cons…
Tesla capped employee AI spending at $200 per week starting July 6, according to an internal memo. The move follows an internal push to ramp up AI use, with Tesla launching a platform called Bottle Ro…
A new study reveals that increased reasoning in AI models can sometimes reduce accuracy, a phenomenon termed 'fragile correctness.' Researchers found that 14.9% of answers switched from correct to inc…
Ethan Mollick, a Wharton professor and AI researcher, gave Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 access to Unity and an MCP server with a single prompt to create a first-person shooter, resulting in a playable W…
Microsoft announced a $2.5 billion investment in a new business unit, Microsoft Frontier, to help enterprise customers adopt AI tools and demonstrate return on investment. The unit will employ 6,000 f…
The AI Engineer World's Fair concluded with a debate on the viability of autonomous software factories, pitting advocates like Geoffrey Huntley and Ian Livingstone against skeptics Dex Horthy and Greg…
Anthropic is in early-stage talks with Samsung Electronics to manufacture a custom AI accelerator chip, The Information reported on July 2, 2026. The move follows OpenAI's custom chip and reflects AI …
Court documents reveal tense email exchanges between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Pentagon official Emil Michael, leading to the AI lab's split with the Department of Defense over concerns about usi…
Vincent van der Meulen reported that Claude Fable 5 generated over 60 ready-to-merge pull requests overnight when used as an orchestrator for autonomous coding agents, a claim that highlights a shift …
Apple introduced the Safari MCP server in Safari Technology Preview 247, a Model Context Protocol tool that lets AI agents debug web code by connecting to a live browser window. The server provides ag…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's refusal to allow its AI models for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons led to a federal blacklist, two court fights, and the first export-control takedown of a commer…
OpenAI has proposed giving the U.S. government a 5% stake worth about $42.6 billion, with CEO Sam Altman pitching the idea to President Trump and top officials. The plan aims to democratize AI's econo…