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Pentagon preparing to label Anthropic a supply chain risk over Claude military restrictions, threatening to cut ties after months of failed negotiations.
SpaceX and xAI are competing in a secret $100M Pentagon contest to build autonomous drone swarm software, Bloomberg reports. Musk signed a 2015 letter opposing such weapons.
Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 activates 17 billion of 397 billion parameters per query. The company claims it beats GPT-5.2 on vision benchmarks at 60% lower cost.
Anthropic raised $30 billion at a $380 billion valuation, the second-largest private tech fundraise ever. Claude Code now writes 4% of public GitHub commits.
Anthropic puts $20 million behind a pro-regulation super PAC, setting up a direct clash with OpenAI-backed political groups ahead of the 2026 midterms.
Runway closed a $315 million Series E at a $5.3 billion valuation and plans to pivot from AI video generation to building world models that simulate physical reality.
OpenAI began testing ads in free-tier ChatGPT less than 24 hours after Anthropic aired Super Bowl parody spots mocking the move. Both companies released frontier coding models the same week.
