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Anthropic on Thursday reiterated its policy that access to it Claude models and coding tools is not permitted in China, responding to the Chinese government’s recent warning about a security backdoor in Claude Code. The U.S. company said what Beijing’s warning described as a hidden backdoor is ... Read more ›
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Apple is on a quest to shrink powerful AI models to run on iPhones, which could cut down on cloud computing costs and enhance user privacy. But a small startup that emerged from stealth mode earlier this year says it recently got an AI model running on an iPhone bigger than any previous mobile model. The startup, PrismML, said it has shrunk down Qwen 3.6, an open-source large language model... Read more ›
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Renowned university professors and academic researchers keep joining frontier AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic. Remaining faculty say the brain drain is threatening the development of open source AI models in the West.So far this year, at least 22 professors and researchers have taken leave or stepped back from their roles at Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, Virginia and the University of Southern California to work at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and... Read more ›
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As businesses spend more on AI from Anthropic and other new providers, traditional enterprise apps and IT services providers are sometimes fighting for a smaller piece of the pie.In one example, French biopharmaceutical giant Sanofi told me it’s using its own in-house AI agent developed with Claude Code and software from an AI startup, Elementum, to reduce usage of ServiceNow IT management software. Read more ›
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Meta Platforms said it is making its newest AI model available to developers through an application programming interface, looking to sell access to its AI for the first time after pivoting away from open source AI. Meta on Thursday said the new model, Muse Spark 1.1, improves on the previous ... Read more ›
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Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust, the group charged with appointing new board members for the company, named former chair of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke as its fourth member on Thursday. Bernanke’s naming fills a key opening on the trust, which still has one of five seats ... Read more ›
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OpenAI, as part of its effort to attract more business customers, announced a new agent—called ChatGPT Work—which taps into corporate data to automate the creation of spreadsheets and presentations, and can also handle more complex tasks like updating financial forecasts and conducting ... Read more ›
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Cursor is developing a general-purpose AI agent meant to compete with popular tools like Anthropic’s Claude Cowork, two people familiar with the project said, part of a broader push by the company to diversify beyond coding-focused tools. Work on the new agent began after Cursor started leasing compute capacity in April from SpaceX’s AI unit, known as SpaceXAI, the people said, and comes ahead of SpaceX’s planned $60 billion acquisition... Read more ›
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Coinbase said Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal will step down after nearly six years at the firm. The company will name Molly Abraham, vice president of legal, as its general counsel and secretary. “Now is my time for new adventures,” Grewal said in a tweet Thursday. At Coinbase, he fought ... Read more ›
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Lancium, a power infrastructure developer behind OpenAI and Oracle’s data center campus in Texas, is in talks with major tech companies to sell a minority stake, according to people familiar with the matter. Lancium’s portfolio of gigawatt-scale Texas campuses has drawn interest from several tech companies, including Nvidia, some of the people said. Anthropic spent some time with Lancium’s team, though its discussions were exploratory and it didn’t ultimately engage... Read more ›
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