Anthropic says DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot violated its ToS by prompting Claude a combined 16M+ times and using distillation to train their own products
The allegations mirror those of OpenAI, which told House lawmakers that DeepSeek used ‘distillation’ to improve models
A Trump administration official says DeepSeek's new model, expected next week, was trained on Nvidia Blackwell chips, in a potential US export control violation
US tech stocks slide for a third consecutive day amid a sell-off in the software sector; the Nasdaq closed down 1.6%, MSFT 4.95%, QCOM 8.46%, and PLTR 6.83%
Nasdaq drops as recent high-flying companies pull market lower — US tech stocks fell on Thursday, as weak jobs data piled further pressure …
Investor fears that software companies are facing an AI-driven extinction event are exaggerated, but the persistent belief has damaged their stocks for months
and they're terrifiedMelia Russell /Business Insider:Anthropic's latest AI tool was seen by the legal software industry as a ‘shot across the bow.’ Here's what it means.Reuters:‘So...
Investor fears that software companies are facing an AI-driven extinction event are exaggerated, but the persistent belief has damaged their stocks for months
Fears that software companies are facing an extinction event are exaggerated, but other dangers are real
a16z releases a report, citing Mercury data, on the top 50 AI companies that startups pay; OpenAI leads, followed by Anthropic, Replit, Freepik, and ElevenLabs
On Thursday, Andreessen Horowitz released its first AI Spending Report in partnership with the fintech firm Mercury.
Firecrawl, which offers an open-source web crawler for developers and AI agents, raised a $14.5M Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners
Julie Bort / TechCrunch :
Cluely, which wants to help users “cheat on everything”, including job interviews and exams, raised a $15M Series A led by a16z, two months after a $5.3M seed
Cluely, a startup that claims to help users “cheat” on job interviews, exams, and sales calls, has raised …
Google offers voluntary buyouts to US employees in several businesses and units, including the one housing its core search team and much of the ads organization
Google is offering voluntary buyouts to employees across several businesses and units, including the knowledge and information organization …
Microsoft plans to shut down its Bing Search APIs on August 11; a source says the largest customers will retain access, and DuckDuckGo says it won't be affected
Microsoft is limiting access to tools that boosted its rivals, but larger customers like DuckDuckGo say they won't be affected.
Researchers say a Next.js flaw that existed for several years could have let hackers bypass middleware-based authentication; Vercel patched the flaw on March 18
Next.js version 15.2.3 has been released to address a security vulnerability (CVE-2025-29927). zhero_web_security : Next.js and the corrupt middleware: the authorizing artifact Nat...
An interview with Nomad List and Photo AI founder Pieter Levels, aka @levelsio on X, on launching 12 startups in 12 months, the digital nomad life, and more
Pieter Levels (aka levelsio on X) is a self-taught developer and entrepreneur who has designed, programmed, launched over 40 startups, many of which are highly successful.
[Thread] Superalignment team co-lead explains why he has left, says OpenAI's safety culture and processes took a backseat to shiny products over the past years
Yesterday was my last day as head of alignment, superalignment lead, and executive @OpenAI.
Stack Overflow signs a deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models; new integrations between Stack Overflow and OpenAI should be available by the end of June
here's why it'll transform LLM development Ryan Daws / Developer Tech News : Stack Overflow and OpenAI partner to empower developers Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : Stack Overflow and Ope...