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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 […]

OpenAI’s confidential financial documents paint a stark picture of a company caught between explosive growth and staggering losses. The documents, leaked as the company pursues a blockbuster IPO, show a business that tripled revenue to $13.07 billion in 2025 while spending $34 billion. A burn rate that is only accelerating. The numbers come from internal […]

Content safety guardrails for large language models have largely been built for English-speaking users. OpenAI’s Moderation API, the most widely deployed option, classifies content into standard categories like hate speech, violence, and sexual content. Alibaba Cloud offers similar moderation for the Chinese market. But neither system captures the specific regulatory and cultural dimensions needed for […]

Computer-use agents that can control desktops and browse the web are becoming a production category. OpenAI’s Operator, Anthropic’s Claude Computer Use, and Meta’s Manus Desktop are all competing for enterprise deployments. But a new benchmark from researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz reveals a blind spot in how these systems are evaluated: passing […]

On Friday, June 12, at 5:21 PM Eastern time, the US Commerce Department sent a letter to Anthropic invoking an obscure export control directive. The demand was stark: block all non-Americans, including Anthropic’s own employees, from accessing the company’s most powerful AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. By that evening, Anthropic had pulled both […]

The UK government announced Monday it will ban social media for everyone under 16, with rules taking effect in spring 2027. The policy goes further than any previous national restriction, adding curbs on livestreaming, stranger communication, AI romantic companion chatbots, and potential overnight curfews for under-18s. Prime Minister Keir Starmer framed the move as the […]

A satellite equipped with a vision-language model has demonstrated the ability to detect objects of interest in orbit autonomously, responding to natural-language queries without ground control intervention (TechCrunch). The satellite, called Yam-9 and operated by San Francisco-based Loft Orbital, carries a NASA JPL-developed AI software package called NAVI-Orbital running on an Nvidia Jetson Orin AGX […]

Fox Corporation has agreed to acquire Roku for approximately $22 billion, merging one of the largest content libraries in television with the leading streaming operating system in a deal that reshapes the streaming landscape (The Verge; CNBC; Fox press release). Roku shareholders will receive $160 per share, composed of $96 in cash and 0.9693 shares […]

A new generation of solid-state air conditioning technology promises to eliminate refrigerants and compressors from cooling, but researchers warn that the gap between lab demonstrations and real-world performance remains wide (MIT Technology Review). Solid-state cooling relies on physical principles that cause materials to heat up or cool down when exposed to electric fields, magnetic fields, […]

The curl project will not accept vulnerability reports for the entire month of July, its maintainers announced Monday, calling the break a “summer of bliss” aimed at escaping the relentless pressure of AI-generated security submissions (Daniel Stenberg blog; LWN.net). The HackerOne submission form will be paused starting July 1. The project’s security email address will […]