Anthropic Launches Employee Share Sale at $350 Billion Valuation
Anthropic launches a massive employee share sale valued at $350 billion, with between $5 billion and $6 billion lined up for eligible current and former employees to cash out.
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Pentagon Deploys Grok in Classified Systems, Pressures Anthropic to Allow AI for Surveillance and Autonomous Weapons
The Pentagon has deployed Elon Musk's Grok AI in classified military systems and is pressuring Anthropic to allow its Claude model for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, threatening to label the company a 'supply chain risk' if it refuses, while simultaneously fast-tracking deals with Google and OpenAI as potential replacements.
Google and ISTE+ASCD Launch Free AI Literacy Training for All 6 Million U.S. Educators
Google for Education and ISTE+ASCD are launching the largest free AI literacy training initiative of its kind, offering all 6 million U.S. K-12 and higher education educators flexible Gemini AI training modules with micro-credential badges to modernize classroom instruction.
IBM Shares Plummet 13% as Anthropic's Claude Code Threatens Core COBOL Modernization Business
IBM shares plummet 13.2% to $223.35, pushing year-to-date losses past 24%, after Anthropic's Claude Code tool threatens IBM's lucrative COBOL modernization business by automating complex legacy code analysis that previously took human analysts months to complete.
Pentagon Threatens Anthropic With Contract Termination Over AI Safeguard Standoff
The Pentagon threatens to terminate Anthropic's defense contracts after CEO Dario Amodei refuses to lift AI safeguards, as the military demands unrestricted access to Claude for classified systems while Anthropic holds firm against enabling mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.
OpenAI Warns Congress That DeepSeek Is Secretly Stealing US AI Data to Train Its Next-Gen Chatbot
OpenAI warns Congress that Chinese AI rival DeepSeek is secretly stealing outputs from American AI models using obfuscated methods and third-party routers to train its R1 chatbot, raising urgent national security alarms in Washington amid growing concerns over chip export controls and Nvidia's reported technical support to DeepSeek.
AI Tools Are Tackling the COBOL Crisis as Veteran Developers Retire and Billions of Lines of Legacy Code Hang in the Balance
As veteran COBOL developers retire and billions of lines of legacy code power 95% of US ATM transactions, AI tools like Claude Code are now automating the most costly and complex phases of modernization, offering organizations a practical, incremental path forward before a critical skills gap becomes a full-blown crisis.
Trump's $500B Stargate AI Initiative Stalls as OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank Clash Over Data Center Control
Trump's $500B Stargate AI initiative is stalling as OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank clash over data center ownership, forcing a compromise where SoftBank owns a Texas facility while OpenAI controls its design — leaving the ambitious project far short of its original vision.
DeepSeek's New Sparse Attention System Tackles AI Memory Bottleneck With Smarter Token Selection
DeepSeek unveils a powerful new sparse attention system in DeepSeek-V3.2 that uses a trained 'lightning indexer' to intelligently select the most relevant tokens, directly tackling the memory bottleneck slowing down long-context AI inference without sacrificing accuracy.
MPA Sends First-Ever Cease-and-Desist to ByteDance Over AI Video Generator's Alleged Mass Copyright Infringement
The Motion Picture Association fires its first-ever cease-and-desist at ByteDance, accusing the TikTok parent of deliberately training its AI video generator Seedance 2.0 on copyrighted films and shows without permission, with Disney, Warner Bros., Netflix, Paramount, and Sony all joining the legal assault as ByteDance insists it respects intellectual property …