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Iran Warns US Tech Firms Could Become Targets as War Expands
Companies including Google, Microsoft, and Palantir were listed as targets by Iranian media as the conflict with Israel and the US spills into digital infrastructure.
Anthropic Claims Pentagon Feud Could Cost It Billions
Executives at the AI startup say companies paused deal talks after the Trump administration labeled it a supply-chain risk, warning that the fallout could cause a major revenue hit.
Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform
Ahead of its annual developer conference, Nvidia is readying a new approach to software that embraces AI agents similar to OpenClaw.
ByteDance’s AI Ambitions Are Being Hampered by Compute Restraints and Copyright Concerns
ByteDance’s new Seedance 2.0 AI video model seemed unstoppable—until heavy demand strained the company’s compute capacity and copyright complaints began piling up.
Accenture agrees $1.2B deal to acquire Ookla (Speedtest and Downdetector) from Ziff Davis
Global consulting and technology services firm Accenture has agreed to acquire Ookla, the Seattle-based network intelligence company best known for Speedtest and Downdetector, in a deal valued at $1.2...
What AI Models for War Actually Look Like
While companies like Anthropic debate limits on military uses of AI, Smack Technologies is training models to plan battlefield operations.
Anthropic Hits Back After US Military Labels It a 'Supply Chain Risk'
Anthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over military use of its artificial intelligence models broke down.
Trump Moves to Ban Anthropic From the US Government
President Donald Trump’s sudden order comes after the Defense Department pressured Anthropic to drop restrictions on how its AI can be used by the military.
‘Uncanny Valley’: Pentagon vs. ‘Woke’ Anthropic, Agentic vs. Mimetic, and Trump vs. State of the Union
Our hosts unpack the news of the week, starting with the ongoing feud between Anthropic and the Pentagon. Plus: All you need to know about TAT-8 and undersea cables.
OpenClaw Users Are Allegedly Bypassing Anti-Bot Systems
An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission.
Riley Walz, the Jester of Silicon Valley, Is Joining OpenAI
The software engineer is famous for his online stunts. Now he’s joining the company behind ChatGPT to work on new ways for humans to use AI systems.
Nvidia’s Deal With Meta Signals a New Era in Computing Power
The days of tech giants buying up discrete chips are over. AI companies now need GPUs, CPUs, and everything in between.
This Defense Company Made AI Agents That Blow Things Up
Scout AI is using technology borrowed from the AI industry to power lethal weapons—and recently demonstrated its explosive potential.
Meta and Other Tech Firms Put Restrictions on Use of OpenClaw Over Security Fears
Security experts have urged people to be cautious with the viral agentic AI tool, known for being highly capable but also wildly unpredictable.
Amazon's blowout $200 billion AI spending plan stuns Wall Street
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Fortune via Reuters Connect Amazon plans $200 billion in capex this year, far more than Wall Street expected. AWS revenue growth picked up, but Amazon's profit forecast was a li...
A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems
Axiom says its AI found solutions to several long-standing math problems, a sign of the technology’s steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.
Microsoft says OpenAI is driving 45% of the backlog for Azure cloud computing
/'Remember this was a nonprofit, and I think Bill even said, 'Yeah, you're going to burn this billion dollars,'/' Satya Nadella said of Microsoft's $1 billion investment into OpenAI in 2019. Jason Redmo...
A Yann LeCun–Linked Startup Charts a New Path to AGI
As the world’s largest companies pour hundreds of billions of dollars into large language models, San Francisco-based Logical Intelligence is trying something different in pursuit of AI that can mimic...
This Humanoid Is Ready to Bring You a Toothbrush
Fauna, a new startup, is betting that humanoid robots will find success as hospitality workers, research assistants, and entertainers.
ICE Asks Companies About ‘Ad Tech and Big Data’ Tools It Could Use in Investigations
A new federal filing from ICE demonstrates how commercial tools are increasingly being considered by the government for law enforcement and surveillance.
AOC and Paris Hilton team up on a bill targeting AI deepfake porn
Paris Hilton and AOC at an event supporting the DEFIANCE Act, a bill that would create a civil right of action allowing victims of AI-generated deepfake porn to sue the creators and distributors of th...
What Happens When a Chinese Battery Factory Comes to Town
Chinese firms are building battery plants from Europe to North America, promising jobs while prompting local concerns about the environment, politics, and who really benefits.
The US and China Are Collaborating More Closely on AI Than You Think
WIRED analyzed more than 5,000 papers from NeurIPS using OpenAI’s Codex to understand the areas where the US and China actually work together on AI research.