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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 […]

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 […]