Meta projected spending up to $10bn a year on Anthropic’s AI models
Meta projected spending up to $10bn a year on Anthropic’s AI models

Meta has become one of Anthropic’s largest customers, at the same time as Mark Zuckerberg has been attacking the company in public. At one point this year Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as $10bn a year on Anthropic’s models, The …

AI-driven cyber attacks are now the top risk to the financial system, the FSB says
AI-driven cyber attacks are now the top risk to the financial system, the FSB says

The chair of the Financial Stability Board has told G20 finance ministers that what artificial intelligence does to cyber risk is now the most immediate threat to the global financial system. Andrew Bailey set out the assessment in a letter ahead of th…

MIT report says AI can complete almost any undergraduate assignment it sets
MIT report says AI can complete almost any undergraduate assignment it sets

An MIT committee report says AI can produce credible responses to almost any written assignment in its undergraduate curriculum and has driven measurable shifts in campus culture in under three years. In the EU, systems that monitor students during tes…

UK networks are not ready for AI traffic, say mobile operators
UK networks are not ready for AI traffic, say mobile operators

VodafoneThree’s networks director says UK mobile quality is not ready for AI traffic and that planning rules, not money, are the obstacle, with more than half of its upgrades to existing masts requiring permission. The EU’s Gigabit Infrastructure Act h…

How Bill Gates uses AI, and why he thinks nobody is preparing for it
How Bill Gates uses AI, and why he thinks nobody is preparing for it

Bill Gates has published a memo proposing a tax on AI, a category of jobs reserved for humans and new institutions to manage the transition, and told GeekWire that industry leaders are worried privately while staying quiet publicly. He proposed a robot…

Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over song lyrics in Claude’s training data
Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over song lyrics in Claude’s training data

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have sued Anthropic in California over song lyrics allegedly taken from pirate archives, naming Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann personally and seeking up to $150,000 per composition. A Munich court ruled in Nove…

Chinese memory maker CXMT sues Pentagon to get off US list
Chinese memory maker CXMT sues Pentagon to get off US list

CXMT has sued the US Department of Defense in Washington seeking removal from the list identifying it as a Chinese military company, a designation that blocks defence contracts without restricting commercial sales. The company is the world’s fourth-lar…

OpenAI to stop supplying models to Cursor after SpaceX acquisition
OpenAI to stop supplying models to Cursor after SpaceX acquisition

OpenAI is ending its contract to supply models to Cursor following SpaceX’s $60B acquisition, with access shutting off on 12 November and its forthcoming Astra model withheld. Cursor and SpaceXAI shipped Grok 4.5 together in July, which is available in…

Why businesses need clearer limits before AI agents are authorized to act
Why businesses need clearer limits before AI agents are authorized to act

A 2026 IBM study points to questions about AI readiness, visibility, and control. The survey of 2,000 C-level technology executives found 11% felt fully prepared for the AI-agent deployment expected over the following year. Two-thirds of CIOs and CTOs …