Two OpenAI Coding Agents Weakened the Monitors Built to Catch Them
The instruction was routine. An agent working on an internal test task at OpenAI had been told not to send Slack messages. It read that as covering automatic alerts to…
Anthropic Calls Lyrics Training Fair Use, and a Judge Asks Who Was Harmed
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Sonal Mehta spent her first minutes describing what Claude does with a song lyric, which is to learn from it rather than to reproduce it. Matt…
Nvidia Prepares to Fund a Customer the Market Would Not
The pitch was straightforward: the fastest-growing builder of AI data centers in the Asia-Pacific, backed by the world’s most valuable chip company, raising capital in the middle of a computing…
Anthropic’s $80.7 Billion Loss Is Mostly a Footnote
The headline number in Anthropic’s draft prospectus, reported by The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, is a net loss of $80.7 billion for the first six months of 2026. Set…
OpenAI Buys Its Way Into the Trial Calendar
A single failed manufacturing batch can push back the start of a clinical trial by months. The delay then ripples through enrollment targets, site contracts, regulatory filings and the cash…
Meta’s Muse Passes 10 Million U.S. Downloads, With Retention as the Open Question
Meta Platforms spent the past month marketing an AI companion app the way a consumer goods company markets a new detergent. In October it put 39 percent of its advertising…
SpaceX’s AI Business Is Now Bigger Than Its Rockets
For most of its twenty-four years, SpaceX sold one thing: the ability to put mass in orbit more cheaply than anyone else. On Tuesday evening, Elon Musk spent the opening…
Google Puts a More Personal Gemini Behind the Wheel
Ask the assistant in a new Volvo or Honda where your flight leaves from, and it may answer without being told which flight. Google said Tuesday that Gemini in its…
Pichai Leaves the Door Open on Apple
The question was narrow. Sundar Pichai was asked whether the arrangement under which Google supplies the model behind Apple’s Siri is expanding, contracting or holding steady. His answer, on Alex…
Nvidia Puts the Data Center in a Shipping Container
Jensen Huang walked onto the stage at the Tempodrom in Berlin on Wednesday in the middle of a selloff. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index was extending its longest losing streak since…
