The frontier AI duopoly takes shape
Anthropic confidentially filed for an IPO on 1 June, with Polymarket putting the chance of a 2026 listing at 65%, and investor Gavin Baker estimating on the All-In podcast that Anthropic would trade a…
Anthropic confidentially filed for an IPO on 1 June, with Polymarket putting the chance of a 2026 listing at 65%, and investor Gavin Baker estimating on the All-In podcast that Anthropic would trade a…
President Donald Trump urged the U.S. Senate to pass the Clarity Act for crypto regulation, citing the need to compete with China and advancements in artificial intelligence. The bill, which passed th…
Anthropic's expansion into science tooling and drug discovery is raising enterprise competition concerns among clients who worry the AI vendor may become a competitor. The concerns, reported by BetaKi…
Anthropic announced a new science-focused AI model and plans to develop drugs itself, prompting Palantir's Alex Karp and others to warn enterprises that the company could become a competitor after acc…
AnthropicAI restored access to its AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after the U.S. government lifted export controls on June 30, 2026. Fable 5 is now globally available, while Mythos 5 is limited to 100…
US Commerce Secretary Lutnick announced a collaboration with Anthropic to review and authorize the Fable 5 model, which was suspended due to a national security export control directive. The authoriza…
The U.S. Department of Commerce plans to ease export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 AI model after a security vulnerability was addressed, according to a senior White House official. The move …
Anthropic faces escalating hostility from the Trump administration, including export controls on its Mythos AI model and a Pentagon supply chain risk label, after refusing to comply with new governmen…
OpenAI restricted its new GPT-5.6 Sol AI model to customers approved by the Trump administration, citing government requests amid heightened national security scrutiny. The move follows similar action…
The US Commerce Department permitted Anthropic to release its Mythos 5 AI model to over 100 vetted domestic organizations, partially reversing earlier restrictions. The decision followed Anthropic's c…
Dean W. Ball warns that delays in releasing frontier AI models are eroding the narrow window for labs to recoup enormous training costs, and that the ongoing AI infrastructure buildout assumes a globa…
A new report warns that the artificial intelligence industry is in a speculative bubble reminiscent of the 2008 housing crisis, with companies spending trillions on infrastructure while revenues lag. …
Vice President J. D. Vance is shaping a distinct AI doctrine that balances Silicon Valley's pro-innovation ethos with MAGA's worker-protection and anti-regulation stance, warning that mishandling AI c…
An export-control directive forced Anthropic to pull Fable 5 worldwide, demonstrating that access is not ownership. A developer found GLM-5.2's performance nearly matches Claude Opus 4.7, narrowing th…
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced legislation on Thursday that would impose a 50% stock tax on major AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI, giving the American public a half-stake in these firm…
The Trump administration forced Anthropic to take its most advanced AI models offline after an export control directive, sparking a dispute over unspoken rules. The White House accuses Anthropic of re…
A new PwC analysis of over 1 billion job postings finds that AI is not eliminating entry-level jobs but transforming them into roles requiring skills traditionally associated with experienced workers,…
The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models over a cybersecurity jailbreak vulnerability, marking the first time Washington has targeted a comm…
A MAGA-friendly advocacy group, Innovation Council Action, announced a $100m push to promote Trump's AI agenda but has shown no spending or activity months later, with a related PAC defunct and a diss…
Anthropic disabled its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models worldwide on June 12, 2026, after the U.S. Commerce Department issued an emergency export-control directive barring access by any foreign national. T…