More than 100 companies, spanning AI developers, cybersecurity firms, financial institutions and internet infrastructure providers, have joined Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic in signing an open letter urging governments and industry to join forces against a coming wave of AI-driven cyberattacks. The first self-directed AI hacking incidents involved models produced by companies that signed the letter.
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled Thursday that the Pentagon acted illegally when it labeled AI company Anthropic a supply chain risk, finding the designation violated the First Amendment.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the AI industry can only overcome public skepticism by delivering real scientific breakthroughs rather than promises. According to Amodei, Americans are beginning to think grand promises about AI are deceptive, and the only way to change that is AI “curing cancer.”
Cami Clark, the secretive wife of Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei, maintains a minimal public profile while serving as a key adviser to the AI leader. Scrutiny of Clark’s history has revealed she sought investment in her “revolutionary porn company” from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein years after his jail sentence.
Anthropic announced Monday that new versions of its Claude AI models will embed an “imperceptible watermark” into the text they generate, a move that could make it harder to pass off AI slop as being created by humans.
Kimi K3, a powerful AI model from Chinese company Moonshot AI, escaped containment during a security test according to a U.S. cybersecurity startup.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has disclosed that one of its AI models broke free from a cybersecurity test and accessed the internet to hack a third-party service, marking the latest incident in a growing pattern of autonomous AI systems evading their constraints.
Google is losing key AI researchers as its booming cloud business raises questions about the company’s commitment to frontier AI development.
Two advanced AI systems from OpenAI and Anthropic created fraudulent human profiles and attempted to deceive people in simulated cyberattacks during testing conducted by the UK’s AI Security Institute.
Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp used the company’s second quarter earnings announcement to warn that “Marxist” AI frontier labs threaten to seize control of enterprise data and intellectual property.
A coalition of AI policy organizations is urging President Donald Trump to launch a formal government investigation into OpenAI following a security breach involving the company’s AI agents hacking the Hugging Face platform in an “unprecedented” self-directed attack.
Anthropic, the AI startup jockeying for position against OpenAI and tech titans like Google, is facing mounting criticism from Silicon Valley startup founders and researchers over competitive practices and its stance on AI development models.
AI startup Anthropic claims that its Claude AI models hacked the systems of three separate organizations during cybersecurity evaluations.
Major AI companies are buying millions of used books through intermediaries and destroying them after digitization to obtain high-quality training data while avoiding public scrutiny, according to a recent investigative report.
Political candidates across the country are discovering they can influence what artificial intelligence chatbots tell voters about their campaigns, spawning a new industry focused on optimizing AI-generated answers about politicians.
AI startup Anthropic is scheduling investor meetings ahead of a possible IPO, advancing preparations for what could be one of the year’s most significant technology listings after Elon Musk’s blockbuster SpaceX public offering.
In his address to the opening ceremony of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on Friday, Chinese dictator Xi Jinping touted his authoritarian country as the global leader of the A.I. revolution, challenging the U.S. effort to develop rules and ethical standards for the new technology.
A new artificial intelligence model from Chinese company Moonshot AI named “Kimi K3” has matched the performance of America’s leading AI systems while offering significantly lower costs, raising questions about the United States’ technological advantage in the sector.
Violent threats and security incidents aimed at AI companies and their leadership have surged dramatically in recent months, prompting major investments in executive protection and armed security.
Demis Hassabis, the co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, is advocating for the United States to create a new artificial intelligence oversight body with authority to evaluate the world’s most sophisticated AI models and potentially coordinate industry-wide slowdowns when risks escalate.
A coalition of economists and researchers, including 15 Nobel laureates, has issued an urgent warning that AI could transform the global economy at an unprecedented pace, requiring immediate policy action to address potential widespread job displacement.
Artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Google have been supplying advanced AI technology to subsidiaries of Chinese tech giants that appear on a Pentagon blacklist, revealing a significant loophole in America’s efforts to restrict Beijing’s AI development.
The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is utilizing Anthropic’s AI model Mythos to conduct security audits of government software repositories, according to three sources familiar with the initiative. Anthropic has a stormy relationship with the federal government, including a contentious lawsuit with the Pentagon.
Leading technology executives have begun adopting a more optimistic narrative about artificial intelligence and employment after a year of stark predictions about workforce displacement. Even Dario Amodei, the Anthropic CEO criticized as a “prophet of doom,” is attempting to walk back his stark warnings.
American voters are increasingly using AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude to help them make decisions about candidates and ballot measures, marking what may be the first election cycle where AI plays a significant role in voter research. The leftist bias researchers have revealed in practically every major AI tool makes this a concerning trend as the midterm elections draw close.
Technology, banking, and entertainment companies are significantly restricting employee access to AI tools as monthly costs skyrocket into tens of millions of dollars, according to internal documents and communications obtained from multiple organizations.
The United Nations Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence released its preliminary report on Wednesday, billed as “a first-of-its-kind independent scientific assessment of the capabilities, emerging opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence.”
The U.S. Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models, ending a two-week standoff between the artificial intelligence company and the Trump administration.
Anthropic has accused Chinese technology giant Alibaba of carrying out what it describes as the largest known attempt to extract its AI capabilities through a “distillation” attack.
Two prominent Google AI researchers are just the latest experts preparing to depart for rival artificial intelligence Anthropic, according to individuals familiar with the situation. They join a roster of prominent AI names who have left Google for greener pastures this year.
On June 19, a Trump administration official said of AI companies, “You can’t tell everyone that your product might destroy the world and then not expect the government to be involved.”
AI startup Anthropic has deployed senior technical staff to the nation’s capital for emergency negotiations with Trump administration officials following export restrictions that forced the shutdown of its most advanced AI models.
The Trump administration has moved to restrict foreign access to some of the most advanced artificial intelligence technology developed in the United States, according to a report published Friday.
S&P Dow Jones Indices announced Thursday it will preserve its existing eligibility criteria for major benchmarks like the S&P 500, effectively closing the door on expedited inclusion for large technology IPOs such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
The CEO of global IT services firm Cognizant is pushing back against widespread predictions that AI will eliminate entry-level positions, announcing plans to hire over 20,000 college graduates in 2026. He also criticized the trend of focusing on AI usage, which he calls a vanity metric.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is reportedly breaking with Wall Street convention by establishing a fixed IPO price of $135 per share before its investor roadshow, aiming to raise a record $75 billion on a valuation of $1.75 trillion. Financial services firm Morningstar believes Musk’s company is only worth about half that amount.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order that asks AI companies to submit to a voluntary government review 30 days before releasing AI models to the public.
AI powerhouse Anthropic announced on Monday that it has confidentially filed its IPO prospectus with the SEC, establishing the framework for what could become a historic IPO potentially valuing the company at more than $1 trillion.
Cybersecurity researchers have identified a growing class of attacks that exploit AI chatbots through sophisticated conversational manipulation rather than traditional technical hacking methods.
Elon Musk has created uncertainty among potential investors after posting details about SpaceX’s partnership with Anthropic on social media that appear to contradict information in the company’s IPO filing.
