The US Treasury Department, State Department, and federal housing agency are ending use of Anthropic products; State Department says it will switch to OpenAI
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Anthropic says it'll challenge “any supply chain risk designation in court” and that the designation would only affect contractors' use of Claude on DOD work
Anthropic to challenge supply chain risk designation in courtJack Nicastro /Reason:Anthropic Labeled a Supply Chain Risk, Banned from Federal Government ContractsMatteo Wong /The Atlantic:What Happens...
Dario Amodei says “we are patriotic Americans” and Anthropic fears some AI uses could clash with American values as AI's potential gets “ahead of the law”
Anthropic refuses to lower AI guardrails for the PentagonBrendan Bordelon /Politico:The Pentagon's fight with Anthropic sparks fears in Silicon Valley and the Capitol of a fundamental shift in the bal...
A profile of nonprofit Common Crawl, which has scraped billions of webpages since 2013, including paywalled ones, to build an archive used by OpenAI and others
Editor's note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic's ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. X: @kait_tiffany . Bluesky: @katienotopoulos , @damonberes.com , @justinhendrix ,...
OpenAI launches a research preview of four preset personalities that ChatGPT users can use to better tailor their interactions: Cynic, Robot, Listener, and Nerd
ChatGPT 5 was released today. … I had a chat with it. Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central : Did Sam Altman Oversell GPT-5? OpenAI Faces Backlash for Ruining ChatGPT, Turning It Into a “Corporate Beige Zomb...
Analyst: China summoning Nvidia over alleged H20 security risks shows it “wants to use the Nvidia case to show China is a buyer, but it won't be a blind buyer”
both countries are racing to build infrastructure Anusuya Lahiri / Benzinga : Nio, Xpeng Lead China's Push To Ditch Nvidia Chips Thomas Wright / The Atlantic : Trump Is Sabotaging His Own AI Plan Mari...
Google adds featured notebooks to NotebookLM from publications, including The Economist and The Atlantic, as well as professors, authors, and select works
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Trump says Elon Musk “went CRAZY” and that canceling his government contracts is “the easiest way to save money”, as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates
Musk has gone to war with Donald Trump. What happens next? Dan Milmo / The Guardian : Elon Musk signals he may back down in public row with Donald Trump Wired : Elon Musk's Feud With President Trump ...
Some parent groups are hosting Alternative Device Fairs, which showcase phones with limited features, social media blocking, and AI age-based content filters
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A look at the ARC-AGI exam designed by French computer scientist François Chollet to show the gulf between AI models' memorized answers and “fluid intelligence”
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