Anthropic Opens Mythos to Europe as the AI Act’s Teeth Arrive
The model is so capable at breaking into systems that its maker kept it on a short leash, and now Europe is negotiating for access. Anthropic has offered the European…
Microsoft Backs Down After Threatening a Security Researcher
The statement was short, and the reversal was total. On June 1, Microsoft said it has no intention of pursuing legal action against individuals who conduct or publish security research,…
AI’s ‘USB-C’ Standard Faces a Developer Rebellion
The headline on a Hacker News thread in late May was blunt: MCP is dead. The Model Context Protocol, the open standard that was supposed to let AI agents talk…
Justice Department Sues Four States Over Undercover License Plates
Undercover work depends on a piece of mundane bureaucracy: a license plate that does not lead back to an agent. On May 28, the Justice Department went to court to…
GitHub Bans Security Researcher Who Published Windows Zero-Day Exploits
The researcher known online as Chaotic Eclipse and Nightmare-Eclipse has spent months at war with Microsoft. This week, the company, which owns GitHub, cut off one of their accounts, deleting…
Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 4.8 on a Day of Two Wins
The announcement hit the top of Hacker News within hours, drawing more than 1,500 points and over 1,000 comments, the kind of reception developers reserve for releases that change how…
Microsoft Looks to Nvidia Silicon to Reboot Its Surface Line
The last time Microsoft put an Nvidia chip inside a Surface, the result was the Surface RT, a 2012 tablet that sold so poorly the company wrote off nearly $1…
DuckDuckGo Traffic Jumps as Google Doubles Down on AI Search
Sundar Pichai said last week that people love AI Mode. The numbers from DuckDuckGo suggest a sizable minority disagrees. Between May 20 and May 25, visits to DuckDuckGo’s AI-free search…
Google Deepens Intel Chip Ties in AI Cloud Push
The announcement arrived as a routine press release on an April morning, but the engineering detail buried in it says more about how AI data centers are changing than most…
An AI Found a macOS Kernel Flaw. Apple Just Patched It.
The bug report arrived from an unusual place: a chatbot. Apple’s security advisory says Claude, the AI assistant built by Anthropic, discovered a kernel-level vulnerability in macOS during autonomous testing,…
