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China's Blueprint to Own the Future
China has a plan to own the future — and it's already running. Robots, open-source AI, and a hard deadline of 2030. Here's what Beijing's Five-Year Plan actually means for the rest of the world.
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Iran Is Targeting Data Centers. Silicon Valley Should Be Worried
Three drone strikes. Two data centers offline. One very expensive warning to Silicon Valley: the Gulf is no longer safe ground for the infrastructure of the future.
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Iran Strikes Amazon's Data Centers -- and Signals a New Kind of War
Drone attacks on AWS facilities in the UAE and Bahrain are the first deliberate wartime strikes on cloud infrastructure -- and experts warn they won't be the last.
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US Military Reportedly Used Claude in Iran Strikes Despite Trump's Ban
Trump denounces Anthropic as a 'Radical Left AI company' while the Pentagon scrambles to detach from deeply embedded technology
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The Book With No Words
When 10,000 authors want to make a point, sometimes the loudest statement is silence. Don't Steal This Book — a volume whose pages contain nothing but a list of names — arrived at the London Book Fair this week as a stark protest against AI companies training their models on writers' work without permission or payment.
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Anthropic's Battle With the Pentagon
Anthropic has found itself, reluctantly, as one of the only checks on the military's expanding AI ambitions — a role no private company was built to play
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Sam Altman Admits OpenAI Has No Control Over Pentagon's AI Use
Sam Altman admitted to employees that OpenAI has no control over how the Pentagon uses its AI in military operations, saying "you do not get to make operational decisions" about strikes or invasions. The admission comes as the Pentagon pressures AI companies to remove safety guardrails for broader military applications. Rival company Anthropic recently refused a deal with the Pentagon over ethical concerns and was labeled a "supply-chain risk" by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, while OpenAI quickly partnered with the military instead.
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OpenAI's "Sloppy" Pentagon Deal Sparks Surveillance Fears and User Revolt
OpenAI is facing a user revolt after hastily striking a deal to supply AI to the US Department of War, a move its own CEO admitted looked "opportunistic and sloppy." The contract, signed immediately after the Pentagon dropped previous contractor Anthropic, sparked fears that ChatGPT's technology could be used for domestic mass surveillance. Despite OpenAI's insistence that the deal included strict guardrails, critics drew parallels to the Snowden scandal, triggering a "delete ChatGPT" campaign on social media.
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Burger King Wants Its Staff to Say Please. It's Hired AI to Make Sure They Do
When Burger King's new AI system "Patty" detects that an employee forgot to say "please," a manager will know. When a bathroom needs cleaning, Patty will know that too. In the fast-food industry's latest experiment with artificial intelligence, the question isn't just whether your order is accurate — it's whether the person taking it sounds friendly enough to satisfy an algorithm.
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OpenAI to work with Pentagon after Anthropic dropped by Trump over company’s ethics concerns
How a standoff between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon is forcing every major AI company to declare what its technology will — and won't — be used for.
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One Prompt, Four Personalities: Why AI Can’t Agree on Design
We asked ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and DeepSeek the exact same question: “How should we redesign the 'Add to Cart' flow to reduce friction for mobile users?” If they are all "intelligent," why do they speak different languages? The answer lies in their DNA.
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Meta Bets Big on AMD in $60bn AI Chip Deal
Meta has agreed to a sweeping $60bn, five-year deal with Advanced Micro Devices, acquiring chips and a 10% stake in the company as it doubles down on AI — the latest sign that the industry's hunger for processing power is only growing stronger.
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The AI Doomsday Scenario Rattling Wall Street
Citrini Research's viral "scenario" imagines AI agents dismantling the US economy piece by piece, from wiping out white-collar jobs to triggering a mortgage crisis and a 57% stock market crash by 2028. Speculative as it is, markets are already reacting — and that may be the most unsettling part of all.
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Amazon AI Outage Raises Concerns Over Automation Risks in AWS Cloud Infrastructure
Amazon’s push toward AI-driven efficiency has come under scrutiny after reports that an internal outage at Amazon Web Services was triggered by one of its own AI agents. While the company attributes the disruption to user misconfiguration rather than artificial intelligence itself, experts warn that autonomous systems can act without fully grasping broader consequences, raising fresh concerns about the risks of replacing human oversight with automation.
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OpenAI Banned Account Later Linked to One of Canada’s Deadliest School Shootings
OpenAI revealed it had flagged and later banned the account of an individual months before he carried out one of Canada’s deadliest school shootings. While the activity raised concerns, it did not meet the threshold for referral to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at the time.
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Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.6 — Its Most Capable Model Yet
Anthropic's new flagship AI model tops industry benchmarks for coding, reasoning, and long-context tasks — and now features a 1 million token context window in beta.
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NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra Cuts AI Inference Costs Up to 35×, Boosts Agentic AI Performance by 50×
New performance data shows that NVIDIA’s next-generation Blackwell Ultra platform delivers up to 50× higher throughput and up to 35× lower cost per token for agentic AI workloads compared with the previous Hopper generation — enabling significantly faster, more economically scalable real-time coding assistants and autonomous AI agents.