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Anthropic PBC, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, has reportedly reached a $965 billion valuation following its Series H funding round led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital. The valua…
Meta and Google are integrating AI-powered image and video generators into Instagram, WhatsApp, and Google Photos, enabling users to create and edit photorealistic content with simple text prompts. The tools, including M…
The Bank of England is closely monitoring the risks artificial intelligence poses to financial stability, warning that its impact could exceed previous technology booms and potentially create an asset bubble.
Meta Platforms Inc. faces backlash after launching Muse Image, an AI tool that lets users manipulate public Instagram photos without consent. Privacy advocates and regulators criticize the default opt-in policy, warning …
Anthropic suspended its most powerful AI model, Claude Fable 5, due to security and firewall issues, raising concerns about the model's ability to bypass safeguards. Users question whether Anthropic reduced the model's p…
OpenAI will release GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna on Thursday after initially delaying the launch due to US government requests to restrict access. The White House later clarified it did not require or approve the release…
NATO is building the Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative, an AI-enabled defense network using thousands of sensors, drones, satellites, and uncrewed systems to detect and slow attacks near Russia-facing borders. The syst…
A quantitative model suggests that even extensive kinetic attacks on AI compute infrastructure would delay U.S. and Chinese progress toward superintelligence by only 1-5 years, and nationalizing surviving compute could o…
SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5, an Opus-class model targeting coding and enterprise work, priced at $2 per million input tokens to undercut rivals OpenAI and Anthropic. The model, built with acquired startup Cursor, aims to …
Cheyenne, Wyoming, suspended all data center wastewater discharge after a Meta contractor flushed a rare, multidrug-resistant bacterium into the city's water system. The bacterium, Cupriavidus gilardii, was found in the …
NATO is building an AI-guided 'Kill Web' along its eastern flank to detect and block Russian attacks before they penetrate deeper into Alliance territory. The Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative (EFDI) uses sensors, dron…
The Paris Peace Forum, a French nonprofit, launched the Integrated Network for Trusted AI in Cyberspace (INTAiC) to assess AI-related cyber threats to global internet infrastructure. The initiative will create a coalitio…
The Federal Reserve attributed a 3.4% annualized rise in core inflation as of May 2026 to artificial intelligence-related price pressures and tariffs, complicating the path to rate cuts and increasing the likelihood of p…
Liberty Mutual Insurance adapted to the temporary suspension of Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model by using its internal AI resources, including LibertyGPT, after a U.S. Commerce Department directive over national security con…
Noma Labs disclosed GitLost, a prompt injection vulnerability in GitHub's Agentic Workflows feature, on July 6, 2026. The attack allows unauthenticated attackers to exfiltrate data from private repositories by posting a …
China's five government agencies jointly issued the Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interactive Services on April 10, 2026, targeting AI systems that simulate human personalities and emotion…
Bank of America extended a $520 million credit line to OpenAI, reversing an earlier rejection, as the AI company prepares for a potential IPO that could value it at nearly $1 trillion. The loan positions BofA as a key ba…
At ISTELive 2026 in Orlando, educators explored moving AI from experimentation to practical classroom use, with Microsoft announcing new tools like Teach, Assignments with AI guidelines, and the Study and Learn Agent. Ke…
Chinese food-delivery company Meituan trained a 1.6-trillion-parameter language model, LongCat-2.0, using approximately 50,000 domestic AI chips without any NVIDIA GPUs. The model activates only 48 billion parameters per…
Anthropic is leasing a 466,000-square-foot building in Manhattan, planning to double its New York City workforce to 1,000 employees by 2026. The AI company, which raised $95 billion in recent funding rounds, also signed …