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Super PACs tied to OpenAI and Anthropic have unleashed more than $16 million in the race for New York's 12th congressional district, transforming what began as attacks on state lawmaker Alex Bores into a national proxy battle over AI regulation. The spending has inadvertently elevated Bores into a front-runner, while exposing how quickly tech giants can reshape electoral politics.
The NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos AI model for offensive cyber operations, with half a dozen Anthropic engineers embedded inside the agency. This development comes despite the Department of Defense designating Anthropic a supply chain risk and banning its technology after the company refused to allow use of its AI for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.
Anthropic has filed confidentially for an IPO at a $965 billion valuation, edging ahead of OpenAI in a high-stakes race to go public. The rivalry between the two AI giants is accelerating innovation but also raising questions about balancing rapid growth with safety concerns. Both companies are warning about AI risks while simultaneously launching their most powerful models yet.
Anthropic Claude introduced Auto Memory to help the AI model learn from mistakes across sessions, dramatically improving workflow automation for developers. But a month-long performance collapse revealed serious infrastructure problems, catching the company off guard when AMD executive Stella Laurenzo exposed a 73% drop in thinking depth through detailed analysis.
Anthropic is calling for governments to gain legal authority to block dangerous AI deployments and require mandatory safety tests as its Claude model now writes 80% of its own code. Co-founder Jack Clark warns AI needs a 'brake pedal' while the company prepares frameworks addressing catastrophic AI risks and AI-driven job displacement ahead of its anticipated IPO.
President Trump confirmed discussions with AI companies about giving equity to the American public, with OpenAI at the center of talks. The Trump administration has been negotiating a government stake in AI firms, potentially seeding a Public Wealth Fund that could distribute AI-driven profits directly to citizens as concerns mount over job displacement and wealth concentration in Silicon Valley.
Anthropic is urging the world's leading AI companies to consider pausing frontier AI development as its Claude chatbot now writes over 80% of the code merged into its systems. The company warns that AI systems may be approaching recursive self-improvement, where they can design their own successors with minimal human input, potentially increasing the risk of humans losing control of the technology.
A security researcher discovered a vulnerability in Anthropic's Claude Code GitHub Action that allowed attackers to hijack public repositories using nothing more than a malicious GitHub issue. The flaw bypassed permission checks through fake bot accounts and prompt injection, enabling theft of OIDC tokens and full write access. Anthropic patched the issue within four days, but the attack pattern has already caused real supply chain damage.
Meta is considering charging up to $200 per month for its upcoming Hatch AI agent, positioning it alongside premium offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic. The consumer AI agent tool would handle tasks like coding, email management, and scheduling, integrating directly into Instagram's 2 billion-user platform.
Stockholm-based Lovable has signed an expanded multi-year deal with Google Cloud that increases its cloud usage fivefold. The AI partnership targets enterprise customers by integrating Google's Gemini models, Anthropic's Claude, and Wiz security to address corporate concerns about AI-generated code. With over 1 million new projects weekly and $400 million in annualized revenue, Lovable is betting on enterprise adoption.
Anthropic introduced a three-tier Services Track and Partner Hub for its Claude Partner Network, establishing clear benchmarks for consulting firms deploying its AI model. Since launching in March with $100 million in support, over 40,000 firms have applied and more than 10,000 consultants earned Claude certification. Major firms like Accenture, Deloitte, and PwC are integrating Claude across hundreds of thousands of workers.
A Stanford Law School study reveals that AI-generated answers to contract law questions were preferred over responses from law professors in 75% of blind comparisons. The research, involving 16 professors from 14 U.S. law schools, tested whether AI could serve as an effective tutoring tool for law students, with results showing AI models like Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro aligned with professional standards while being flagged as harmful only 3.5% of the time compared to 12% for human answers.
Google has quietly launched a pilot program offering Android app developers payment for access to their source code to train its AI models. The confidential content offer pilot targets Play Store developers, allowing them to monetize existing code while retaining full intellectual property rights. The move signals Google's push to close the gap with competitors like Anthropic's Claude Code and GitHub Copilot in AI-powered coding capabilities.
South Korea has secured access to Anthropic's advanced cybersecurity AI model Mythos through Project Glasswing. The Korea Internet & Security Agency will join 150 organizations across 15 countries using the model to identify software vulnerabilities. Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and SK Telecom are also expected to participate in the expansion.
OpenAI's ChatGPT reached 1 billion global monthly active users in May, roughly three years after launch, making it the fastest app in history to hit this milestone. The AI chatbot outpaced TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Google Maps, signaling the rapid adoption of AI assistants from novelty to daily habit. Meanwhile, Anthropic's Claude is growing at 640% year-over-year from a smaller base of 56 million users.
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