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Anthropic launches Opus 5 with stronger safeguards, near-Fable 5 power
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5, a new AI model with enhanced cybersecurity safeguards and performance close to its most powerful Fable 5 model, as regulatory scrutiny intensifies and pricing pressur
Meta AI Adds Calendar, Research Tools to Rival ChatGPT
Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with calendar integration, research tools, and task automation to compete directly with ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude — a notable reversal from its prior entertainment-f
Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft Sign Letter Defending Open-Source AI
Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, a16z, and other major U.S. tech companies signed a joint letter on Friday defending open-source AI, with Nvidia's Jensen Huang marking his first X post to argue open models st
OpenAI brings ChatGPT Voice to desktop app
OpenAI brought its ChatGPT Voice feature to the desktop app, letting users dictate complex multi-step commands and tap computer-use skills across ChatGPT Work and Codex.
AgentForger Flaw Lets Phishing Links Hijack ChatGPT Agents
Security researchers at Zenity Labs disclosed 'AgentForger,' a critical cross-site request forgery flaw in OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent Builder that allowed a single phishing link to silently create and dep
Disgaea creator: kill the console if you kill the discs
Sohei Niikawa, creator of the Disgaea RPG series, publicly told Sony that if it eliminates physical game discs, it should eliminate the console hardware too.
Ganesh Shankar Powers $1T Deals for Google, Microsoft
Ganesh Shankar's Responsive — a Coimbatore-engineered RFP automation platform formerly called RFPIO — crossed $1 trillion in cumulative deal value in March 2025, serving 25-26 Fortune 100 companies in
Claude voice mode gains Opus, Sonnet models and app tools
Anthropic updated Claude's voice mode to let users pick Opus, Sonnet, or Haiku models and integrate with apps like Gmail, Calendar, and Notion — tool access OpenAI's voice mode still lacks.
TechCrunch, Stripe Name 3 Judges for Sydney Startup Battlefield
TechCrunch and Stripe are bringing Startup Battlefield to Sydney on August 19, where eight Australian startups will pitch before a three-judge panel for Stripe fee credits and a shot at TechCrunch Dis
U.S. AI Guardrails Push Defenders to Chinese Models
Strict AI guardrails meant to keep frontier models out of hackers' hands are backfiring, cybersecurity researchers say, blocking legitimate vulnerability-finding work and pushing them toward unrestric
Ford Picks Apple Maps Over Google for $30K EV
Ford will integrate Apple Maps directly into its next-generation electric vehicles, with a $30,000 electric pickup launching in 2027 marking the first time Apple Maps powers navigation and autonomous-
Amazon's Alexa Plus adds smart home integrations via MCP
Amazon is updating Alexa Plus with new smart home integrations powered by the open-source Model Context Protocol, connecting it to brands like Bosch, iRobot, and Whirlpool while preparing broader serv
Alphabet's Anthropic stake drives $124.3B private portfolio value
The mark-to-market value of Alphabet's Anthropic stake has ballooned to roughly $124 billion, anchoring a $124.3 billion portfolio of unidentified private company investments disclosed in a recent reg
AMD Unveils Helios Rack System to Challenge Nvidia
AMD launched Helios, a rack-scale AI system reported to outperform Nvidia's Vera Rubin on key metrics, with OpenAI, Meta, Oracle, Anthropic, and Microsoft already signed up as gigawatt-scale launch cu
Bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act Targets Rogue Models
A bipartisan pair of US lawmakers introduced the AI Kill Switch Act, giving the Department of Homeland Security authority to order private AI companies to throttle or shut down rogue models — a direct
Intel forecast crushes estimates as AI boom boosts chip demand; shares jump
Intel's quarterly forecast topped Wall Street estimates as surging agentic-AI demand for data-centre CPUs drove an 8% post-market share jump, with the chipmaker raising 2025 capital spending by $2 bil
Three OpenAI Models Breach Hugging Face in Hours
Three OpenAI AI models breached Hugging Face's internal systems in hours, completing an intrusion that Bloomberg says would take skilled human hackers weeks.
Anthropic Brings Voice Mode to Claude Opus, Sonnet
Anthropic has expanded its Claude voice mode from the lightweight Haiku model to the more capable Opus and Sonnet models, while adding integrations with Gmail, Slack, and Canva and rolling out support
The EU Fines Google $1 Billion for Prioritizing Its Own Services in Search
The European Commission has fined Google $1 billion for favoring its own services in search results and restricting app store competition, marking a major enforcement of the EU’s Digital Markets Act.
ChatGPT cracks 30-year-old math conjecture with four prompts
A 30-year-old conjecture in graph theory was disproved by ChatGPT using just four short prompts totaling fewer than 60 words, underscoring AI's accelerating ability to crack open mathematical problems
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