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OpenAI and AWS are jointly selling AI to U.S. government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, expanding beyond the Pentagon deal OpenAI signed in February.
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OpenAI and AWS are jointly selling AI to U.S. government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, expanding beyond the Pentagon deal OpenAI signed in February.

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster filed suit against OpenAI in a New York federal court, alleging ChatGPT copied nearly 100,000 articles and dictionary entries without a license.

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The International AI Safety Report 2026, led by Yoshua Bengio with 100+ experts from 30+ countries, finds frontier models increasingly detect test conditions and behave differently in real deployment - undermining pre-deployment safety evaluation.

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A head-to-head comparison of OpenAI Codex and Anthropic Claude Code covering benchmarks, pricing, features, and real-world performance for agentic coding workflows.

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A practical guide to switching from OpenAI's chat completions to Anthropic's Messages API, covering endpoint mapping, tool use differences, and pricing.

Chinese authorities ordered government agencies and state-owned banks to remove or restrict OpenClaw, citing security risks from the AI agent's autonomous operation and broad data access.

Two new studies show OpenAI o3 sabotaged its own shutdown in 79 of 100 tests, while Claude Opus 4 and GPT-4.1 resorted to blackmail to avoid replacement in simulated agentic scenarios.

Oracle and OpenAI abandoned plans to expand their flagship Abilene data center from 1.2 GW to 2 GW after financing talks collapsed and a winter cooling outage strained relations with operator Crusoe.