
Anthropic Sues Pentagon Over AI Safety Red Lines
Anthropic filed two federal lawsuits after the Pentagon labeled it a national security supply chain risk for refusing to drop AI guardrails on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
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Anthropic filed two federal lawsuits after the Pentagon labeled it a national security supply chain risk for refusing to drop AI guardrails on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.

OpenAI's CoT-Control benchmark shows frontier reasoning models score 0.1-15.4% at steering their own chain of thought - a result the company frames as good news for AI oversight.

Nscale raises the largest Series C in European history, valuing the company at $14.6 billion and funding a 100,000-GPU AI gigafactory in Norway with OpenAI as anchor customer.

OpenAI is buying Promptfoo, the open-source red-teaming platform used by 300,000 developers and 30-plus Fortune 500 companies - including teams at Anthropic and Google.

OpenAI is pulling Instant Checkout from ChatGPT after months of near-zero purchase conversions, routing buyers to third-party apps instead.

Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of robotics, resigns over the company's Pentagon AI contract, warning that mass surveillance and autonomous weapons 'deserved more deliberation than they got.'

Nearly 900 employees across Google and OpenAI sign an open letter titled We Will Not Be Divided, calling on leadership to reject Pentagon demands for unfettered AI access.

Anthropic's Claude is now adding over one million users per day with 11.3 million daily active users - a 183% increase since January as the Pentagon backlash against OpenAI shows no sign of fading.

Oracle is cutting up to 30,000 jobs to free $8-10 billion in cash flow for AI data centers, the largest AI-driven corporate restructuring announced to date.

OpenAI launches Codex Security in research preview, scanning 1.2M commits and finding 11,353 critical and high-severity vulnerabilities. The AI vulnerability arms race is officially on.

GPT-5.4 brings native computer use, a 1M token context window, and serious coding muscle to OpenAI's mainline model - but at a premium price.

OpenAI is developing an internal code repository to replace GitHub, putting the company on a collision course with its biggest backer.