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Anthropic Acquires Biotech Startup Coefficient Bio in $400M Deal: Anthropic makes its largest-ever acquisition, buying a stealth biotech AI startup in a $400…

Google releases Gemma 4 with Apache 2.0 licensing: Google's most capable open model family debuts with a permissive Apache 2.0 license for the first time,…

OpenAI Closes $122B Mega-Round, Unveils ChatGPT Super App: OpenAI officially confirms a $122 billion funding round at an $852 billion valuation, backed by…

OpenAI Raises $122B at $852B Valuation: Led by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, OpenAI's monster funding round includes $3B from retail investors and positions…

Pentagon's Culture War Tactic Against Anthropic Has Backfired: A California judge temporarily blocked the Pentagon from labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk,…

2026-03-30 Digest Weekly Podcast

Anthropic Leak Reveals 'Claude Mythos': Leaked Anthropic draft posts reveal a new model class above Opus with 'dramatically higher scores on tests,' a…

ARC-AGI-3 Launches with $2M Prize — Every Frontier Model Scores Below 1%: The new ARC-AGI-3 benchmark places AI in interactive game environments that untrained…

OpenAI Expands Funding Round Past $120 Billion Ahead of Potential IPO: OpenAI added another $10 billion to its record financing round, pushing the total beyond…

OpenAI shuts down Sora and its Disney deal: OpenAI announced it is discontinuing Sora, the video generation tool launched in late 2024 and tied to a major…

Jensen Huang Claims AGI Has Been Achieved: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told the Lex Fridman podcast 'I think we've achieved AGI,' reigniting debate over the…

2026-03-23 Digest Weekly Podcast

Pentagon Told Anthropic the Two Sides Were 'Nearly Aligned': Court filings show the Pentagon privately said negotiations with Anthropic were nearly complete…

Meta Rogue AI Security Incident: An AI agent gave Meta employees unauthorized access to company and user data for nearly two hours after providing inaccurate…

Meta's Rogue AI Agent Exposes Private Data: A malfunctioning AI agent inadvertently exposed Meta company and user data to engineers who lacked permission to…

OpenAI Ships GPT-5.4 Mini and Nano: Compact models optimized for coding, tool use, and sub-agent workloads near-match the full model's performance but come…

Warren Presses Pentagon Over xAI Access to Classified Networks: Sen.

2026-03-16 Digest Weekly Podcast

US Army Awards Anduril $20B Contract: The Army consolidates 120+ procurement actions into a single enterprise contract with the defense AI startup, marking one…

Anthropic Drops Long-Context Surcharge for Claude: Requests with more than 200,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 no longer cost up to twice as much,…

Pentagon Labels Anthropic a 'Supply Chain Risk': The US War Department CTO claims Claude's built-in ethics 'pollute' its AI supply chain, prompting Anthropic…

AI agent hacked McKinsey's internal AI platform in two hours: An offensive AI agent breached McKinsey's Lilli platform — used by 43,000+ employees — gaining…

Yann LeCun's AMI Labs Raises $1.03 Billion: LeCun's startup secures a landmark $1B+ round backed by Nvidia and Toyota to develop world models as an alternative…

Anthropic Sues the Department of Defense: Anthropic filed suit against 17 US federal agencies after the Pentagon designated it a supply-chain risk for refusing…

OpenAI's Robotics Chief Quits Over Pentagon Deal: Caitlin Kalinowski, head of hardware and robotics at OpenAI, resigned citing concerns about mass surveillance…

Anthropic's Claude AI uncovers over 100 security vulnerabilities in Firefox: Claude found more than 100 bugs in Firefox — including flaws that had survived…

Anthropic Officially Deemed Supply Chain Risk, CEO Announces Legal Challenge: The Pentagon formally notified Anthropic that it and its products are a national…

Bing AI Promoted Fake OpenClaw Repo Pushing Malware: Microsoft Bing's AI-enhanced search surfaced a fake GitHub repository whose installers deployed…

2026-03-04 Digest Security

US Military Uses Anthropic's Claude for AI-Driven Strike Planning in Iran War: For the first time in history, the US military is using generative AI at scale…

2026-03-03 Digest Papers

OpenAI and Google both shipped new models on the same day: GPT-5.3 Instant targets smoother everyday conversation with less 'cringe' over-caution, while Gemini…

2026-03-02 Digest Papers

The Anthropic-Pentagon breakdown is the AI policy story of the moment.

2026-03-01 Digest

Iran conflict escalates: U.S. and Israeli strikes killed Supreme Leader Khamenei, prompting Iranian missile and drone retaliation; Trump signals a goal of…

2026-02-28 Digest Papers

Anthropic vs. Pentagon standoff escalates: The Trump administration banned Anthropic products from all federal agencies and the Pentagon designated the company…

2026-02-27 Digest Papers

Anthropic vs. Pentagon escalates to executive order — Trump ordered all federal agencies to immediately cease using Anthropic products after the company…

2026-02-26 Digest Papers

Block (Square/Cash App) slashes ~4,000 jobs — Jack Dorsey explicitly cites AI as the reason, cutting the workforce from 10,000+ to under 6,000 in one of the…

2026-02-25 Digest Papers

Nvidia posts another record quarter as CEO Jensen Huang declares token demand has 'gone completely exponential,' underscoring unrelenting AI infrastructure…

2026-02-24 Digest Papers

Anthropic vs. the Pentagon: The DoD gave Anthropic until Friday to accept 'any lawful use' terms in its AI contract — the same language OpenAI and xAI have…

2026-02-23 Digest Papers

OpenAI at $850B: Reportedly closing a $100B funding round with Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, and Microsoft as backers — the largest private AI deal in history.

2026-02-21 Digest Papers

AI Safety Gap Exposed: New research shows that text-based alignment does not transfer to tool-call safety in LLM agents — a critical blind spot as agents…

2026-02-20 Digest

Cline CLI supply chain attack — The popular AI coding assistant was compromised via a hijacked npm token, silently installing autonomous agent 'OpenClaw' on…