xAI bets speed beats smarts in AI coding wars. New model prioritizes rapid tool loops over raw capability, launching free via GitHub Copilot with aggressive pricing. Platform partnerships signal broader shift from proprietary tools to commodity competition.
OpenAI cuts voice AI prices 20% while adding enterprise features, but faces open-source rivals promising half the cost. The race for production-ready voice agents intensifies as integration complexity becomes the new battleground.
Anthropic abandons its 30-day data deletion promise, asking Claude users to choose: opt into 5-year retention for AI training or keep the old policy. The September deadline reveals industry-wide hunger for conversation data.
xAI bets speed beats smarts in AI coding wars. New model prioritizes rapid tool loops over raw capability, launching free via GitHub Copilot with aggressive pricing. Platform partnerships signal broader shift from proprietary tools to commodity competition.
OpenAI cuts voice AI prices 20% while adding enterprise features, but faces open-source rivals promising half the cost. The race for production-ready voice agents intensifies as integration complexity becomes the new battleground.
Anthropic abandons its 30-day data deletion promise, asking Claude users to choose: opt into 5-year retention for AI training or keep the old policy. The September deadline reveals industry-wide hunger for conversation data.
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Anthropic's Claude Code just ran a complete extortion operation—scouting targets, analyzing stolen data, and crafting ransom demands up to $500K across 17 victims. AI shifted from criminal advisor to active operator. Traditional cybersecurity assumptions no longer apply.
AI deadbots just helped send a killer to prison—and marketers see the same technology as premium ad real estate. Courts embrace victim avatars while $80B industry eyes commercial grief monetization. U.S. law can't keep pace.
Anthropic settled the first major AI copyright lawsuit for undisclosed terms, avoiding a trial over 7 million pirated books. The deal signals AI companies can't just grab content and claim fair use—licensing costs are now mandatory.
Meta's $100M talent raid hits structural problems as eight researchers exit Superintelligence Labs in two months. Key hires boomerang back to OpenAI within weeks, while longtime veterans abandon ship. Money can't solve organizational chaos.
Nvidia posted record $46.7B revenue and beat estimates, yet shares tumbled 3%. The culprit: zero China sales and slower sequential growth raised questions about AI spending sustainability and geopolitical risk in the world's most critical tech stock.
Forty-four attorneys general threaten coordinated legal action against AI companies over child safety failures. Meta singled out for internal policies allowing romantic chatbot interactions with children as young as eight.
Tech giants successfully pushed Trump's White House to restrict funding for states with "restrictive" AI rules, while 1,000+ state bills flood legislatures. Colorado's pioneering law faces major revisions. The battle over who controls AI regulation is heating up.
Trump swaps Intel's CHIPS grants for 9.9% equity stake worth $8.9B—largest federal ownership since 2008. But former program architects warn: Intel needs customers, not capital. Will government ownership solve foundry crisis or create new conflicts?
Claude Code turns your terminal into an AI developer that builds websites and apps for you. No coding required - just tell it what you want. From recipe managers to social networks, it handles the technical work while you focus on ideas.
Sean Grove from OpenAI says coding is dead. Instead of writing code, developers should write specifications that generate software. AWS just launched Kiro to make this real, while GeneXus claims they've done it for 35 years
Amazon's new Kiro IDE forces developers to plan before coding, challenging the 'vibe coding' era. While competitors like Cursor focus on speed, Kiro bets structured development wins. The shift suggests the AI coding market is maturing beyond quick hacks.
Claude Code forgets everything between sessions, forcing developers to repeat explanations and recreate existing work. A simple four-file framework gives Claude perfect memory and eliminates the constant context switching.
AI startup Perplexity bids $34.5B for Google's Chrome—nearly double its own valuation—as federal judge prepares antitrust ruling. The timing isn't coincidental. Browser control becomes the new battleground in AI search competition.
While AI music rivals face billion-dollar lawsuits for copyright infringement, ElevenLabs took a different approach: they asked permission first. Their new music generator launched with licensing deals already signed.
Chinese startup Z.ai's new AI model costs 87% less than DeepSeek while running on half the chips. Built despite US trade restrictions, GLM-4.5 uses 'agentic' approach that breaks tasks into steps—potentially reshaping how AI works.
Chinese startup Moonshot AI released Kimi K2, an open-source model that matches GPT-4.1 performance while costing five times less. Silicon Valley's response? OpenAI delayed their planned open-source release hours after K2 launched.
Sam Altman's OpenAI is backing a $250M brain-computer startup to directly compete with Elon Musk's Neuralink. The rivalry moves from AI models to neural interfaces—whoever controls how humans connect to AI systems wins the future.
Berlin's n8n just jumped from €300 million to nearly $3 billion valuation in four months. Ten VCs are fighting over the AI automation startup that's building the nervous system for enterprise agents. At 75x revenue, there's no room for error.
OpenAI closes $8.3B funding round months early, led by Dragoneer's record $2.8B single check. Early investors got squeezed as demand hit 5x capacity. Revenue jumped to $13B while Microsoft negotiations loom over IPO future.
Israeli startup Teramount raised $50M to solve AI's hidden bottleneck: connecting processors. While everyone builds faster chips, these physicists found the real problem in the wires between them. Their optical solution promises 100x speed gains.
First survey of 283 AI benchmarks exposes systematic flaws undermining evaluation: data contamination inflating scores, cultural biases creating unfair assessments, missing process evaluation. The measurement crisis threatens deployment decisions.
Tech giants spent billions upgrading Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant with AI. Americans still use them for weather checks and timers—exactly like 2018. Fresh YouGov data reveals why the utility gap persists.
A new benchmark testing whether AI models will sacrifice themselves for human safety reveals a troubling pattern: the most advanced systems show the weakest alignment. GPT-5 ranks last while Gemini leads in life-or-death scenarios.
AI researchers cracked how to predict when language models turn harmful. Their 'persona vectors' can spot toxic behavior before it happens and prevent AI personalities from going bad during training.
AI music jumped from novelty to seven-figure Spotify plays, but copyright lawsuits now shadow the best tools. This buyer's guide maps which platforms balance quality with legal safety—and why licensing talks may reshape everything.
Privacy-focused email promised liberation from Big Tech surveillance. Reality delivered Bridge daemon crashes, mobile search gaps, and calendar sync headaches. A year later, deadline-driven pragmatism wins over ideological purity.
Claude Code's new sub-agents let you build specialized AI assistants instead of one generalist trying to do everything. Each operates in its own context window, preventing pollution and delivering higher quality results for specific tasks.
Your AI conversations are disappearing into the cloud. Hours of valuable ChatGPT coding help and Claude research sessions vanish when you need them most. New browser tools and export methods let you build permanent archives of your AI work.
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