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The Associated Press reports that Anthropic's Mythos model, running red-team exercises with U.S. intelligence agencies under an Anthropic initiative called Project Glasswing, identified vulnerabilities in highly sensitive classified U.S. government computer systems. Continue Reading →
Anthropic has released Claude Tag in beta. Tag @Claude inside a Slack channel and Claude can join the workstream, follow the thread, take assignments, remember relevant channel context, and (with admin-granted access) pull from connected tools, data sources, codebases, and other approved channels. It is available now to Claude Enterprise and Team customers. Continue Reading →

Getty Cut a New AI Deal

OpenAI signed a multi-year deal with Getty Images, putting Getty's licensed content libraries into ChatGPT and OpenAI search results. Getty Images stock roughly tripled on the news. Continue Reading →
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei spent Wednesday afternoon in a closed-door G7 working lunch in Évian-les-Bains asking President Trump to lead an international AI coalition. Demis Hassabis and Sam Altman were also in the room, along with about a dozen tech executives and the heads of state of the world's wealthiest democracies. OpenAI's global affairs chief Chris Lehane, who also attended Wednesday's meeting, said non-U.S. leaders in the room acknowledged that the U.S. "certainly could play the lead role in working to establish" standards around AI. Continue Reading →
U.K. prime minister Keir Starmer announced Monday that the United Kingdom will ban social media for everyone under sixteen, naming Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X. The British government says it will go further than any other country's ban, with implementation targeted for next spring. Continue Reading →
Thought Police
On Friday at 5:21 p.m. ET, Anthropic says it received a U.S. government directive ordering the company to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for any foreign national, inside or outside the United States, including foreign-national Anthropic employees. Anthropic says the practical effect was that it had to disable both models for all customers to ensure compliance. The era of permissioned intelligence has arrived. Continue Reading →
SpaceX went public this morning at $135 a share, raising $75 billion at a $1.77 trillion valuation. It is the largest IPO in history, more than double Saudi Aramco's $29 billion record from 2019. If the market holds the valuation, it puts Musk on a path to becoming the world’s first trillionaire. Continue Reading →
The Munich Regional Court ruled that Google is directly liable for false statements in its AI Overviews. Two German publishers won a preliminary injunction after the feature linked them to scams, subscription traps, and shady business practices. The court set a penalty of up to €250,000 per violation. Google bears 80% of court costs and says it will appeal. Continue Reading →

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