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Anthropic files for IPO before OpenAI in blockbuster AI market showdown
AI giant Anthropic has confidentially filed for a US initial public offering, the company said on Monday, edging ahead of rival OpenAI in a closely watched race to reach public markets.
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The Thai lie: viral "drag queen drug bust" turns out to be AI-generated fake
The story of a team of cops dressed up as drag queens for a drug raid has been uncovered as an AI-generated hoax, Thai police have admitted, highlighting the difficulty media face when "disinformation" comes from an official source.
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OpenAI opens GPT-5.5 Cyber to British banks amid Mythos access battle
OpenAI has offered 9 major UK banks access to its cybersecurity-focused GPT-5.5 Cyber model, as lenders remain unable to test their systems using Anthropic’s rival Claude Mythos despite concerns about the security of aging banking code.
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Claude reportedly bills a client $500M for one month of AI use
As more companies begin to question the cost-benefit ratio of using AI, this one has a much bigger problem to deal with. A report claims that the company may have been charged $500 million for one month of Anthropic’s Claude.
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South Korea approves AI assistant with strict privacy rules as Europe delays AI laws
Even as Europe wrestles with AI regulation, South Korea has approved an AI assistant from Naver that can use years of user activity to personalize its responses, as long as the company follows a strict set of privacy rules.
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German tax authority may train AI on citizens’ unaltered data
The German government is mulling allowing new AI systems to be trained on unaltered citizens’ data, despite it currently being prohibited by European privacy regulations.
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SoftBank announces AI investment of up to €75B in French data centers
SoftBank Group, a Japanese international investment holding company, is willing to invest up to €75 billion to develop and operate 5GW of AI data center capacity in France.
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AI fraud is the export-control loophole that Washington missed
Washington has spent 2 years arguing over chips and export policy, but the bigger vulnerability is account creation. Advanced AI systems struggle to tell a legitimate operator from a coordinated swarm, or a human from an automated agent, and the gap has turned AI fraud from a consumer protection issue into a national security problem.
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YouTube finally gets serious about cracking down on AI slop
Google-owned YouTube finally seems to be getting serious about AI slop on its platform. A couple of updates don’t seem like a lot, but the changes are actually pretty significant.
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UK plans AI age checks for asylum seekers
The UK’s Home Office will start using an AI tool to estimate the age of asylum seekers claiming to be children from next year.
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Microsoft will unveil new homegrown AI models next week
Microsoft will unveil a suite of new homegrown AI models next week at its annual "Build" conference for developers in San Francisco, including a coding model to boost the usage of its GitHub Copilot tool, the Information reported on Thursday.
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Mistral’s chatbot Le Chat turns into an AI agent called Vibe
Mistral AI has rebranded its chatbot, Le Chat, as Vibe, an AI agent that codes and performs day-to-day tasks.
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AI agent steals database, makes real-time hacking decisions in less than an hour
Researchers claim to have captured one of the clearest examples yet of an AI agent independently steering a cyberattack as an LLM harvested credentials, accessed cloud services and stole an internal database in less than 60 minutes.
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Anthropic launches upgraded Claude Opus 4.8 and will roll out powerful Mythos model to the public
Anthropic on Thursday said it is launching an upgraded Claude Opus 4.8 model even as it works to release its powerful, market-moving Mythos model to all customers in the coming weeks.
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Your AI assistant is breaking the law up to 90% of the time
None of the popular and mainstream AI models fully complies with Europe’s privacy and data protection legislation, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the AI Act.
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The European cities beating major hubs at AI innovation aren't the ones you'd expect
Europe's AI powerhouses aren't in Paris, Warsaw, or Madrid. Smaller cities are producing more specialized and influential AI research than major metropolitan hubs, according to a new study that suggests the EU is pouring investment into all the wrong places.
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Regulation-dodging companies push "responsible AI," but research shows otherwise
The big AI companies regularly tout the growing capability of their wares. But they also want the power to chart their own course free from regulation.
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Erin Brockovich launches US data center map: “I’m watching you”
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has introduced a detailed map tracking the proliferation of data centers across the US.
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California courts are secretly testing AI to help decide criminal cases, including racial bias appeal
California’s largest courts are testing an AI tool to help decide criminal cases, including racial bias appeals. The court’s own judges warn that AI will “dehumanize justice” and increase the frequency of AI hallucinating legal citations.
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AI threatens financial stability as Mythos-style models accelerate cyberattacks, Dutch supervisors warn
Artificial intelligence (AI) is causing a structural shift in the cyber threat landscape and poses a significant risk to financial stability, Dutch regulators have warned. They point out that AI models compress attack timelines from weeks to hours and generate new vulnerabilities much faster than organizations can patch them.
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