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Eridu emerges from stealth with $200M Series A

Eridu, an AI networking startup led by co-founder and CEO Drew Perkins, has emerged from stealth with an oversubscribed $200 million Series A round. The financing was led by Socratic Partners, John Doerr, Matter Venture Partners and others, bringing Eridu’s total raised to $230 million. Perkins has been working

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Anthropic sues Defense Department over supply-chain risk designation

Anthropic filed two complaints against the Department of Defense in California and Washington, D.C., after the agency labeled the company a supply-chain risk late last week. The filings follow a weeks-long dispute over whether the military should have unrestricted access to Anthropic’s AI systems; the company said it

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Tron joins AAIF governing board to support agentic AI adoption

Tron’s decentralized autonomous organization announced the network has joined the Agentic AI Foundation and will serve on its governing board. The DAO said agentic AI will create significant future demand and that collaboration and interoperability are needed to build systems able to handle “continuous, high-volume, low-value transactions efficiently at

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Accel partner says vibe-coding market can support Cursor and Claude Code

Miles Clements, a partner at Accel, argued that the expanding vibe coding market can support multiple companies and defended Cursor amid comparisons to Anthropic's Claude Code. After Anthropic released its latest model, Opus 4.6, founders and developers posted on X that they were ditching Cursor for Claude

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Anthropic says it could face $5 billion loss in dispute with Pentagon

Anthropic warned in a court filing that it could lose up to $5 billion in sales as a result of its escalating dispute with the Pentagon. More than 30 researchers from OpenAI and Google, including Jeff Dean of Google DeepMind, filed a joint amicus brief in support of Anthropic, signing

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Inside an AI class for retirees who don't want to be left behind

A room of about 15 retirees in their 60s and 70s gathered in Singapore for a four-hour community class on AI run by Asif Saleem. They hunched over laptops, grilled the instructor with questions, scribbled notes, and reacted out loud as they tested models and tools. Susanna Lau, 70, laughed

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GPT-5.4 Thinking offers stronger reasoning but struggles with images

OpenAI's GPT-5.4 Thinking is presented as a more cognitively prepared model, and a reviewer tested it via the $20-per-month ChatGPT Plus plan to see how it handles deeper challenges. In text-based tasks the model delivers deeper analysis and generally strong reasoning; most responses were thoughtful and free

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Anthropic launches Claude Code Review to inspect pull requests with AI agents

Anthropic has introduced a Code Review beta built into Claude Code for Teams and Enterprise plan users. The tool spawns teams of AI agents to analyze completed blocks of code in pull requests, surfacing bugs and other potentially problematic issues before human reviewers must intervene. In internal use, the system

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Meta insists pirating books to train AI was fair use

Meta and others used pirated versions of copyrighted books to train AI models and now face a class-action brought by authors including Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Christopher Golden. A Californian court concluded last year that using pirated books to train the Llama LLM qualified as fair use, but Meta

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Anthropic files suit over the Pentagon's effective blacklisting

Anthropic has filed suit to block the Pentagon's effective blacklisting of the company and its products. On Monday, Anthropic sued the Department of Defense, the Executive Office of the President, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and several other federal agencies. Last Thursday, the Pentagon said it had formally notified

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OpenAI robotics lead resigns over surveillance and lethal-autonomy concerns

Caitlin Kalinowski has resigned from OpenAI's robotics division and posted a warning on her X account. She wrote, "This wasn’t an easy call. AI has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines

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AI speeds cloud attacks; third-party software is the weak link

Google Cloud Security's report found AI is helping attackers exploit vulnerabilities faster than before, collapsing "the window between vulnerability disclosure and mass exploitation" from weeks to days. It notes that most cloud attacks now target weak third-party software and that organizations should be turning to more

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Take AI’s Job in a New Browser Game

Mihir Maroju’s your ai slop bores me is a browser game that asks players to take AI’s job. Connected to thousands of users seeking art, answers and inspiration, you must “larp as AI” and deliver written or drawn replies with only 60 seconds on the clock. Each answer

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AI Use in Workplaces Causing ‘Brain Fry’

Researchers from Boston Consulting Group and the University of California found that excessive use and oversight of artificial intelligence in the workplace is producing what they call “AI brain fry.” A study of nearly 1,500 full-time US workers found 14% reported mental fatigue from interacting with or overseeing AI

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I'm 78 and vibe coding. Retirement doesn't mean I'm behind on AI

Lewis Dickson, 78, is semi-retired and says technology is fun rather than work. He began his career at IBM in the late 1970s and did technology consulting for a Fortune 500 company in Atlanta from 2015 to 2024, teaching many engineers and customers along the way. When ChatGPT arrived he

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Mastering financial AI agents could be the key to surviving AI layoffs

AI is moving through finance fast, evolving from ChatGPT-style queries into agents that can reason, execute and coordinate across markets with minimal human intervention. The pace of change is measured in days, not weeks, and warnings about AI-fueled layoffs have already surfaced as firms and research briefs trigger market reactions.

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My 8-step plan for Dario Amodei to get off the Pentagon's naughty list

On Thursday, the Pentagon designated Anthropic a supply chain risk, effectively blacklisting the AI startup from doing business with the US government. In a recent internal memo obtained by The Information, CEO Dario Amodei said the Trump administration opposes the company because it hasn't donated to the president

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Humanoid robots meant to fill manufacturing labor gaps

Agility Robotics is deploying its bipedal robot Digit at facilities including Amazon, Schaeffler Group, GXO and Toyota's plant in Canada. The company says Digit will take on highly repetitive tasks; at Toyota's Ontario plant three Digit bots will move totes — plastic containers — from one spot to

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One platform gives lifetime access to ChatGPT, Gemini, Anthropic for $70

1min.AI is offering a lifetime subscription for $69.97 (reg. $540), a savings of $470.03. The plan provides lifetime access to models including GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Mistral and Command, letting you switch models without hopping between services. The platform includes writing tools to generate and edit blog

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Backlash grows after OpenAI's Pentagon deal

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a deal with the Pentagon on February 28 that gave the department access to its AI models. The agreement followed Anthropic rejecting a similar contract; Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said, "We cannot in good conscience accede to their request." The prospect of the

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Ben Affleck's AI move could put him at odds with Hollywood workers

Netflix announced it had acquired InterPositive, a company Oscar-winner Ben Affleck quietly founded a few years ago. The purchase, revealed during ongoing talks about enhanced AI protections for actors, drew added attention because InterPositive is described as an AI-powered filmmaking technology. Little is known about the company’s tools beyond

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OpenAI robotics head Caitlin Kalinowski quits after Pentagon deal

Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of robotics, said she resigned after the company struck a deal with the Pentagon. Kalinowski, a hardware executive who joined OpenAI from Meta in 2024, led the company's robotics division. In a post on X she criticized the agreement: "AI has

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OpenAI delays ChatGPT’s ‘adult mode’ again

OpenAI has delayed the launch of "adult mode," a ChatGPT feature that will give verified adult users access to erotica and other adult content. CEO Sam Altman first announced the feature in October, writing, "In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of

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Anthropic’s Pentagon deal is a cautionary tale for startups chasing federal contracts

The Pentagon has designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk after the two sides failed to agree on how much control the military should have over the company’s AI models, including their use in autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance. Anthropic’s $200 million contract collapsed, and the Department of Defense

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Anthropic maps the jobs most exposed to AI disruption

Anthropic economists have developed a measure called "observed exposure" to track how AI could reshape the workforce. The metric compares tasks large language models are theoretically capable of with the tasks people actually use Claude for at work. Using this approach, they identify the five most exposed occupations