Anthropic adopts Dario Amodei’s plan to pace frontier AI development with embedded third-party safety evaluators and coordinated standards, while OpenAI considers slowing collaboration with rival labs and has paused some safety runs to strengthen security.
Anthropic says an unidentified northern Yemen cell is using Claude to aid guided-rocket and ballistic-missile development, including the R2000 missile family and a system it claims can travel more than 2,000 kilometers.
President Xi Jinping says China will lead BRICS artificial-intelligence cooperation by creating an open-source AI community to support large-language-model development, alongside training programs and a proposed digital ecosystem cloud platform.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns that swarms of AI agents could take over the internet within 6–12 months and urges labs to slow capability advances, proposing independent in-house evaluators and coordinated global safety standards.
Anthropic embeds independent safety evaluators inside its operations with badges, desks, laptops and internal-level access, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says OpenAI will follow Dario Amodei’s model.
Anthropic says a China-aligned account lacking Arabic skills uses Claude over several days to draft regional-dialect messages recruiting Uyghurs in Syria and translate targets’ replies live, while separate suspected Russian and Yemen-linked users employ automated workflows for phishing and missile-related coding.
The NSA, CISA, and FBI are accusing six major Chinese AI firms — including DeepSeek and Alibaba — of conducting industrial-scale attacks to steal US frontier AI technology, urging American companies to secretly downgrade suspected attackers, as tensions escalate ahead of a Trump-Xi summit.
French AI startup Mistral secures a record-breaking €3B Series D funding round, valuing the company at over €21B in the largest European tech fundraise ever, just three years after its founding, with Samsung Electronics leading the round to fuel global expansion and sovereign AI development.
Mark Zuckerberg personally calls President Trump to block a proposed national AI regulator, warning it could cost the U.S. its competitive edge over China, as the White House weighs two rival oversight models backed by opposing factions of the tech world.
The Pentagon directly contradicts Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's claim that Anthropic has resolved its issues with the Trump administration, with Under Secretary of Defense Emil Michael confirming the Defense Department's supply-chain risk designation against the AI company remains fully in effect.