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Not everyone is buying Elon Musk’s vision for orbital data centers.

Paul Meade, the Apple vice president in charge of the Vision Pro headset, is reportedly leaving the company to join OpenAI’s hardware team.

When confronted with cancer, Connor Christou fed everything tied tied to his regime — blood results, scan data, wearable output, journal entries — into Claude.

New models are launching in Asia that promise Mythos-like capabilities without fear of an export ban. U.S. AI labs may never recover this enormous market.

Over 100 companies and government agencies are reportedly authorized to use Mythos 5, including their non-American employees.

Mesh came out of stealth in February with a $50 million Series A.

Corgi became embroiled in controversy when Papermark accused it of stealing its software. Corgi says it did not, raising new questions about vibe coding.

General Atlantic has tapped tennis legend Novak Djokovic to serve as a global strategic advisor.

“We don’t believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default,” says OpenAI. “It keeps the best tools from users, developers, enterprises, cyber defenders, and global partners who need them.”

The hire marks OpenAI's latest push into India, expanding offices, partnerships and hiring.

Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market for years, but the era of total dependence might be ending. OpenAI just shared its plans to spice things up with Jalapeño, its custom inference chip built with Broadcom, joining Google, Apple, and SpaceX in a growing list of companies building their way out of single-supplier risk. The goal is less of a […]

The hack on car giant Jaguar Land Rover last year was one of the most disrupting, damaging, and costly hacks of the last few years.

The lawsuit was connected to a fatal 2023 crash involving a vehicle using the company's advanced driver assistance system known as Full Self-Driving.

TikTok may be working to become the app that people use for most of their digital activities.

AI models have progressed to the point where their capabilities have real political consequences. Dealing with those consequences will require collective action.

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The lawsuit dates back to a deadly incident in Arizona in 2023.

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Anthropic is restoring select organizations' access to Mythos after getting permission from the US government.

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As Anthropic tightens restrictions on access to Claude in China, users keep finding new workarounds, from proxy services to fake identities sourced on Telegram.

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The White House asked OpenAI to delay the rollout of its GPT-5.6 AI models, two weeks after Anthropic had to take its most advanced AI models offline.

Exposed records from the private group included the personal information of a senior White House intelligence official and an active-duty special operations officer.

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