Anthropic lifts export restrictions on its Claude AI models, rolls out sweeping new safety measures including a 24/7 jailbreak monitoring team, and deepens US government ties as CEO Dario Amodei urges Congress to pass AI safety legislation before adversaries like China can exploit weaker guardrails.
The US Commerce Department lifts export controls on Anthropic's AI models after the company agrees to government safety protocols, while simultaneously restricting OpenAI's GPT-5.6 launch over national security concerns, marking a landmark shift in how Washington regulates powerful AI technology.
Google's Gemini Omni Flash leads a fiercely competitive Text-to-Video AI leaderboard with a top score of 1527, but Chinese tech giants ByteDance and Alibaba are closing the gap fast, claiming second and third place respectively among 41 competing models.
OpenAI appoints former Uber India president Prabhjeet Singh as its first-ever India managing director, signaling a major push into its second-largest global market as competition with rivals like Anthropic heats up.
The Trump administration moves to lift restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model after a 15-day government-ordered shutdown, with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick signaling progress on security concerns and limited access to cybersecurity model Mythos 5 being restored, as Anthropic and OpenAI push for a formal, transparent AI review process.
Anthropic accuses Chinese tech giant Alibaba of orchestrating a massive scheme using thousands of fake accounts to illegally access its Claude AI model, targeting advanced capabilities like software engineering and agentic reasoning, calling it the largest known attempt by a Chinese company to exploit a top US AI lab.
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of orchestrating the largest known AI distillation attack in history, using 28.8 million exchanges across 25,000 fraudulent accounts to illicitly steal its AI capabilities, and is now urging the U.S. Senate to take coordinated action against the threat.
The US bans foreign access to Anthropic's AI models Mythos and Fable, sparking international backlash as French President Macron warns of 'non-cooperation among democracies,' while critics question whether Anthropic's own heavy use of AI risk language — nearly eight times more than OpenAI — helped justify the sweeping export restrictions.
Tencent is testing an AI assistant called Xiaowei inside WeChat, giving it a massive edge over rivals by embedding task-completing AI capabilities directly into a platform used by over 1.4 billion people.
Alibaba Cloud surges to No. 2 globally in AI video generation with its newly launched HappyHorse 1.1 model, capitalizing on a rapidly contracting market as OpenAI shuts down Sora and ByteDance freezes its rival product, though geopolitical tensions and a Pentagon military designation threaten to limit Western enterprise adoption.