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Microsoft and rival AI researchers unite to back Anthropic in its escalating legal battle against the Pentagon

In the legal dispute between Anthropic and the US Department of War, Microsoft, 37 employees of OpenAI and Google DeepMind, 22 former high-ranking military officials, and civil rights organizations ...
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Anthropic launches internal think tank to study AI's impact on society and security

Anthropic has launched the "Anthropic Institute," an internal think tank dedicated to studying how powerful AI affects society, the economy, and security. The institute will be led by co-founder Jack ...
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An AI agent hacked McKinsey's internal AI platform in two hours using a decades-old technique

The security firm Codewall used an AI agent to gain full access to McKinsey's AI platform Lilli in two hours through a classic SQL injection. The system prompts controlling Lilli's behavior were ...
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Meta acquires Moltbook, the Reddit-style platform built for AI agents

Meta has acquired Moltbook, a platform designed as a kind of Reddit specifically for AI agents. According to Axios, founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr are joining Meta's Superintelligence Labs (MSL), ...
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Investors bet $1 billion on Yann LeCun's vision for AI beyond LLMs

Yann LeCun, former chief AI scientist at Meta and Turing Award winner, has raised over $1 billion for his new startup Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI Labs) - making it Europe's largest seed ...
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Amazon gets court order blocking Perplexity's AI shopping agent

A federal court in San Francisco has granted Amazon an injunction against AI startup Perplexity, barring it from using its AI browser agent Comet to make purchases on Amazon. Amazon sued Perplexity in ...
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Startup claims first full brain emulation of a fruit fly in a simulated body

Eon Systems says it has connected a complete fruit fly brain emulation to a virtual body, producing multiple behaviors for the first time. The emulation covers over 125,000 neurons and 50 million ...
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Claude Code gets parallel AI agents that review code for bugs and security gaps

Anthropic has released a code review feature for Claude Code that automatically checks changes for errors before they're merged. Multiple AI agents work in parallel to catch bugs, security ...
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OpenAI employees hint at a new omni model

OpenAI appears to be developing a new multimodal model, potentially a successor to GPT-4o. Recent posts from OpenAI employees are fueling the speculation. Atty Eleti from the Voice team wrote that ...
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LLM text data is drying up, but Meta points to unlabeled video as the next massive training frontier

A single AI model can learn text, images, and video simultaneously from scratch without the different modalities interfering with each other, according to a study by Meta FAIR and New York University.
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OpenAI's new GPT-5.4 model powers ChatGPT for Excel with finance-optimized reasoning

OpenAI is launching "ChatGPT for Excel," a beta add-in that lets users create, edit, and analyze spreadsheets through natural language. The tool runs on the new GPT-5.4 model, which OpenAI says is ...
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OpenAI is building a GitHub competitor that could challenge its biggest investor

OpenAI is building its own alternative to GitHub, Microsoft's widely used platform for code management and collaboration, according to The Information. The move was triggered by a string of GitHub ...