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Will the Pentagon’s Anthropic controversy scare startups away from defense work?
In just over a week, negotiations over the Pentagon’s use of Anthropic’s Claude technology fell through, the Trump…
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A roadmap for AI, if anyone will listen
While Washington’s breakup with Anthropic exposed the complete lack of any coherent rules governing artificial intelligence, a bipartisan…
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OpenAI robotics lead Caitlin Kalinowski quits in response to Pentagon deal
Hardware executive Caitlin Kalinowski announced today that in response to OpenAI’s controversial agreement with the Department of Defense,…
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OpenAI delays ChatGPT’s ‘adult mode’ again
OpenAI has delayed the launch of “adult mode,” a ChatGPT feature that will give verified adult users access…
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Anthropic’s Pentagon deal is a cautionary tale for startups chasing federal contracts
The Pentagon has officially designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk after the two failed to agree on how much control the military should…
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OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with Pro and Thinking versions
On Thursday, OpenAI released GPT-5.4, a new foundation model billed as “our most capable and efficient frontier model…
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AWS launches a new AI agent platform specifically for healthcare
Amazon Web Services announced Thursday the launch of Amazon Connect Health. This AI agent-powered platform is meant to…
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Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic, but his explanation raises more questions than it answers
At the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom conference in downtown San Francisco Wednesday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang…
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies,’ report says
Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei is not happy — perhaps predictably so — with OpenAI chief Sam…
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One startup’s pitch to provide more reliable AI answers: crowdsource the chatbots
John Davie wanted Buyers Edge Platform, the hospitality procurement enterprise he founded and still leads, to benefit from…