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The US Department of War's designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk is having the inverse effect of driving up demand for Claude, which has been breaking daily signup records in every country where it's available. AppFigures data shows Claude topping App Store charts in dozens of countries including the US and Canada.
In a scathing 1,600-word memo to employees, CEO Dario Amodei suggested the company's relationship with the government soured because, unlike OpenAI and its executives, "we haven't donated to Trump" and "we haven't given dictator-style praise."
OpenAI launched Codex Security, a new research preview AI agent focused on identifying and fixing app security issues. The Codex Open Source Fund now includes conditional access to Codex Security for open source developers with ChatGPT Pro subscriptions.
The feature was expected to launch this quarter, but OpenAI says it is pushing the release to focus on "gains in intelligence, personality improvements, personalization, and making the experience more proactive" for a broader user base.
In an effort to appease antitrust regulators from the European Commission, Meta says it will support "general purpose AI chatbots" via the WhatsApp Business API in Europe "for a fee" for the next 12 months — reversing its previous ban on third-party AI competitors.
A non-profit called Open Knowledge Association used AI to translate Wikipedia articles, leading to "hallucinations" that included incorrect, fabricated, replaced, and unrelated citations. Wikipedia editors are now placing restrictions — including bans — on OKA translators whose contributions contain too many errors.
Prompted by recent GitHub outages, OpenAI is in the early stages of building its own code repository platform — putting the ChatGPT creator in direct competition with Microsoft, a company that holds a significant ownership stake in OpenAI.
Companies that do business with the US military are pivoting away from Anthropic's AI after the Pentagon designated it a "supply chain risk." Defense companies say they're abandoning Claude "out of an abundance of caution" even before any legal challenge is resolved.
A fresh ChatGPT update improves the depth and relevance of cited sources when users perform web searches through the model, giving richer inline context alongside answers. The rollout marks another step in OpenAI's effort to compete with traditional search engines.
Three California community colleges are each paying up to $500,000 annually for AI chatbots meant to help students with financial aid and admissions. According to CalMatters, the bots answer general questions correctly but struggle with specifics — one couldn't even name its own institution's president.
Focus Features' new documentary on generative AI was granted unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to leading labs, but critics say the film fails to grapple meaningfully with the ethical and societal dimensions of AI-generated imagery and media. A cautionary tale about access journalism in the AI age.
A new analysis finds that the proliferation of AI-generated photos and videos — alongside viral misinformation and even misidentified video-game clips — is fundamentally undermining the public's ability to trust visual media online, with significant implications for journalism and democracy.
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