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Government shuts down Anthropic’s flagship AI after safety warning dispute
The government didn’t just slap a wrist. It pulled the plug , completely, globally, at 5:21 on a Friday. Anthropic’s most advanced AI models are gone, yanked from every user, every country, every context.
Europe's AI startup Mistral, founded 2023, eyes EUR 3 bn raise at EUR 20 bn valuation
Paris-based Mistral is 750 days old. It wants to be worth $20 billion. Founded just last year, the startup is already chasing another 3 billion euros, reports say. That haul would bring its total funding to an astonishing $7 billion.
Moonshot AI launches Kimi Work: desktop agent on K2.6 with 300‑sub‑agent swarm
The age of the agent has just been relocated. It now lives on your desktop. Moonshot AI’s Kimi Work isn’t another cloud-hosted assistant, it’s a local powerhouse running on a reported K2.6 model, commanding a 300-sub-agent swarm.
Grok still hosts sexualized deepfakes of famous women; Musk added undress button
Months after promising to crack down, Elon Musk's Grok chatbot is still generating sexualized deepfakes of women without their consent. That’s according to new reporting from WIRED.
xAI sues after firing who warned of Grok safety; he led Scale AI safety work
Safety engineers build the guardrails everyone agrees are vital, right up until they slow the car down. Benjamin Kim built those guardrails at Scale AI, training systems to spot harmful content.
Anthropic launches Fable 5, blocks cybersecurity, biology, chemistry queries
Anthropic released its new Fable 5 model today, the same day its Mythos Preview period ended. The company immediately blocked the model from answering queries about cybersecurity exploits, biology, and chemistry.
Datadog engineers start AI coding firm Niteshift, backed by Hoffman, Pomel
Handing your proprietary code to OpenAI carries a unique risk. It's not just about a bug. It's about feeding your company's core asset directly to a lab that has, repeatedly, released tools that obliterate its own clients.
Moonshot AI seeks USD 30 billion valuation, plans USD 1‑2 billion fundraise
Moonshot AI is courting investors with a staggering $30 billion valuation. That figure, six times last year's worth, anchors its audacious pitch. To fuel this fight, the Beijing lab now seeks $1 to $2 billion in fresh capital.
Perplexity's Search as Code lets AI build pipelines, improving performance
Every AI company selling search is secretly in the infrastructure business. They just don't want to admit it. Perplexity has decided to skip the charade. Its new Search as Code feature cuts out the middleman entirely.
SpaceX inks USD 920 M/month deal with Google for 110,000 Nvidia AI chips
SpaceX is renting out its computers for a billion dollars a month. The client is Google, which happens to own a chunk of SpaceX and desperately needs Nvidia chips right now. The rocket firm's blockbuster IPO is next week. So is the deal.
S&P 500 refuses entry for SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic, analysts surprised
The S&P 500 just drew a line in the sand. And it’s not the one Elon Musk wanted. On June 4, S&P Dow Jones Indices refused to bend its own rules for SpaceX, a company that’s not yet profitable, not yet stable, but undeniably dazzling.
Lovable signs multiyear Google Cloud deal, 5× usage boost, adds Claude, Gemini
One hundred and forty-six people. Four hundred million dollars in annualized revenue. These are the numbers that make Lovable, a European startup, impossible for the big clouds to ignore. Now it has picked a side.
Jeff Bezos funds hunt for brain's core algorithm; baby learns in 200K utterances
Jeff Bezos is financing an effort to identify a single, fundamental learning rule the brain uses. The project, led by computational neurosologist Sean Bittner, aims to explain how an infant can learn language from approximately 200,000 spoken words.
Microsoft and OpenAI split; both prepare for legal battle over AI training
The partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI was never just a love story. It was a transaction, cloaked in the language of shared ambition. Now the cloak has been torn away.
Microsoft unveils MXC OS-level sandbox for AI agents, OpenAI, Nvidia join
Microsoft just dropped MXC, a new AI agent sandbox baked directly into Windows. Think of it as a security cage, but built at the operating system level itself. That architectural choice means a few concrete things.
Microsoft unveils Project Solara, an Android OS built for future agents
Microsoft's Project Solara has a simple, radical goal for your phone: stop using the screen. The tech giant is rebuilding Android not for apps, but for AI agents.
Microsoft IQ and Rayfin aim to curb data silos from AI agents
Microsoft's AI agents are already creating a mess. They build things, but they leave their tools and materials all over the place. Each new app they generate tends to spin up its own isolated data store.
Perplexity AI debuts hybrid local‑cloud inference system at Computex 2026
Why does this matter? Perplexity AI has been nudging its AI workflow from pure cloud toward the desktop for months, and the latest demo at Computex 2026 puts the shift front‑and‑center.
OpenAI‑backed Opal unveils AI audio gadget, will release open schematics later
Hardware giants lock their schematics away. You're meant to toss the old model and buy the next one. But Opal, a startup backed by OpenAI, just unveiled an AI audio gadget with a radical twist.
Barad: AI agents could overhaul health care, easing 90% of resource strain
Telehealth and remote monitoring systems have largely layered new tasks on top of old ones, says Dr. Ashis Barad.
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