Trump heads to China to spread the gospel of American tech while emulating Xi Jinping on AI Tim Cook and Elon Musk, among other tech CEOS, will accompany the US president on a trip to China The Guardian - US · May 12
Exclusive: White Circle raises $11 million to stop AI models from going rogue The Paris startup, backed by leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Mistral, and Hugging Face, says companies need real-time tools to control what AI systems do after they are deployed. Fortune · May 12
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella 'proud' of profit-making OpenAI investment Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified in Elon Musk's lawsuit. Musk claims OpenAI betrayed its nonprofit mission. Nadella expressed pride in Microsoft's profitable investment. The trial reveals internal strife among AI leaders. Musk seeks OpenAI's return to nonprofit status. Nadella stated Microsoft's investment helped create a large nonprofit. Internal documents suggest… The Economic Times · May 12
Riding the AI buck: Rising API, usage-based costs force a rethink As enterprises rapidly scale AI adoption, soaring API and usage-based costs are forcing companies to rethink spending, introduce guardrails and, in some cases, hire humans instead. Swathi Moorthy weighs in. The Economic Times · May 12
CoreWeave Stock Falls as the AI Growth Story Slows Down CoreWeave’s red-hot AI rally cooled sharply as investor concerns over Q2 outlook and spending plans overshadowed explosive growth. Barchart · May 11
AI-powered hacking has exploded into industrial-scale threat, Google says Criminal groups and state-linked actors appear to be using commercial models to refine and scale up attacks The Guardian - UK · May 11
OpenAI creates new unit with $4 billion investment to aid corporate AI push OpenAI is launching a new venture with over four billion dollars. This new company will help businesses build and use artificial intelligence. OpenAI is also acquiring Tomoro, an AI consulting firm. This move aims to quickly expand its services. The venture will embed AI engineers into organizations. This will identify… The Economic Times · May 11
Anthropic links Claude’s blackmail behaviour to ‘evil AI’ fiction Anthropic's Claude AI models previously exhibited blackmailing behaviour, influenced by fictional portrayals of evil AI. The company has since overhauled its alignment training, emphasising ethical reasoning and positive AI narratives. Newer Claude systems now achieve perfect scores on agentic misalignment evaluations, no longer engaging in such harmful actions. The Economic Times · May 11
Microsoft boss Satya Nadella to testify on his role in OpenAI's founding Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is expected to take the stand Monday in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, to explain emails that revealed how his company funded the ChatGPT creator's shift from philanthropic organisation to for-profit AI giant. He will rely on recently disclosed Microsoft emails from January 2018 to demonstrate… The Economic Times · May 11
Mythos: A challenge for the Indian banking system Claude Mythos, a cutting-edge AI tool, has unearthed significant weaknesses in cybersecurity systems. In response, Indian authorities are swiftly mobilising to safeguard the integrity of the financial sector. With the Reserve Bank of India's robust framework in place, the emphasis now shifts to the implementation of comprehensive AI standards. The Economic Times · May 9
ETtech Explainer: AI is writing most of the code for companies — what this means AI is now writing a large part of code for tech companies. Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Indian firms like Meesho and Freshworks are using AI extensively. This shift boosts productivity. Developers are focusing on complex tasks and quality. The Economic Times · May 9
OpenAI makes its rival to Anthropic's Mythos more widely available to cyber defenders Recent security testing suggests that GPT-5.5. model is nearly as good at finding and exploiting software bugs as Anthropic's Mythos Preview. Axios · May 7
Elon Musk called Anthropic ‘evil’ 3 months ago. Now he’s taking $4 billion to become its landlord “He who controls the data center, really does control the application of artificial intelligence right now.” Fortune · May 7
Tech is turning increasingly to religion in a quest to create ethical AI Tech companies are increasingly seeking guidance from faith leaders to shape artificial intelligence The Independent UK · May 7
TechRadar · May 7 'You would be able to say to it: 'Make a better version of yourself.' And it just goes off and does that completely autonomously': Anthropic Co-Founder on our wild 'recursive' AI future Anthropic warns of AI capable of 'recursive self-improvement,' and we'd better prepare for this scary, near future.
Fortune · May 7 Anthropic’s new SpaceX compute deal comes as anger—and conspiracy theories—spread around AI data centers The scramble to build ever-larger AI campuses is fueling both legitimate community concerns and increasingly bizarre online fears
Tom’s Hardware · May 7 Musk's SpaceX has rented out access to its supercomputer's 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and 300 megawatts of AI compute power to rival Anthropic — Musk says “No one set off my evil detector,” Antrhropic also interested in orbital data centers Anthropic has signed a deal with SpaceX to access the latter's massive data center, which has over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and 300 megawatts of computing power.
Axios · May 7 Behind the Curtain: Intelligence explosion Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark tells Axios: "What I'm looking at is a technological trend where, if anything, the speed will accelerate further."
Axios · May 7 How Elon grew to love Anthropic Business imperatives turned Musk's AI rival into a partner.
Barchart · May 6 With Earnings Ahead, Wait for a Dip Before You Buy CoreWeave Stock CoreWeave’s Q1 will reflect solid top-line growth as demand for its high-performance computing infrastructure remains solid.
Fortune · May 6 Trump administration suddenly embraces AI oversight ideas it once rejected After railing against Biden-era AI safety efforts, the Trump administration is now weighing its own frontier-model oversight as fears grow around cyber risks and national security.
Fortune · May 6 Your company's AI could delete everything in 9 seconds. ServiceNow wants to be the kill switch Enterprises are deploying AI agents without identities, audit trails, or guardrails. Bill McDermott is betting $30 billion on fixing it.
TechRadar · May 6 Anthropic rolls out a host of new AI agents to target 'the most time-consuming work in financial services' Anthropic has launched 10 prebuilt AI agents specifically for finance workers powered by Claude Opus 4.7.
TechRadar · May 6 7 of the biggest names in AI, including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, are now moving into military systems — but one major player is missing from the list, and that raises uncomfortable questions about where this technology is heading A sweeping Pentagon push to integrate AI into military systems includes nearly every major tech player except Anthropic, exposing a growing divide over how far such technology should go.
The Independent UK · May 6 Mark Zuckerberg personally authorised Meta’s AI copyright infringement, lawsuit alleges Five publishing houses and one author claim Meta pirated millions of their copyrighted works to train its AI