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Anthropic to challenge 'supply-chain risk' designation in court

The Department of Defense, known under the Trump administration as the Department of War, has officially designated AI company Anthropic a "supply-chain risk" to national security. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said, "We do not believe this action is legally sound, and we see no choice but to

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Pentagon official details how talks with Anthropic fell apart

Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael described how talks between the Pentagon and Anthropic broke down, culminating in the department formally designating the company and its products as a supply chain risk — the first time that label has been applied to a US firm. Michael said the

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Anthropic’s Claude found 22 Firefox vulnerabilities in two weeks

In a security partnership with Mozilla, Anthropic found 22 separate vulnerabilities in Firefox, 14 of them classified as high-severity. Most of the bugs were fixed in Firefox 148, released this February, while a few fixes will wait for the next release. The team used Claude Opus 4.6 over two

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Report: Human contractors reviewed footage from Meta's Ray-Ban AI glasses

A joint report by Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten says workers at Sama, a Kenya-based subcontractor, provide human-led data annotation for video and audio captured by the Ray-Ban Meta glasses. "We see everything—from living rooms to naked bodies. Meta has that type of content in its databases," said

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GPT-5.4 launches on ChatGPT with gains in efficiency and accuracy

OpenAI released GPT‑5.4 this week, calling it the "most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work." The launch follows GPT‑5.3 Instant and includes GPT‑5.4 Thinking and GPT‑5.4 Pro for users seeking peak performance. OpenAI said GPT‑5.4 is

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How Samsung's AI smart glasses will work with your Galaxy

Samsung has shared the first details of its upcoming AI smart glasses and plans to enter the smart glasses market in 2026. The company says the device will rely on AI and smartphone integration rather than acting as a standalone product. Jay Kim, Samsung's executive vice president of

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Meta contractors in Nairobi had access to private Ray-Ban videos

Many Meta Ray‑Ban users wear the smart glasses everywhere to get notifications and record what they see. Contractors in Nairobi, Kenya, had access to sensitive videos recorded with Meta smart glasses around the world, including footage of people undressing, going to the bathroom, viewing financial information and engaging in

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Meta AI engineer on the résumé strategy that helped him land the role

Saurabh Khandelwal is a 28-year-old machine learning engineer based in Bellevue, Washington. He began his career as a founding ML engineer at a startup, interned at a hedge fund in the summer of 2022, joined Amazon in February 2023, and left Amazon in February 2025 to take a role at

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After Europe, WhatsApp will let rival AI companies offer chatbots in Brazil

Meta is allowing rival AI companies to provide their chatbots on WhatsApp to Brazilian users for a fee, a day after the company confirmed a similar decision for users in Europe. The move follows Brazil’s antitrust regulator CADE ruling against Meta and rejecting its appeal to block an earlier

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Huang: 'Everything is scarce is fantastic for us'

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sat down for a discussion at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference and covered the company’s role in gaming before turning to AI and data‑center work. “I love constraints. And the reason for that is because in a world of constraint, you

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Nvidia's Jensen Huang says $30 billion investment in OpenAI finalized

OpenAI and Nvidia have had a tense relationship as of late, with OpenAI reportedly unhappy with Nvidia's GPUs and Nvidia's earlier plan to invest $100 billion in the company stalled. In an interview at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom conference, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

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CDOs increase data management spending to scale agentic AI

A survey of 600 chief data officers found AI adoption rising: 69% of companies with revenues of $500M+ now use generative AI, up from 48% in 2025, and 47% have adopted agentic AI with a further 31% planning to do so within a year. Data quality and access remain top

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Anthropic to challenge DOD’s supply chain label in court

Dario Amodei said Thursday that Anthropic will challenge the Defense Department’s decision to label the AI firm a supply chain risk in court, calling the designation “legally unsound.” The department made the designation after a weeks-long dispute over how much control the military should have over AI systems; a

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How Sam Altman ended up on the defensive

Sam Altman and OpenAI are in damage control after striking a deal with the Pentagon for access to its AI models when rival Anthropic refused the government's terms. The controversy has revolved around contract negotiations, optics, and a rapid shift in the chatbot wars — issues that an app

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OpenAI's GPT-5.4 matches or beats professionals 83% of the time

OpenAI has released GPT-5.4, billed as “the most capable and efficient frontier model for complex professional work.” Within ChatGPT it appears as GPT 5.4 Thinking, and the model is rolling out across ChatGPT paid tiers, the API and Codex. OpenAI says GPT-5.4 is 18% less likely to

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Marc Benioff says Block's layoffs reflect company issues, not mass AI job cuts

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff pushed back on fears that AI will trigger large-scale white-collar layoffs, saying Block's recent decision to cut 40% of its staff reflects "that company has its own unique issues." He added, "These pronouncements of these mass white collar layoffs: I just

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Microsoft CEO says he treats AI agents as users

Speaking to Morgan Stanley about Microsoft 365's total addressable market, CEO Satya Nadella said he "looks at all agents as users" when considering the company's opportunities. Asked whether the "agentic future" will mean more human users or more autonomous agents, he did

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How 1,000+ customer calls shaped a breakout enterprise AI startup

David Park, a veteran founder and Startup Battlefield alumnus, joined Isabelle Johannessen on Build Mode to describe how he and his team are iterating, fundraising and scaling Narada. The enterprise AI company uses large action models to automate complex, multistep workflows across enterprise systems and counts experienced researchers and operators

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Anthropic reopens Pentagon talks as Trump weighs supply chain risk label

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has reopened negotiations with the US Department of Defense in a last-minute effort to secure continued access to Pentagon contracts as the company faces the possibility of being labeled a supply chain risk by the Trump administration. He has been in talks with Emil Michael, the

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AMD's CPU sales 'far exceeded my expectations', says Dr. Lisa Su

AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su says the company's CPU sales have "far exceeded my expectations in terms of demand." She told investors at the recent Morgan Stanley Conference, "We’re seeing a significant CPU demand, frankly, as a result of the inference demand picking up.

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Gemini Nano Banana 2 sketchnotes: what it got right and wrong

I tried Gemini Nano Banana 2 to generate sketchnotes because of its promise of better text. Starting with a simple prompt to make a sketchnote of the US Bill of Rights, the visuals were often excellent — pastels that resembled highlighters, an appropriate hand-drawn font and fitting illustrations — but the text

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Supreme Court refuses to hear AI art copyright appeal

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal over whether AI-generated art can receive copyright protection, leaving the broader dispute over digital creation unresolved. Stephen Thaler filed for copyright of a piece of moving digital art in 2018, and the U.S. Copyright Office rejected the application in

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The QuitGPT protest against OpenAI is about more than the Pentagon

On Tuesday evening a small but energetic and diverse group of about 40 to 50 protesters gathered outside OpenAI's Mission Bay office as part of the nascent QuitGPT movement, chalking hundreds of slogans on the sidewalk. The backlash intensified after OpenAI signed a contract with the Pentagon on

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US may cap H200 AI chip exports to 75,000 per Chinese firm

The Trump administration is considering limiting Nvidia's H200 chip exports to 75,000 units per Chinese firm, with AMD's MI325 chips included in the same cap. Chinese customers would have to choose how many of each model to take. That 75,000 figure is half of

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Ex-Square Enix exec says Roblox and gen-AI will outpace AAA single-player games

Jacob Navok, former director of business at Square Enix and now CEO of Genvid, argues the future of video game development lies in game-creating platforms like Roblox. Leading a studio-grade AI production platform, he has repeatedly painted a picture of a total merging of game development and generative AI. Navok