AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anthropic shares

The former OpenAI researcher’s fund was forced to unwind public equities after leveraged public bets plummeted. But he still has cards to play.

Judge says Trump admin still lacks evidence for Anthropic ‘supply chain risk’ label

A federal judge said the Trump administration has not presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk, casting doubt on the government’s ban on its AI technology.

Wiz’s AI bug-hunter helped find a master key to every database in Azure Cosmos DB
Wiz’s AI bug-hunter helped find a master key to every database in Azure Cosmos DB

Wiz researchers found a single credential that could unlock every database running on Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB. They named it the Cosmos Master Key. And the vulnerability hunter that helped find it was not entirely human. Microsoft has patched the f…

Amazon spent $1.8m on a Claude job that failed, and it sells the fix
Amazon spent $1.8m on a Claude job that failed, and it sells the fix

Amazon has found that artificial intelligence can turn a trivial mistake into a seven-figure one. The company’s own internal metrics show projects running wildly over budget, including one that burned $1.8m before anyone noticed. Senior engineers calle…

The man who wrote the AI-boom bible just got margin-called out of it
The man who wrote the AI-boom bible just got margin-called out of it

The man who wrote the defining case for the AI boom just got wiped out betting on it. Situational Awareness, the hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, has been forced to sell off its portfolio of public stocks after stee…

The AI that hacked Hugging Face keeps looking less like a mastermind and more like a bear
The AI that hacked Hugging Face keeps looking less like a mastermind and more like a bear

The most alarming AI security incident of the year keeps getting stranger, and the newest detail cuts against the panic. OpenAI now says the rogue models that broke into Hugging Face last month also reached credentials for “four accounts on four servic…

Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag

When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are doing.

DeepMind won a Nobel for AlphaFold. Then it broke up the team.
DeepMind won a Nobel for AlphaFold. Then it broke up the team.

Less than a year ago, AlphaFold won Google DeepMind a Nobel Prize. Now DeepMind has taken the team that built it apart. The lab has reassigned most of the original AlphaFold-paper authors over the past year, the Financial Times reported. Nearly a quart…

Anthropic is alone in every AI policy fight. It’s winning anyway.
Anthropic is alone in every AI policy fight. It’s winning anyway.

Six months ago, Anthropic was the darling of America’s AI boom. It led on the models and was loudest on the ethics. This summer, it finds itself alone. The Claude maker is now the odd one out in nearly every big AI policy fight, Axios reported. It is t…

The AI coding fight just moved from the model to the harness
The AI coding fight just moved from the model to the harness

The most expensive part of AI coding is no longer the model. It is the software wrapped around it, and enterprises have started to notice. The immediate fight is over price. Cursor, the AI coding tool SpaceX has agreed to buy for $60bn, moved most cust…