US judge strikes down Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic as illegal retaliation
US judge strikes down Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic as illegal retaliation

A federal judge has voided the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk, finding that the label was punishment for the company’s public criticism of the Trump administration rather than a security assessment. US Dist…

Claude now has its own browser and no longer needs the Chrome extension
Claude now has its own browser and no longer needs the Chrome extension

Anthropic has built a browser directly into Claude Cowork, opening it in a side panel when a prompt needs the web instead of using its Chrome extension. It is on by default for Enterprise, Pro, Max and Team users, who can switch back in settings. Anthr…

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft want cyber defence treated as a leadership priority
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft want cyber defence treated as a leadership priority

More than 100 organisations including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft have signed an open letter urging businesses and governments to make cyber defence an immediate leadership priority and fix weaknesses in their own software. The EU’s Cyber R…

UiPath founder Daniel Dines has written a book that dares readers to prove it wrong by 2028
UiPath founder Daniel Dines has written a book that dares readers to prove it wrong by 2028

Daniel Dines has published The Work That Remains, arguing that enterprises should let AI agents prepare work while humans own consequential decisions and deterministic automation carries them out. He stakes the framework on a dated prediction and names…

Salesforce is putting Claude at the centre of its products, and itself inside Claude
Salesforce is putting Claude at the centre of its products, and itself inside Claude

Salesforce and Anthropic have announced an expanded partnership called Claudeforce, which puts Claude at the centre of Salesforce’s agent products and simultaneously puts Salesforce inside Claude as a plugin. It formalises a relationship that already r…

OpenAI says earlier signals could have prevented the Hugging Face breach
OpenAI says earlier signals could have prevented the Hugging Face breach

OpenAI’s technical report on the Hugging Face breach says an internal team saw its models reaching the open internet from their sandbox in late May, and that a June alert did not stop the evaluation. It also found that training sometimes rewarded agent…

Anthropic signs $45B compute deal with Britain’s Nscale
Anthropic signs $45B compute deal with Britain’s Nscale

Anthropic has agreed to spend $45B over six years renting AI computing power from Nscale’s flagship West Virginia data centre development, covering about 460 megawatts. Nscale is a London company preparing a US listing as soon as next month. Anthropic …

Meta will pay up to $16.68bn to settle the 29-state youth safety case
Meta will pay up to $16.68bn to settle the 29-state youth safety case

Meta has agreed to pay a maximum of $16.68bn to settle claims brought by states across the country. They alleged the company designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled consumers about their safety, and improperly collected the personal …

Bill Gates proposes ‘Human Reserved’ jobs and a tax on AI tokens
Bill Gates proposes ‘Human Reserved’ jobs and a tax on AI tokens

Bill Gates has proposed what he calls Human Reserved jobs, occupations society would deliberately keep for people even where AI could do them, and the analogy he reaches for is a nature reserve, a place where development is restricted because something…

Anthropic is expected to pitch investors a $30tn market opportunity
Anthropic is expected to pitch investors a $30tn market opportunity

Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunity runs above $30tn. That figure would top the $28.5tn SpaceX put in front of investors before its own record listing. Corrie Driebusch reported the number for The Wall Stree…