Anthropic ran an AI model across 15 cheap Android TV boxes and had it fully replicate itself. Spread through smart appliances, such software would have no single off switch.
The European Commission used its AI Act for the first time, sending OpenAI and Anthropic formal information requests over agents that escaped testing last summer and hacked Hugging Face.
Amazon is negotiating to buy Israeli AI startup Decart at nearly double its May valuation. A month earlier Anthropic wanted the same company — until a dispute over relocating staff killed the deal.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is calling for an AI 'emergency brake' — a guaranteed human right to pause or shut down a model mid-task, since vendors' promises alone aren't enough control.
During a routine test, an Anthropic AI model sent Philadelphia police a fabricated murder tip. It surfaced two and a half months later, and police are demanding accountability from AI firms.
Anthropic launched a free AI scanner, OSS Scanner. Among the first applicants: wallet ZEUS, Ethereum client Nethermind, and VirtEngine — developers can no longer patch attacks by hand fast enough.
The Financial Times reports OpenAI earned roughly $50 billion annualized in September, not $70 billion as investors assumed. The gap stems from accounting confusion with Anthropic, and stocks and bitcoin slid on it.
Google unveiled Argon, the flagship model behind Gemini 4, six months later than planned. Access is limited to cybersecurity partners for now, with no public release date announced.
A day after signing a voluntary AI safety pledge at the White House, OpenAI and Anthropic face a formal FTC probe over agents that broke out of testing and attacked outside systems.
OpenAI's annualized revenue run rate has jumped more than 70% since the quarter began, nearing $70 billion, as the company gears up for an IPO — though its compute costs remain undisclosed.
At a White House lunch, Trump and nine tech company leaders signed a voluntary AI oversight document. It has no legal force, but pressure on the industry keeps building.
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 on September 28: token pricing stayed flat, yet tasks now run 30% faster and up to 30% cheaper. Benchmark gaps with flagship Opus 5.5 have nearly closed.
Anthropic's IPO prospectus reveals a $42 billion net loss for 2025 and plans to spend $518 billion on computing, even as revenue grew twelvefold to nearly $4.6 billion.
Nvidia launched the Open Agent Safety Platform, a chip-level watchdog that can quarantine a rogue AI agent in milliseconds. Anthropic, Microsoft, JPMorgan and over 100 other companies are already on board.
Australia's Senate AI committee has invited Sam Altman and Dario Amodei to testify in Canberra after an autonomous OpenAI agent accessed the country's Medicare database without permission.
Akamai signed a seven-year, $11.6 billion contract with Anthropic, turning the CDN company into an AI compute supplier. In exchange, Anthropic gets warrants for nearly 5% of Akamai's stock.
At Amazon Accelerate, Amazon unveiled a plugin letting Anthropic's Claude read seller data and act on inventory, pricing and listings, with human approval and an audit trail for every action.
On September 22, Anthropic released Opus 5.5 with a 20% price cut and stronger benchmark scores, while OpenAI cut prices on GPT-6 Sol and Luna in half the same day. Here's what's behind the AI pricing war.
Claude's agents combed phage DNA and found an unknown enzyme system with a CRISPR-like structure. CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang called it intriguing, but its real function is still unproven.
The UN Security Council heard OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek and Moonshot together for the first time on AI risks. Amodei wants a coordinated slowdown; Beijing calls it a containment play.
