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Beatrice Nolan

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AI’s free-for-all era may be coming to an end—as companies start counting the cost

Executives at VivaTech say the rush to deploy AI is giving way to tighter controls, a shift to cheaper models, and a growing focus on what actually...

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Beatrice Nolan

The shutdown of Anthropic’s Mythos model sparks a global scramble for sovereign AI

Washington's decision to cut off access to Anthropic's newest frontier AI has forced Europe into a reckoning.

16.06.2026 0

Fortune

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BYD wants to become the world’s largest automaker in five years. Stella Li is the executive selling that vision to the world

Stella Li has driven BYD’s rapid rise into the world’s largest EV maker, spearheading its global expansion across Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

15.06.2026 3

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Beatrice Nolan

A warning from Amazon led the White House to shut down Anthropic’s Mythos model

Amazon's CEO raised the alarm about a jailbreak in Anthropic's Fable 5 model, triggering an unprecedented export control order and a fresh clash with...

14.06.2026 5

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Anthropic releases its first Mythos-class model to the public

Anthropic first announced Mythos in April, which it called a "step change" in capabilities, but opted to tightly control its rollout through an...

09.06.2026 9

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Apple debuts Siri AI at WWDC as Tim Cook prepares to hand over the reins

At WWDC 2026, Apple unveiled a rebuilt Siri, new AI photography tools, and a stand-alone assistant app in its most ambitious AI push to date.

08.06.2026 5

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Anthropic warns AI could soon build itself without human involvement—and urges a global pause on development

The AI lab valued at $965 billion is urging a pause on AI development, just as it heads toward an IPO.

05.06.2026 10

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World’s largest sovereign wealth fund backs push for Google oversight on government use of its AI and cloud technology

A coalition of investors managing $1.15 trillion is pressing Alphabet to explain how it monitors government use of its cloud and AI services.

04.06.2026 7

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Amazon and Google have billions riding on Anthropic. The IPO will finally reveal how much.

Anthropic, valued at $965 billion, has filed confidentially for an IPO. Amazon and Google, two of its early backers, stand to be among the biggest...

04.06.2026 8

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Asana was battered by the AI boom. Now it’s betting its future on humans and agents working together.

Nine months in, CEO Dan Rogers is betting a $75 million acquisition of AI agent builder Stack AI can reposition the company for the AI era.

29.05.2026 5

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Anthropic leapfrogs OpenAI with a record $965 billion valuation and says its ‘Mythos’ AI model is coming soon

The AI lab behind Claude has raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation, shipped a new flagship model, and signaled its long-withheld Mythos AI is...

29.05.2026 5

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The big questions looming over OpenAI’s trillion-dollar IPO

A public listing would be one of Silicon Valley’s biggest wealth events, but OpenAI’s filing may also expose the financial and existential risks...

22.05.2026 8

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Anthropic lands in London as AI-powered coding—and the anxieties around it—go mainstream

Anthropic’s top brass decamped to the U.K. this week, pitching Claude as a safer way to automate coding while engineers mull what it means for their...

21.05.2026 10

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Exclusive: AI startup Viktor raises $75 million to put a virtual ‘coworker’ in Slack and Teams

The former Meta engineers behind Viktor say their AI agent has hit a $15 million revenue run rate in about 10 weeks.

19.05.2026 10

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Parag Agrawal’s AI startup wants to pay publishers when AI agents use their work

The former Twitter CEO’s AI startup is launching Index, a platform to estimate how much content owners contribute to AI agent tasks.

19.05.2026 10

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Beatrice Nolan

Cerebras CEO says AI chip demand is ‘not speculative’ as shares double in blockbuster IPO debut

The offering is one of the largest U.S. tech IPOs in years and is seen as a wider stress test for a wave of AI listings Wall Street is bracing for...

14.05.2026 10

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Chatbots are becoming mental health tools before they are ready

Chatbots are becoming a first stop for emotional support for many users, but new research suggests their tendency to provide reassurance can be...

12.05.2026 10

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Exclusive: White Circle raises $11 million to stop AI models from going rogue in the workplace

The Paris startup, backed by leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Mistral, and Hugging Face, says companies need real-time tools to control what...

12.05.2026 20

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UK-based Google DeepMind workers vote to unionize over military AI contracts amid internal backlash over its Pentagon deal

London-based employees are demanding that Google walk back its Pentagon deal, but the power workers once had to kill such contracts has eroded...

05.05.2026 10

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Employee revolt once forced Google to back off on military contracts. But, in the wake of a new Pentagon AI contract, their leverage appears limited

Google's agreement with the Pentagon may be the most permissive yet among major AI firms.

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Anthropic says engineering missteps were behind Claude Code’s month-long decline after weeks of user backlash

Claude Code turned Anthropic into developers' most trusted AI platform. A month of degraded performance is now threatening the goodwill that fuelled...

24.04.2026 10

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Anthropic’s Mythos cybersecurity capabilities require urgent international cooperation, AI godfather Yoshua Bengio says

Anthropic's decision to limit Mythos's release has raised question about AI's concentration of power in the hands of just a few American companies

17.04.2026 20

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Anti-AI sentiment is on the rise—and it’s starting to turn violent

The AI industry spent years warning the world that its technology was dangerous. It seems people believe them.

16.04.2026 20

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Anthropic is facing a wave of user backlash over reports of performance issues with its Claude AI chatbot

"Claude has regressed to the point [that] it cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering," one developer wrote.

14.04.2026 30

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Anthropic is limiting access to its latest AI model, Mythos. The real risks may already be out there

Anthropic is limiting access to its latest model, but similar capabilities may already be within reach.

10.04.2026 10

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What Anthropic’s too-dangerous-to-release AI model means for its upcoming IPO

Anthropic says it has built its most capable AI model ever. It's also decided you can't have it.

10.04.2026 30

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Anthropic is giving companies, including Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, access to its unreleased Claude Mythos model to prepare cybersecurity defense

Fortune first reported that Anthropic was developing and testing the new model, which the company described as "by far the most powerful AI model”...

07.04.2026 20

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Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup that works with companies including OpenAI and Anthropic, confirms major data breach

Mercor confirmed it was hit by a supply chain attack targeting LiteLLM, a widely used AI developer tool. Extortion gang Lapsus$ claims to have walked...

02.04.2026 30

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Anthropic mistakenly leaks its own AI coding tool’s source code, just days after accidentally revealing an upcoming model known as “Mythos”

Hundreds of thousands of lines of code were exposed, giving researchers insight into upcoming models and internal architecture.

31.03.2026 30

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Exclusive: Anthropic left details of an unreleased model, exclusive CEO retreat, sitting in an unsecured data trove in a significant security lapse

Details of not-yet-disclosed models, unpublished blog drafts, and other private information was inadvertently made accessible via the company’s...

26.03.2026 20

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Exclusive: Anthropic acknowledges testing new AI model representing ‘step change’ in capabilities, after accidental data leak reveals its existence

AI company Anthropic is testing a previously undisclosed AI model called 'Mythos' that is significantly more capable than anything it has previously...

26.03.2026 30

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Beatrice Nolan

An AI agent destroyed this coder’s entire database. He’s not the only one with a horror story.

AI coding tools are deleting databases, crashing systems, and piling on technical debt even as bosses tout ‘productivity’

18.03.2026 20

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Microsoft launches Copilot Health, a dedicated space for personal health data and AI-driven insights

Microsoft joins OpenAI and Anthropic in the race to become the AI front door for consumer healthcare.

12.03.2026 20

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Google and OpenAI employees back Anthropic in a legal fight that could redefine military use of AI

As researchers at rival companies publicly back Anthropic's legal fight with the Trump Administration, a dispute over military contracts could tip...

10.03.2026 20

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Anthropic sues the Pentagon after being labeled a threat to national security

The lawsuit calls the administration's actions "unprecedented and unlawful."

09.03.2026 10

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Anthropic CEO apologizes for leaked memo calling OpenAI staff ‘gullible’ as company confirms supply chain risk designation

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei walks back attacks on rival OpenAI, but says it will challenge the supply chain risk designation in court

06.03.2026 20

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OpenAI launches GPT-5.4, its most powerful model for enterprise work—and a direct shot at Anthropic

OpenAI's new flagship model takes aim at the enterprise market—and at Anthropic.

05.03.2026 20

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Exclusive: CrowdStrike and SentinelOne veterans raise $34M to tackle enterprise AI’s governance gap

As companies deploy AI at scale, JetStream wants to give enterprises a way to see, control, and stop it.

03.03.2026 30

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Sam Altman says OpenAI is renegotiating with the Pentagon after an ‘opportunistic and sloppy’ deal

The renegotiated terms come after OpenAI faced a wave of backlash from inside and outside the company.

03.03.2026 30

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OpenAI’s Pentagon deal raises new questions about AI and mass surveillance

Legal experts say it is unclear if OpenAI's contract actually provides for the restrictions on surveillance and autonomous weapons that the company...

03.03.2026 20

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The Pentagon brands Anthropic’s CEO a ‘liar’ with a ‘God-complex’ as deadline looms over AI use in weapons and surveillance

The Department of War has given Anthropic until 5 p.m. Friday to remove restrictions on how the military can use its AI, or face being labeled a...

27.02.2026 30

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India’s AI Impact Summit closes with the New Delhi Declaration and a $200 billion boost

The Global AI Summit produced a sweeping declaration, billions in investment, and voluntary commitments from tech giants.

23.02.2026 10

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Beatrice Nolan

Inside India’s AI Impact Summit: Robot fraud, gridlocked roads, and a no-show from Bill Gates

India's AI Impact Summit promised to reshape the global AI order. It also featured a stolen robot dog, hours of traffic, and a no-show from Bill...

23.02.2026 30

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Bill Gates pulls out of India’s AI summit at the last minute in the latest blow to an event dogged by organizational chaos

The Microsoft founder's abrupt withdrawal, amid renewed scrutiny over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, capped a chaotic few days for an event already...

19.02.2026 30

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai says AI spending still makes sense despite bubble fears

The Google CEO touched down in New Delhi this week with a string of new India investments in tow.

19.02.2026 40

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AI investments surge in India as tech leaders convene for Delhi summit

Blackstone, AMD, and Tata Consultancy Services unveil major infrastructure plans as OpenAI and Anthropic focus on India growth.

17.02.2026 20

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OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude spark coding revolution as developers say they’ve abandoned traditional programming

New releases from OpenAI and Anthropic sparked an existential crisis among coders, but many engineers say they stopped coding months ago.

14.02.2026 100

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OpenAI appears to have violated California’s AI safety law with latest model release, watchdog claims

The company’s newest AI model triggered its own “high” risk classification—but critics say OpenAI didn’t follow through on the safety...

11.02.2026 30

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Anthropic’s Claude triggered a trillion-dollar selloff. A new upgrade could make things worse

Anthropic has unveiled Claude Opus 4.6, an advanced AI model capable of conducting sophisticated professional tasks and working in coordinated teams.

07.02.2026 30

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Anthropic’s newest model excels at finding security vulnerabilities—but raises fresh cybersecurity risks

Claude Opus 4.6 identified over 500 previously unknown 'zero day' vulnerabilities, according to Anthropic security experts

07.02.2026 20

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