AI Models Deployed Nuclear Weapons in 95% of War Game Simulations, Study Finds
King's College study finds GPT-5.2, Claude, and Gemini reached for nuclear weapons in nearly every simulated crisis. No model ever surrendered.
Europe raised $58B in venture funding in 2025, with AI leading for the first time. But US AI startups raised 9x more. Analysis of the widening gap.
Anthropic and xAI refugees raised $480M at a $4.5B valuation for a startup that rejects autonomous AI. Humans& bets the future isn't bots working alone. It's bots helping people work together.
Anthropic researchers mapped how chatbots drift from helpful assistants to mystics and enablers. Their fix cuts harmful responses by 60% without touching normal behavior. The finding exposes a structure that exists before safety training even begins.
While OpenAI and Anthropic chase AGI, a wave of specialized AI tools hit the market solving problems the big labs ignored. Ten standouts from late 2025 reveal where the real value is being built: integrations, workflows, and trust.
OpenAI burned $8 billion in six months. Only 5% of its 800 million users pay. Sam Altman once called advertising "a last resort." On Friday, OpenAI reached for it. The era of free-and-delightful ChatGPT is over.
Attackers already use AI. Novee just handed defenders the same weapon. Three Unit 8200 veterans built an AI pen tester, raised $51.5M in eight months, and signed customers faster than most startups hire engineers. The race is on.
TSMC's Q4 profit jumped 35% to a record $16 billion. CEO C.C. Wei declared "AI is real" and backed it with $56 billion in 2026 capex, the largest semiconductor investment in history. Intel and Samsung are scrambling to catch up. They're not close.
Cerebras pulled its IPO in 2024 when its biggest customer, a UAE conglomerate, made regulators nervous. Fourteen months later, OpenAI signed a $10 billion deal for 750 megawatts of Cerebras systems. The chipmaker just rekindled its IPO filing. Coincidence? The sequence tells a different story.
Apple tried to build its own AI. It failed. Now it's paying Google $1 billion a year to license Gemini while pretending the arrangement is strategic. The company that controlled every layer of the stack is now renting the most important one.
Meta just named a Goldman Sachs banker—not an AI researcher—to lead its $600 billion infrastructure buildout. The appointment signals that AI has become a capital and political problem, not a technical one. Powell McCormick's job is handshakes in Riyadh and zoning hearings in Nevada.
Britain's media regulator has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk's X over AI-generated sexual images of women and children. The platform restricted the feature to paying subscribers—turning abuse into a premium service.
Anthropic announced Claude for Healthcare five days after OpenAI's rival launch. Both entered a market that has already buried Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health. The question is whether AI models can succeed where human engineers kept failing
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