Anthropic has lost a major round in its escalating fight with the Pentagon after a US appeals court on Friday allowed the Defense Department to keep the Claude maker on a national security blacklist, extending a remarkable clash over how […] The post Anthropic loses Pentagon blacklist appeal as battle over AI military guardrails escalates…
In July, OpenAI revealed that its AI agents had attacked Hugging Face without permission, sparking widespread concerns about AI safety. Since then, a string of similar incidents involving agents from Meta, Anthropic, Google, and other companies has fueled further fears about rogue AI. As disclosures implicating numerous AI models trickled out over the past few…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved lie detector, according to…
Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock that grows as Anthropic spends more.
Four major AI labs shipped new flagship models inside the same three-week window this September: OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 (and the access-restricted Claude Mythos 5.1), Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash, and DeepSeek’s open-weight V4.1 Flash. That pace is exactly why a growing number of engineering teams stopped hardcoding a single provider into their…
Three separate corners of the AI trade converged into a single trading story on September 24 and 25, 2026. Meta’s Muse AI agent kept pulling chip stocks higher, Akamai disclosed an $11.6 billion, seven-year compute commitment from Anthropic, and Oracle sent a force-majeure notice tied to its Project Jupiter data center campus in New Mexico.…