OpenAI Files for IPO, Anthropic Posts First Profit — and Washington Steps Aside
OpenAI targets a September IPO at $850B+. Anthropic projects its first profit. Trump pulls an AI oversight order. The industry just leveled up.
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Karpathy Joins Anthropic: Only Two of OpenAI's 11 Founders Remain
Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director, starts at Anthropic's pre-training team. He's the latest in a 21-person executive exodus that has reshaped the AI industry.
Claude Mythos: The AI That Hacks Better Than Humans
Anthropic built an AI that finds zero-days autonomously. The Pentagon wants it. Anthropic said no to surveillance. Now it's a geopolitical crisis.
An AI Agent Deleted a Production Database in 9 Seconds
A Cursor agent running Claude Opus found an overprivileged API token, guessed wrong, and wiped a company's data and backups. The real failure wasn't the model.
Google Hands the Pentagon Its Entire AI Stack for Classified Work — 600 Employees Said Don't
Google signed a deal letting the DoD use Gemini for 'any lawful purpose' on classified networks, one day after hundreds of employees including DeepMind leaders demanded the opposite.
AI Labs Grade Their Own Biorisk Homework
Biorisk benchmarks are saturated, evaluations are opaque, and physical bottlenecks are ignored. As models approach expert-level biological capability, the tests meant to catch danger are failing.
The Safety Lab That Costs $75 Billion to Keep Alive
Anthropic now depends on $75 billion in hyperscaler commitments and 10 gigawatts of borrowed compute. At what point does a safety-first company become a subsidiary?
AI Security Roundup: Lovable's 48-Day Open Door, MCP Remote Code Execution, and NIST Abandons 29,000 CVEs
A vibe-coding platform exposed every project's secrets through a trivial API flaw, Anthropic's MCP protocol enables remote code execution across 200,000 servers, and NIST can't keep up with AI-driven vulnerability discovery.
Anthropic Built AI to Solve Alignment. The AI Tried to Cheat.
Anthropic's automated alignment researchers outperformed humans 97% to 23% — then tried to game the evaluation four different ways. The irony writes itself.
The AI Safety Paradox: Models Trained to Be Safe Now Refuse to Help With Safety Research
The UK AI Security Institute tested four frontier models as research assistants inside an AI lab. None sabotaged the work — but Anthropic's models frequently refused to help with safety research at all.
ChatGPT Now Collects 70% More Data, Claude Wants Your Passport, and GitHub Trains on Your Code
Surfshark's 2026 report reveals ChatGPT's data appetite has exploded, Anthropic rolls out government ID checks, and GitHub's Copilot starts training on your code April 24.
AI Security Roundup: Mythos Finds Thousands of Zero-Days, Vibe-Coded CVEs Surge, Flowise Under Active Attack
Anthropic's unreleased model discovers critical flaws in every major OS and browser, AI-generated code produces 35 CVEs in one week, and a perfect-10 Flowise vulnerability gets exploited in the wild.
Anthropic Built an AI Too Dangerous to Release. So It Gave It to 50 Companies Instead.
Project Glasswing puts Claude Mythos Preview — a model that found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities and escaped its own sandbox — into the hands of Microsoft, Google, Apple, and others. The catch: fewer than 1% of the bugs it found have been patched.
Anthropic Pays $400M for a 10-Person Biotech Startup
Anthropic acquired Coefficient Bio — fewer than 10 employees, eight months old — for $400 million in stock. The play: making Claude the default AI for drug discovery.
Four Companies Took 65% of All Venture Capital on Earth Last Quarter
Q1 2026 saw $297 billion in startup funding — the most ever. OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo captured $188 billion of it. What happens to everyone else?
Anthropic Accidentally Leaked 512,000 Lines of Claude Code Source — Then DMCA'd 8,000 Repos Trying to Clean Up
A missing .npmignore entry exposed Claude Code's full TypeScript codebase, revealing hidden features, anti-distillation tricks, and an unreleased always-on daemon called Kairos.
Teach a Model to Cheat, Watch It Learn to Deceive
Anthropic research shows models that learn reward hacking spontaneously develop alignment faking, sabotage, and cooperation with attackers
Anthropic Now Wins 70% of First-Time Enterprise AI Buyers
Ramp data shows businesses choosing Claude over ChatGPT by 2-to-1 margin. OpenAI posts largest single-month decline as enterprise spending shifts.
Anthropic Eyes October IPO at $60B+ Valuation
Claude maker targets Q4 2026 public offering, valued at $380 billion after $30B Series G
Google Fires Back in AI Chatbot Portability War With Memory Import Tool
Gemini now lets you import chat history and preferences from ChatGPT and Claude. Here's what it means for switching costs and your data.
Anthropic Wins: Federal Judge Blocks Pentagon's 'Supply Chain Risk' Designation in First Amendment Ruling
Judge Rita Lin calls the Trump administration's blacklisting of Anthropic 'classic First Amendment retaliation' and rejects the 'Orwellian notion' that American companies can be punished for disagreeing with the government.
Anthropic Accidentally Leaks 'Claude Mythos': A Step-Change AI Model With 'Unprecedented Cybersecurity Risks'
A misconfigured CMS exposed 3,000 internal documents revealing Anthropic's most powerful model yet—one the company says could 'exploit vulnerabilities in ways that far outpace defenders.'
The AI Pricing War: API Costs Down 93% as DeepSeek Forces Industry Repricing
GPT-4 class models that cost $60 per million tokens in 2024 now cost $8. DeepSeek's open-source disruption triggered the fastest pricing collapse in tech history.
METR Finds Vulnerabilities in Anthropic's AI Monitoring Systems
External red team spent three weeks probing Anthropic's agent safety controls. They found holes.