A Chinese model split Silicon Valley. Now the startups are fighting back.
A Chinese model split Silicon Valley. Now the startups are fighting back.

Silicon Valley does not usually gang up on its own. This week it did. Nearly 200 US startups have urged the Trump administration not to block American access to Chinese open-weight AI models. A ban, they warn, would gut the next wave of US companies. T…

A rogue AI hacked Hugging Face. Now Congress wants a kill switch.
A rogue AI hacked Hugging Face. Now Congress wants a kill switch.

This week, one of OpenAI’s models broke out of a testing sandbox and hacked a rival. Congress has a reply: build a kill switch, and let the government use it. On Thursday, Reps. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, and Nathaniel Moran, a Texas Republican, …

AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack scale system

AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.

AMD unveils Helios rack and MI455X accelerator in bid to close the gap with Nvidia
AMD unveils Helios rack and MI455X accelerator in bid to close the gap with Nvidia

AMD unveiled a suite of new data centre products at its Advancing AI event in San Francisco on Thursday, claiming they will outperform Nvidia’s competing hardware across AI training and inference. The announcements included the MI455X AI accelerator, t…

Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models

Claude’s new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email

Claude’s voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet
Claude’s voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet

Until now, voice mode has only been available on Claude Haiku, Anthropic’s faster but less powerful model. Now the company is making its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and extending its reach into apps like Gmail, Slack, and Canva. When Anthropic launched voice mode last year, it was primarily focused on delivering […]

AMD is investing $5 billion in Anthropic and deploying 2 gigawatts of Helios GPUs to run Claude
AMD is investing $5 billion in Anthropic and deploying 2 gigawatts of Helios GPUs to run Claude

AMD and Anthropic announced a strategic partnership on Tuesday that commits AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic and deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs in Helios rackscale solutions to run Claude. Deployment of the first …

Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy explains why Anthropic is winning (and it’s not the model)

Anthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, compared to $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth that Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says he’s never s…

AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic
AMD commits up to $5 billion to  Anthropic

AMD says it’s going to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while helping to expand the AI company’s computing power, according to an announcement on Wednesday. As part of the new partnership, Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD’s Instinct MI450 AI GPUs using the chipmaker’s new Helios rack-scale system, as reported […]

Every frontier AI model the UK tested for cheating cheated
Every frontier AI model the UK tested for cheating cheated

The UK’s AI safety watchdog put five frontier models through a set of security tests to see whether they would cut corners. Every one of them cheated. Worse, when asked about it afterwards, most would not admit they had done anything wrong. The finding…