Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.7 with major upgrades in coding, image analysis, and creative tasks, but its most powerful model yet — Mythos — remains locked behind closed doors, available only to elite partners like Nvidia, Google, Apple, and Microsoft.
OpenAI expands its cybersecurity AI program, granting thousands of verified defenders access to a powerful, less-restricted GPT model capable of binary reverse engineering, directly challenging Anthropic's more cautious, limited-access approach with Claude Mythos — sparking debate over the trade-offs between accessibility and safety in AI-powered cybersecurity.
Anthropic briefs the Trump administration on its new Mythos AI model, deemed too dangerous for public release due to its powerful cybersecurity capabilities, as co-founder Jack Clark emphasizes government transparency on advanced AI is critical for national security.
Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing over Illinois AI liability bill SB 3444, with Anthropic opposing it as a dangerous shield protecting companies from accountability in mass casualty events, while OpenAI supports it as a harmonized safety framework — and Governor JB Pritzker signals he may side with skeptics.
Claude Mythos Preview becomes the first AI to complete a complex 32-step corporate network attack simulation, succeeding 3 out of 10 attempts and achieving a 73% success rate on expert-level cybersecurity challenges that no AI could previously solve, alarming security experts who urge organizations to strengthen basic cyber defenses immediately.
Pioneering AI futurist Ray Kurzweil doubles down on his 1999 prediction that AGI will arrive by 2029, declaring early signs are already emerging and that fierce AI competition will transform nearly every industry, making the next decade 'absolutely fantastic' for human knowledge.
AI adoption soars to 88% and safety incidents surge to 362 as Stanford's HAI 2026 report exposes a deepening trust crisis, with 73% of AI experts optimistic while only 23% of the public shares their confidence.
OpenAI is backing an Illinois bill that would protect AI companies from liability for mass casualty events caused by their models, drawing fierce backlash from policy experts and 90% of Illinois residents who oppose such exemptions.
Anthropic, the $380 billion AI company behind Claude, sparks controversy after consulting Christian leaders to help build a morally sound chatbot, raising urgent questions about religious exclusivity and whether AI could ever be considered a 'child of God.'
A federal appeals court upholds the Pentagon's blacklisting of AI company Anthropic, keeping it barred from defense contracts after negotiations collapsed over the DOD's demand for unrestricted model access and Anthropic's refusal to allow its Claude AI in autonomous weapons or domestic mass surveillance systems.