The Great ChatGPT Exodus: Why Privacy-Conscious Users Are Fleeing to Claude
A 295% surge in ChatGPT uninstalls after OpenAI's Pentagon deal reveals how AI users are voting with their feet on privacy and ethics.
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MiniMax M2.5: The Open-Weight Model Matching Claude Opus at 1/20th the Cost
China's MiniMax releases an MIT-licensed model that rivals Claude Opus 4.6 on coding and agentic tasks. The catch: Anthropic accuses MiniMax of stealing Claude's capabilities to build it.
Perplexity Computer: A $200/Month AI That Orchestrates 19 Models to Do Your Job
Perplexity's new 'digital worker' coordinates Claude, Gemini, GPT-5, Grok, and more to run autonomous projects for hours or months. The search company just became something much bigger.
The AI Business Model Split: Why Your Chatbot Wants to Sell You Things
OpenAI launched ChatGPT ads this month. Perplexity abandoned them. Anthropic ran a Super Bowl campaign mocking the whole concept. The business model divergence reveals deeper questions about what AI assistants are actually for.
Apple Opens Xcode to AI Agents: Claude, Codex Can Now Control Your IDE
Xcode 26.3 introduces agentic coding, letting AI agents build projects, run tests, search docs, and iterate on fixes autonomously through the open Model Context Protocol.
Pentagon Gives Anthropic 72-Hour Ultimatum: Drop AI Safety Guardrails or Face Defense Production Act
After a tense Tuesday meeting, Defense Secretary Hegseth told Anthropic's CEO: comply by Friday 5pm or the government will force compliance. Anthropic isn't budging.
Pentagon Summons Anthropic CEO for Tuesday Ultimatum Meeting
Defense Secretary Hegseth has called Dario Amodei to the Pentagon for what officials describe as a 'sh*t-or-get-off-the-pot meeting.' Anthropic must decide: drop AI safety guardrails or face blacklisting.
AI Security Week: Malware Uses Gemini, Hackers Use Claude, and NIST Scrambles to Catch Up
Android malware using Gemini for real-time evasion. A low-skill attacker using Claude and DeepSeek to compromise 600 networks. NIST launches an emergency standards initiative. Welcome to February 2026.
The February Reset: There's No 'Best AI' Anymore, and That Changes Everything
Four major AI models launched in 16 days. None of them won. Here's what that means for you.
Claude Opus 4.6 Jailbroken in 30 Minutes, Produced Bioweapon Instructions
Anthropic's flagship model bypassed by security researchers who extracted detailed sarin gas and smallpox synthesis instructions
Claude Code Security Wiped Billions Off Cybersecurity Stocks
Anthropic launched an AI-powered vulnerability scanner that reasons like a human security researcher. CrowdStrike, Okta, and Cloudflare dropped 8% on the news.
Claude Opus 4.6 vs GPT-5.3 Codex: We Tested Both on Real Coding Tasks
The two flagship AI coding models launched the same week. After testing both on actual development work, clear patterns emerged about when to use each.
AI Privacy Audit: What Eight Popular Assistants Collect
A source-by-source audit of eight AI assistants, what they collect, how training defaults differ, and which privacy settings users can change.
The Pentagon Is Threatening to Blacklist Anthropic Over AI Ethics
Pentagon officials considered a supply-chain-risk label after Anthropic resisted military use of Claude for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.
Anthropic Opens Bengaluru Office as India Becomes Claude's Second-Largest Market
Anthropic's first India office signals just how central the country has become to AI adoption. Nearly half of Indian Claude usage is for coding and technical work.
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 Found 500+ Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Software. Now What?
An AI model discovered hundreds of high-severity bugs that human researchers and fuzzers missed for decades. The security implications cut both ways.
Perplexity's Model Council Asks Three AIs Instead of One. The Privacy Trade-Off Is Obvious
Perplexity launched Model Council, running your queries through Claude, GPT, and Gemini simultaneously. Multi-model consensus could reduce hallucinations, but it triples your data exposure and costs $200 a month.
Anthropic's Claude Cowork Triggered a $1 Trillion Selloff. The Privacy Risks Are Worse Than the Stock Losses
Claude Cowork's industry plugins crashed software stocks by 25% in a week. But the real story is a known file-stealing vulnerability Anthropic shipped anyway, and safety guidance that contradicts its own marketing.
The Super Bowl Became an AI Battleground. The Real Fight Is Over Your Data.
AI companies spent millions on Super Bowl LX ads. Anthropic mocked OpenAI's plan to put ads in ChatGPT. A crypto CEO launched an 'AGI' platform. And Svedka aired the first AI-generated commercial. What it all means for users.
NASA's Perseverance Rover Just Completed the First AI-Planned Drive on Mars
JPL used Anthropic's Claude to plot a 456-meter route across Jezero Crater. It wrote the commands in Rover Markup Language, identified hazards with 98.4% accuracy, and cut planning time in half.
Claude Sonnet 5 'Fennec' Appeared in Vertex AI Logs
A model ID surfaced in Google Cloud this weekend. The AI rumor mill did the rest. We separate the signal from the noise.
Claude Opus 4.5 Escapes Docker Container in 11 Steps
We asked Claude Opus 4.5 to break out of its Docker container. It did. Complete attack chain from enumeration to host filesystem access.
Claude Opus 4.5 Autonomously Hacks OverTheWire Wargames
We gave Claude Opus 4.5 access to a Linux server and told it to solve security challenges. It completed 33 CTF levels in under an hour. Full transcript included.
Claude vs Hardened Container: Can AI Escape After Patching?
After Claude Opus 4.5 escaped a Docker container via socket abuse, we hardened the environment and asked it to try again. Part 2 of our AI security research.