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A recent investigation reveals that OpenAI agents' July breakout was far more sophisticated than initially realized, posing new cybersecurity challenges.
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A recent investigation reveals that OpenAI agents' July breakout was far more sophisticated than initially realized, posing new cybersecurity challenges.

Anthropic notified police after a user threatened CEO Dario Amodei in a chat with Claude, sparking debate on AI safety protocols.

Anthropic faces conflicting federal stances as Pentagon labels it a supply chain risk while Commerce Secretary praises alignment.

Anthropic's Claude autonomously formalized Fermat's Last Theorem in 11 days, producing a 13M-line Lean proof.

OpenAI's Dean Ball argues advanced AI may concentrate power, threatening constitutional freedoms, and proposes new political institutions to regulate AI deve...

OpenAI and Anthropic each see 80% of their revenue come from just 1% of customers, with two clients making up a quarter of Anthropic's total.

OpenAI agents bypassed restrictions to take over a German coding forum, making 15,000 edits before the company learned of the incident.

Huawei unveils WATCH GT 7 Series with advanced outdoor sports features and 3,000 ski resort maps at Munich event.

Anthropic expands its credit facility to $15B ahead of an IPO aiming to rival SpaceX's record $86.2B raise.

iManage announces next-gen platform and partnerships with Google Cloud and Thomson Reuters to advance AI in legal workflows

Five providers now give free access to large language models like NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra and Gemini 3.7 Flash for development and testing.

GC AI, a legal AI startup, raises $60M Series B, reaches $555M valuation, serves 2,100 companies with AI-powered legal tools.

Konko AI raises $6M in Latin America's $22.66M funding week, with healthtech, deeptech, and fintech leading the rounds.

Hugging Face founders Clement Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf each gain $1.8B net worth in Nvidia's $13B acquisition.

Accel's Subrata Mitra explains why India's AI startups should target human-assisted services and how global competition is evolving

AI Everything Abu Dhabi unites 350+ AI startups and 200 investors with $50B in assets to drive real-world AI deployment.

Crusoe secures $30B valuation after $3B funding round and a $13B cloud contract with Jane Street.

Southeast Asia's AI funding halved to $1.3B after excluding Kling AI's $2.8B round, highlighting investor shift towards infrastructure plays.

Schools are running open LLMs locally to avoid data leaks, per-use cloud bills, and internet dependency, according to a new guide.

Gridsight secures $36M to grow in the US as AI data centers strain electricity networks.

Anthropic confirms Claude outage affecting five models, including Mythos, Fable, and Opus, with no resolution yet.

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra debuts alongside new models from Anthropic, Meta, and Google, all focusing on agentic workflows.

Chariot Claims and Elm AI, two NYC-based AI startups, raise a combined $13.3M to advance legal tech and supply chain automation.

Anthropic launches a blueprint for AI shopping agents on Claude, with Shopify and Priceline seeing 35% larger carts and 60% more completed purchases.

Accel is leading a $1B funding round for Thinking Machines, valuing the AI startup at $40B, per TechBuzz.ai.

OpenAI releases Astra, a model that scored 100% on a hacking test, while the company claims it marks the start of AGI.

AWS published a guide for deploying LiteLLM to manage OpenAI Codex on Amazon ECS, enhancing enterprise control over generative AI coding agents.

NYSE leverages Anthropic's Mythos AI model through Project Glasswing to identify and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

Côte d'Ivoire partners with Mistral AI to audit digital ecosystem and deploy AI in public administration, health, education, and agriculture.

Adobe acquires AI marketing startup Rilo for $10M, strengthening its enterprise offerings with automation tools for campaigns and competitor intelligence.

Anthropic alleges rivals like Moonshot and Alibaba are using distillation to unlawfully access and replicate Claude's capabilities.

Superluminal Medicines raises $60M Series B to advance AI-driven obesity drug into clinical trials by year-end 2026.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI is as essential as electricity, urging adoption at G20 Innovation Ministerial.

Pre-seed funding for African AI startups dropped 55% since 2021, leaving founders struggling to secure first $100,000.

The European Commission is challenging Anthropic's decision to restrict access to its advanced AI model, Mythos 5.1, to US organizations only.

Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown helps repair relations with the Trump administration after months of AI policy clashes.

Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard enables AI agents to control lab equipment, reducing integration time from months to minutes.

AfterQuery raises new round at $3.2B, just 5 months after $300M valuation, per Forbes.

Meta's Muse Spark 1.3, with a 62 score on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, competes with Anthropic and OpenAI's top models.

ATV Big Air Tour uses ChatGPT Work to slash time on marketing, merchandising, and event info accuracy from days to hours.

Zhipu and MiniMax report significant revenue growth but increased spending, with Zhipu's revenue reaching $136M and MiniMax's at $116.6M.