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Signal: The slowdown argument has numbers now: Claude leads a quarter of Anthropic's research, safety gets six percent of the compute, and two vendors won't patch.
Microsoft Called It 'the Largest Theft of Labor in Human History'
Unsealed in the Times case: Microsoft's applied-science director called the scraping potentially the largest theft of labor in human history, Nadella swore paywalled work should be licensed, and Copilot cut clicks to the Times by up to 93% - quoted from the Times' brief, exhibits still sealed.
TheWrap: OpenAI's Nick Turley wrote the products are 'largely substitutive, period' 404 Media: an internal Microsoft document called generative AI a 'doom loop' killing the web
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Huawei Pulls Its Next AI Chip Forward Nine Months Economic Times: Huawei's Eric Xu says Chinese AI isn't strong enough to see frontier risks
C4ADS Maps How Banned AI Chips Reach China
Crusoe Raises $3.9B for Truckable AI Factories
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Claude Now Leads a Quarter of Anthropic's Own R&D
Anthropic says Claude leads 26% of its AI research, roughly 30,000 agents run at once, and 6% of R&D compute goes to safety - numbers it published days after its own chief executive asked the industry to slow down.
Engadget: Claude 'leads' 26% of the R&D and touches over 90% of it Anthropic's own post: three metrics, and outside evaluators embedded in the lab
Mathematicians on OpenAI: 'Predatory Behavior' The Decoder: OpenAI holds the Hodge result back after the Navier-Stokes backlash
EU-Mandated Watermark Weakens AI Refusals
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Google and Microsoft Won't Patch the Agent Flaw Air Security's disclosure: plugin auto-update defeats the SHA pinning enterprises rely on
Claude Code Runs a Team of Itself
The FightLaw, policy and power
Three CEOs Talked Trump Out of an AI Referee
The WSJ says Wiles, Bessent and cyber director Cairncross push for scrutiny while Zuckerberg, Huang and Musk talked Trump out of a FINRA-style AI regulator - the light-touch camp is winning, per unnamed sources.
The Record: House chair Guthrie won't promise an AI safety vote before 2027
Palantir's Karp: Maybe Nationalize the AI Labs
Hinton to Congress: 'Maybe a Year' Left
Bessent Puts AI 'Shared Risks' on China Agenda Modern Diplomacy: US and Chinese experts urge a military-AI incident hotline
EU Would Bar Chatbots From Bonding With Kids
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
28 Dating Apps, and the Women Were Claude
Claude Helps Pick Iran Targets, 60% Accurate CBS: an Iran-linked actor used Claude to locate US naval forces
34 of 37 Countries: AI Will Cost Jobs The Hill: 64% call AI development bad, and 69% use it anyway
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
King Warns of 'Existential Dangers.' Huang Shrugs.
Charles told OpenAI, Anthropic and Nvidia executives at Dumfries House that AI could acquire 'darker capacities - perhaps even to take life'; Huang answered outside that you regulate products, not technology, and a monarch cannot legislate either way.
Politico Europe: Huang says AI is a technology, so regulate the products instead CNN: China is represented too, the Palace says, without naming anyone
Reporter Put AI Songs on a Real Band's Spotify
Ghost Note Rumor: Anthropic Engineers Worship Claude
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