Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved

The final approval settles one case, but it doesn’t resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.

Four teams just broke AI agents four ways in ten days. The flaw is the same one.
Four teams just broke AI agents four ways in ten days. The flaw is the same one.

We spent two years asking whether AI would lie to us. The more useful question this summer is what happens once we hand it the keys. Give a model your Gmail, your calendar, a memory and the power to act, and its mistakes stop being embarrassing. They s…

China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance 
China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance 

China’s leading AI companies are ramping up the pressure on Silicon Valley, as Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled models they claim can go toe-to-toe with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost. The rapid-fire releases suggest America’s lead at the AI frontier is increasingly tight, just as the technology is becoming […]

Anthropic is in early talks to lease $10 billion in compute from Meta
Anthropic is in early talks to lease $10 billion in compute from Meta

Anthropic is in very preliminary talks to lease computing power from Meta in a deal worth about $10 billion, the New York Times reported on Friday. CNBC confirmed the early-stage discussions. The talks come weeks after Anthropic announced a $1.25 billi…

1Password lets Claude inside your accounts without handing over the keys

1Password can now sign Claude into websites without exposing passwords or one-time codes, but the protection ends after login when the AI begins operating inside your account.

An Oversight Board study says top AI models are stifling political speech
An Oversight Board study says top AI models are stifling political speech

Ask a leading AI model to criticise a government with strong free-speech protections, and it usually will. Ask it to criticise a repressive one, and it is far more likely to refuse. That is the finding of a new study from the Oversight Board. The board…

AI’s fiercest rivals just agreed on one thing: regulate frontier AI now
AI’s fiercest rivals just agreed on one thing: regulate frontier AI now

The people building the most powerful AI rarely agree on much. This week, three of them agreed on one big thing. The frontier needs regulating, and soon. Over five weeks, the chiefs of Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic each published a memo on how …

New open-weight AI from China is toppling the best of OpenAI and Claude Fable

Moonshot’s 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 comes close to Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol in several benchmarks, while remaining open weight.

1Password lets Claude log you into websites without ever seeing your passwords
1Password lets Claude log you into websites without ever seeing your passwords

1Password has launched a browser integration that lets Anthropic’s Claude use stored credentials to complete tasks on the web without the passwords ever reaching the AI model, according to a blog post published on Thursday. The company calls it a zero-…

Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8

The FT reports Kimi K3 will be the largest open AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion.