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Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup that works with companies including OpenAI and Anthropic, confirms major data breach

Mercor confirmed it was hit by a supply chain attack targeting LiteLLM, a widely used AI developer tool. Extortion gang Lapsus$ claims to have walked...

02.04.2026 10

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Anthropic mistakenly leaks its own AI coding tool’s source code, just days after accidentally revealing an upcoming model known as “Mythos”

Hundreds of thousands of lines of code were exposed, giving researchers insight into upcoming models and internal architecture.

31.03.2026 6

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Exclusive: Anthropic left details of an unreleased model, exclusive CEO retreat, sitting in an unsecured data trove in a significant security lapse

Details of not-yet-disclosed models, unpublished blog drafts, and other private information was inadvertently made accessible via the company’s...

26.03.2026 3

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Exclusive: Anthropic acknowledges testing new AI model representing ‘step change’ in capabilities, after accidental data leak reveals its existence

AI company Anthropic is testing a previously undisclosed AI model called 'Mythos' that is significantly more capable than anything it has previously...

26.03.2026 7

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An AI agent destroyed this coder’s entire database. He’s not the only one with a horror story.

AI coding tools are deleting databases, crashing systems, and piling on technical debt even as bosses tout ‘productivity’

18.03.2026 3

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Microsoft launches Copilot Health, a dedicated space for personal health data and AI-driven insights

Microsoft joins OpenAI and Anthropic in the race to become the AI front door for consumer healthcare.

12.03.2026 6

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Google and OpenAI employees back Anthropic in a legal fight that could redefine military use of AI

As researchers at rival companies publicly back Anthropic's legal fight with the Trump Administration, a dispute over military contracts could tip...

10.03.2026 3

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Anthropic sues the Pentagon after being labeled a threat to national security

The lawsuit calls the administration's actions "unprecedented and unlawful."

09.03.2026 7

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Anthropic CEO apologizes for leaked memo calling OpenAI staff ‘gullible’ as company confirms supply chain risk designation

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei walks back attacks on rival OpenAI, but says it will challenge the supply chain risk designation in court

06.03.2026 6

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OpenAI launches GPT-5.4, its most powerful model for enterprise work—and a direct shot at Anthropic

OpenAI's new flagship model takes aim at the enterprise market—and at Anthropic.

05.03.2026 5

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Exclusive: CrowdStrike and SentinelOne veterans raise $34M to tackle enterprise AI’s governance gap

As companies deploy AI at scale, JetStream wants to give enterprises a way to see, control, and stop it.

03.03.2026 10

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Sam Altman says OpenAI is renegotiating with the Pentagon after an ‘opportunistic and sloppy’ deal

The renegotiated terms come after OpenAI faced a wave of backlash from inside and outside the company.

03.03.2026 10

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OpenAI’s Pentagon deal raises new questions about AI and mass surveillance

Legal experts say it is unclear if OpenAI's contract actually provides for the restrictions on surveillance and autonomous weapons that the company...

03.03.2026 8

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The Pentagon brands Anthropic’s CEO a ‘liar’ with a ‘God-complex’ as deadline looms over AI use in weapons and surveillance

The Department of War has given Anthropic until 5 p.m. Friday to remove restrictions on how the military can use its AI, or face being labeled a...

27.02.2026 10

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India’s AI Impact Summit closes with the New Delhi Declaration and a $200 billion boost

The Global AI Summit produced a sweeping declaration, billions in investment, and voluntary commitments from tech giants.

23.02.2026 4

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Inside India’s AI Impact Summit: Robot fraud, gridlocked roads, and a no-show from Bill Gates

India's AI Impact Summit promised to reshape the global AI order. It also featured a stolen robot dog, hours of traffic, and a no-show from Bill...

23.02.2026 20

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Bill Gates pulls out of India’s AI summit at the last minute in the latest blow to an event dogged by organizational chaos

The Microsoft founder's abrupt withdrawal, amid renewed scrutiny over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, capped a chaotic few days for an event already...

19.02.2026 20

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai says AI spending still makes sense despite bubble fears

The Google CEO touched down in New Delhi this week with a string of new India investments in tow.

19.02.2026 20

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AI investments surge in India as tech leaders convene for Delhi summit

Blackstone, AMD, and Tata Consultancy Services unveil major infrastructure plans as OpenAI and Anthropic focus on India growth.

17.02.2026 8

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OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude spark coding revolution as developers say they’ve abandoned traditional programming

New releases from OpenAI and Anthropic sparked an existential crisis among coders, but many engineers say they stopped coding months ago.

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OpenAI appears to have violated California’s AI safety law with latest model release, watchdog claims

The company’s newest AI model triggered its own “high” risk classification—but critics say OpenAI didn’t follow through on the safety...

11.02.2026 10

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Anthropic’s Claude triggered a trillion-dollar selloff. A new upgrade could make things worse

Anthropic has unveiled Claude Opus 4.6, an advanced AI model capable of conducting sophisticated professional tasks and working in coordinated teams.

07.02.2026 20

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Anthropic’s newest model excels at finding security vulnerabilities—but raises fresh cybersecurity risks

Claude Opus 4.6 identified over 500 previously unknown 'zero day' vulnerabilities, according to Anthropic security experts

07.02.2026 10

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ChatGPT’s market share is slipping as Google and rivals close the gap, app-tracker data shows

ChatGPT’s app market share has plummeted from 69% to 45% in a year as Google’s Gemini gains ground—potentially complicating OpenAI’s widely...

06.02.2026 20

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Moltbook, the viral social media site for AI bots, contains a ‘lethal trifecta’ for how the agent internet could fail, security researchers say

“If toy agents on a Reddit clone can create this much chaos, what happens when agentic systems manage enterprise infrastructure or financial...

03.02.2026 8

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OpenAI launches Codex app to bring its coding models, which were used to build viral OpenClaw, to more users

OpenAI is locked in an increasingly intense battle with rival Anthropic over tools to create AI agents. The debut of the Codex app comes weeks after...

03.02.2026 10

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A reported OpenAI IPO later this year that will test investor tolerance for the AI boom’s cash bonfire

The ChatGPT maker plans to go public in Q4 2026, according to a news report, but it's still burning billions annually.

30.01.2026 7

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Why Ashley St Clair, MAGA influencer and Elon Musk’s ex, is taking on his AI empire

Conservative influencer Ashley St Clair says Grok generated explicit deepfakes of her—including images from when she was 14. Now she's fighting xAI...

28.01.2026 30

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Anthropic’s head of Claude Code on how the tool won over non-coders—and kickstarted a new era for software engineers

"We might be six to 12 months away from when the model is doing most, maybe all of what software engineers do end-to-end," CEO Dario Amodei says.

24.01.2026 10

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Anthropic rewrites Claude’s guiding principles—and entertains the idea that its AI might have ‘some kind of consciousness or moral status’

The AI company is publishing a new "constitution" that teaches its chatbot how to think, not just what to do.

21.01.2026 10

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A filmmaker deepfaked Sam Altman for his movie about AI. Then things got personal

AI is already remaking filmmaking. One director's experience with a deepfaked Sam Altman shows how strange it can get.

17.01.2026 10

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Anthropic launches Claude Cowork, a file-managing AI agent that could threaten dozens of startups

The new tool brings Claude Code's capabilities to non-technical users, positioning Anthropic to compete with productivity tools like Microsoft...

13.01.2026 30

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U.K. investigation into X over allegedly illegal deepfakes risks igniting a free speech battle with the U.S.

The U.K.'s online safety regulator has opened a formal investigation into X over allegedly illegal deepfakes created by its Grok AI chatbot.

12.01.2026 7

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Lawmakers and victims criticize the choice to limit Grok’s AI image generation to paid users as ‘insulting’ and ‘not effective’

The restriction comes as regulators worldwide threaten enforcement action over Grok's generation of thousands of non-consensual deepfakes per hour.

09.01.2026 20

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Elon Musk restricts Grok’s image tools following a wave of non-consensual deepfakes of women and children

The restriction comes as regulators worldwide threaten enforcement action over Grok's generation of thousands of non-consensual deepfakes per hour.

09.01.2026 10

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As Utah gives the AI power to prescribe some drugs, physicians warn of patient risks

State officials see the pilot as a way to expand healthcare access, but the American Medical Association warns that removing physicians from clinical...

08.01.2026 9

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Google and Character.AI agree to settle lawsuits over teen suicides linked to AI chatbots

The cases include claims that a chatbot engaged a 14-year-old in sexualized conversations before his death and encouraged another teen to harm his...

08.01.2026 9

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Elon Musk ex Ashley St. Clair says she’s considering legal action after xAI produced fake sexualized images of her

Women who found explicit images of themselves online generated by the Grok AI chatbot say they feel violated and dehumanized.

06.01.2026 8

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‘He satisfies a lot of my needs’: Meet the women in love with ChatGPT

The majority of women in these relationships say they feel misunderstood, and that AI bots have helped them during periods of isolation, grief, and...

26.12.2025 50

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Trump administration bars 5 prominent Europeans from the U.S., accusing them of pressuring tech firms to ‘censor’ American speech

The move targets architects of the EU's Digital Services Act and anti-disinformation advocates—triggering diplomatic condemnation from Europe's...

24.12.2025 7

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OpenAI says AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas may never be fully secure from hackers—and experts say the risks are ‘a feature not a bug’

The AI company says attacks on its ChatGPT Atlas browser are "unlikely to ever be fully solved."

23.12.2025 20

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Exclusive: Cursor acquires code review startup Graphite as AI coding competition heats up

The deal will gives Cursor, currently valued at $29 billion, more code review and debugging capabilities

19.12.2025 8

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Lovable hits $6.6 billion valuation as its CEO says it wants to be ‘the last piece of software’ companies ever buy

The Swedish startup raised $330 million as enterprises race to adopt AI-built software.

19.12.2025 7

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Creative workers won’t be replaced by AI—but their roles will change to become ‘directors’ managing AI agents, executives say

AI agents are taking over some routine creative tasks, but executives say the shift will transform workers into "directors" who delegate to AI.

12.12.2025 9

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AI is already taking over managers’ busy work—and it’s forcing companies to reset expectations

As AI agents automate administrative tasks, industry leaders say the role of human managers needs to shift toward coaching and strategy—but most...

10.12.2025 10

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Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi says his company will be worth $1 trillion by doing these three things

Databricks CEO says AI-powered coding, enterprise agents, and rapid app development could propel it into the trillion-dollar club.

10.12.2025 10

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Physical AI robots will automate ‘large sections’ of factory work in the next decade, Arm CEO says

Reprogrammable humanoid robots could level the global manufacturing playing field, Arm CEO Rene Haas said at Fortune Brainstorm AI.

10.12.2025 6

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OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap says ‘code red’ will force the company to focus, as the ChatGPT maker ramps up enterprise push

At Fortune Brainstorm AI, Brad Lightcap said the company is prioritizing ChatGPT improvements and enterprise adoption.

10.12.2025 10

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Cursor developed an internal AI Help Desk that handles 80% of its employees’ support tickets says the $29 billion startup’s CEO

The AI coding-assistant start-up isn't just using artificial intelligence to help developers write code, it's deploying AI across its own internal...

09.12.2025 8

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AI agents are an ‘existential threat’ to secure messaging, Signal’s president Whittaker says

AI agents promise convenience, but Signal’s president warns their deep access to personal data could power a wave of security failures for which the...

27.11.2025 20

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