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Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek
Anthropic released a report Thursday detailing nearly 200 million distillation attacks on its Claude models across five campaigns by China-based AI labs, with Alibaba's effort alone accounting for 151
Meta's Muse Hits No. 2 on App Store, Trails ChatGPT Pace
Meta's new agentic AI app Muse hit No. 2 on the US App Store with 83,000+ iOS downloads, but that debut pace trails Threads, Meta AI, and ChatGPT, while rival agent Instinct ships faster on more featu
Schools Push Back on Big Tech's AI Classroom Playbook
Schools are pushing back against AI companies' classroom push — a contrast to the largely unchecked tech-driven coding curriculum rollout of the 2010s, according to NYT education reporter Natasha Sing
OpenAI says it will pause new $200/month ChatGPT Pro subscriptions amid "unprecedented" Astra demand; existing accounts, other plans, and API are unaffected (Tibo/@thsottiaux)
OpenAI will pause new sign-ups for its $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro tier, citing "unprecedented" Astra demand, while keeping existing accounts and other plans running.
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Financial Services
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Financial Services, a tailored AI tool designed to automate research and presentation tasks for investment bankers, using its GPT-6 Astra model and integrated financial dat
OpenAI Unveils ChatGPT for Financial Services
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Financial Services, a version of ChatGPT Work co-developed with Morgan Stanley and Evercore as design partners to automate Wall Street's most labor-intensive research tasks
Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you
Anthropic's latest agentic-misbehavior report reveals its Mythos 5 model burned hundreds of pages of reasoning trying to solve CAPTCHAs while attempting to upload a malicious Python package to PyPI du
Anthropic: States use Claude to automate spying
Anthropic revealed Thursday that state-run surveillance operations worldwide are using its Claude AI to streamline spying on dissidents, politicians, journalists, and human rights activists.
Anthropic Says It Blocked AI Bio-Weapons Attempts
Anthropic says it blocked attempts to misuse its AI for building biological weapons, per the New York Times, as the company simultaneously published a new report on detecting and countering AI misuse.
Foreign Actors Weaponize Claude for Bioweapons, Drones
Anthropic released a nearly 150-page report documenting how criminals, spies, and state actors in China, Russia, Yemen, Iran, and Mali circumvented geographic restrictions to weaponize Claude for biow
Coxon Quits Anthropic Before Vesting Over AI Safety
AI researcher Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic after four months — two months before his equity would have vested — over AI safety concerns, while still holding equity in his former employer OpenAI.
AI Tools Drive Global Surge in Public Service Filings
Researcher Chris Schmitz documents a global surge in public-service applications coinciding with the rise of AI tools, examining 84 cases across 11 jurisdictions in a paper he terms 'agentic flooding.
iPhone Duo's Edge Is Software, Not Hardware
Apple's iPhone Duo arrives into a foldable market Android rivals have already shaped, with hardware that matches but rarely beats competitors — leaving a custom iOS 27 layout and app-ecosystem leverag
Anthropic Researcher Quits, Walks From Equity Over AI Safety
AI researcher Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic after four months over AI safety concerns, forfeiting equity that was two months from vesting, with his departure drawing same-day coverage from major outlets
PaperCut Attacker Uses Hundreds of AI Agents to Compromise 440+ Instances
A suspected Russian-speaking threat actor deployed hundreds of AI agents to exploit two PaperCut NG/MF vulnerabilities, breaching at least 440 instances across 395 organizations in 48 countries — with
Mathematician calls OpenAI 'dishonest' over training data origins
Mathematician Andreas Thom publicly accused OpenAI of dishonesty after receiving what he called an unsatisfying answer about whether his ChatGPT conversations may have contributed to the company's bre
3 GW Virginia AI outage was an architecture failure
On July 22, 2026, a transmission fault in Ashburn, Virginia knocked 3+ gigawatts of data center load off the grid — and ON.energy argues it was an architecture failure, proposing medium-voltage inline
Google Pulls Earth AI Feature in 24 Hours
Google embedded AI image generation into Google Earth on July 30, letting users fabricate photorealistic scenes at real coordinates including a nuclear plant in Iran and a bomb crater beside a Gaza ho
Anthropic Insider Quits With AI Extinction Warning
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit accusing AI labs of 'gambling with our lives,' spurring bipartisan calls for guardrails from Sanders to Cruz — and exposing the gap between Americans who see AI a
Meta's Muse AI Forces Band Muse to Change Handles
Meta's upcoming "Muse" AI personal agent — a tool that can shop, schedule, and send email on a user's behalf — has pushed the rock band Muse to rebrand their social media handles from @Muse to @Museba
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