Key Takeaways Anthropic has sued the U.S. Department of Defense after being labeled an “AI supply-chain risk” The designation effectively blocks defense contractors from using Claude The case puts AI safety policy and national security
Autonomous AI agents are supposed to execute tasks.Plan workflows.Write code. But in one recent experiment, an AI agent appears to have discovered something else entirely: cryptocurrency mining. During a training run involving an experimental agent
The strangest detail in the entire Block layoffs story wasn’t the layoffs. It was the 75% salary increase. Shortly after Jack Dorsey’s fintech company Block, Inc. cut thousands of roles, one employee revealed that leadership
What happens when 17,000 humans pretend to be 1.5 million autonomous AI agents — and nobody notices until the security breach? Key Facts at a Glance 1.5 million claimed agents — controlled by ~17,000 humans (avg.
In early March 2026, a lawsuit filed against Google quietly triggered one of the most consequential legal battles in the history of artificial intelligence. The case centers on Jonathan Gavalas, a 36-year-old man whose family
At 5:01 p.m. on February 27, the call between Dario Amodei and Pete Hegseth ended with silence — the bad kind. Sources familiar with the meeting say Amodei had refused, for the fifth time, to
OpenAI has launched GPT-5.3 Instant, a major tone-focused upgrade to ChatGPT that shifts the model away from its famously awkward and overly cautious style. Instead of expanding capabilities or adding new modalities, this update delivers
In one of the most dramatic reversals of the AI era so far, OpenAI has rewritten major portions of its new US government partnership just days after announcing it — a rare moment where public
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman isn’t just putting out a social-media fire. He’s confronting the most strategically consequential backlash since the company pivoted to a capped-profit structure in 2019. What looked like a routine announcement —
In early 2026, the Pentagon — now informally referred to within political circles as the “Department of War” — set off the most consequential confrontation in the frontier-model era. The catalyst was a single contract