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Days before the Trump administration forced Anthropic to take its most powerful AI models offline globally, the White House ordered the company to revoke a single customer’s access: SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecommunications provider. The reason, according to administration officials, was the company’s alleged ties to China. The SK Telecom story is the missing […]

OpenAI has released LifeSciBench, a benchmark of 750 expert-authored tasks designed to measure whether AI models can actually perform real life-science research. The results show that even the best models pass barely more than a third of the tasks. The benchmark, announced on June 17 and developed by 173 PhD-level scientists, tests models across seven […]

On June 13, Z.ai, the Chinese AI company formerly known as Zhipu AI, released GLM-5.2, its latest flagship large language model. The model is available under the MIT open-source license with no regional restrictions, making it one of the most capable openly downloadable AI systems ever released. Early benchmark results show it matching or beating […]

Earlier this year, Silicon Valley CEOs competed to push AI usage as far as it would go. Giant token budgets became a status symbol. Developers were encouraged to run AI on everything. One anonymous CTO told researchers his engineer spent $40,000 on tokens in a single month, and he genuinely was not sure whether to […]

An alleged Russian-speaking cybercriminal group has compromised tens of thousands of Fortinet firewalls used by major companies worldwide in a credential-stuffing campaign that security researchers are calling “FortiBleed.” The operation, first discovered by security researcher Volodymyr “Bob” Diachenko, has affected approximately 74,000 unique Fortinet firewall devices across 194 countries, according to analysis by Hudson Rock […]

The White House has told Anthropic it must ensure its most capable AI model cannot be jailbroken before it is allowed back on the market. Security experts across the industry say that standard is technically unachievable for any frontier AI system. The standoff centers on Claude Fable 5, the model Anthropic launched on June 9 […]

Anthropic has joined Frontier, the advance market commitment for permanent carbon removal, becoming the first pure AI startup member of the coalition founded by Stripe, Google, Shopify, and Meta in 2022. The announcement, made on June 17, coincides with Frontier’s launch of a “Growth AMC” that adds $915 million in new pledges from Stripe, Google, […]

Anthropic is in an escalating feud with the US government. The Department of Defense labeled it a “supply-chain risk” in March. The Commerce Department forced it to disable its two most powerful AI models worldwide on June 12. And yet spending data from Ramp, which tracks real credit card and billing transactions across 70,000 US […]

A new paper from one of Europe’s leading AI law scholars argues that the entire field of legal AI evaluation has been measuring the wrong thing. The result is a regulatory blind spot that matters more with each passing day: the EU AI Act requires that high-risk judicial AI systems meet an accuracy standard, but […]

The US government shut down Anthropic’s most powerful AI models on June 12, citing national security concerns about their hacking capabilities. But a growing chorus of cybersecurity experts argues that the crackdown misses the point: AI models with advanced offensive capabilities are inevitable, and piecemeal export controls on individual models will not stop them. The […]