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Ukraine built compact AI small enough to run on a five-hundred-dollar drone, and it's beating the electronic warfare systems Russia spent years developing. But the engineering story leads somewhere harder: a four-minute window on final approach where no human is deciding anything — and an official policy that says that window doesn't exist. Jet West walks through both claims, the sourcing behind t...

In June, the US Commerce Department issued a same-day export-control order against two of Anthropic's frontier models — a move that appears to be unprecedented for a commercial language model. Anthropic's own post-mortem reveals the triggering capability was already present across virtually every major competing model. This episode examines what the incident actually established about government a...

Anthropic pulled its two most advanced AI models — Mythos and Fable 5 — offline Friday rather than comply with a White House directive restricting them to U.S. citizens only, and the official explanation for why that directive happened depends entirely on who you ask: the administration says Anthropic refused to fix a jailbreak; Anthropic says Chinese access was never even raised in those conversa...

Anthropic just launched Claude Fable 5 — a public release of the same underlying model as Mythos 5, held back from public access until today by a classifier layer that redirects sensitive queries to the older Opus 4.8 rather than refusing them outright. Last week, an Anthropic blog post said the safety measures needed for a broad Mythos-class release had "not yet" been developed; today the company...

Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, and Mustafa Suleyman co-signed a letter to Congress this week asking for mandatory screening on synthetic DNA orders — citing evidence that AI systems now outperform PhD-level virologists on lab procedure questions. What the letter frames as a fresh bipartisan opportunity has a quieter backstory: the Biden administration's nucleic acid screening framework...

Anthropic just dropped a new flagship model 41 days after the last one, which is not a cadence, it is a correction, and the gap between those two sentences is the whole story. Opus 4.8 genuinely leads the field on SWE-Bench Pro at 69.2% versus GPT-5.5's 58.6%, and the codebase migration claim is the most operationally significant thing any AI lab has shipped this year if it holds in production. Bu...

A nonprofit posted a YouTube video about a Georgia data center's noise and water use, no threats, no calls to action, and it ended up in federal intelligence files next to murder investigations. WIRED obtained over a thousand pages of unpublished DHS, FBI, and fusion center reports showing a surveillance category called "anti-tech violent extremism" that has no published definition, no published t...

Anthropic's AI model Claude Mythos Preview just cracked a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD and broke Apple's brand-new M5 hardware security feature in five days flat — the one Apple spent five years and billions building. Over 99% of what Mythos has found so far is still unpatched, and that number is not a glitch in the data, that is the entire story. The patching backlog was already a disaster before t...

OpenAI's CFO said the company was not ready to go public in 2026, and seven days later, multiple outlets reported it is preparing to file for an IPO anyway. In the window between those two events, a headline surfaced about OpenAI making billions by promising future purchases from suppliers, which is exactly the kind of move that makes a balance sheet look healthier right before investors see it. S...

Google built a video AI that can already generate long-form clips and then deliberately shipped it capped at 10 seconds, not because the model can't do more, but because the pricing, compute costs, and liability exposure around longer video aren't figured out yet. The "most users won't want longer videos" explanation sounds like product strategy, but it's really a placeholder while Google works ou...

Elon Musk's entire $38 million was gone by 2020, spent before he even had legal standing to sue, and the deadline to file ran out in August 2021 — he filed in 2024. His own board rep signed off on the exact deal structure he says blindsided him, his own advisers can't name a single condition he claims was violated, and the judge has already said if the jury finds the claims are time-barred, the wh...

Greg Brockman just testified under oath that his OpenAI stake is worth thirty billion dollars — and he never invested a single dollar of his own money to get it. That number alone should be the headline, but everyone is too busy covering the Musk-versus-Altman drama to notice that the actual bombshells are coming from Altman's own former colleagues, who testified he lied to the board, manipulated...

Apple's entire Mac mini lineup just vanished worldwide — not backordered, completely gone — and some remaining Mac Studio models won't ship until August with delivery times hitting 18 weeks. The $599 base model that was perfect for running AI disappeared along with every 256GB configuration, while Apple simultaneously discontinued the 512GB RAM Mac Studio entirely and hiked prices 25% before pulli...

Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and Sam Altman for 134 billion dollars, claiming they took his 38 million in donations to build a nonprofit saving humanity from AI risks, then secretly pivoted into a 500-billion-dollar for-profit tied to Microsoft. A federal judge just refused to dismiss the case and ruled the trial starts April 27th in Oakland, where a jury will decide if you can legally promise to be...

SpaceX just dropped a deal to either buy AI coding startup Cursor for sixty billion dollars or pay ten billion just to work together—and that ten billion is basically a breakup fee if they bail. Cursor went from a 2.5 billion valuation in January to nearly 30 billion by November, then canceled their next fundraising round when SpaceX showed up with this absurd offer. The whole thing reeks of despe...

Anthropic just released Claude Opus 4.7, and Adobe and Figma's stocks immediately dropped over 2 percent because this thing can apparently handle your hardest coding and design work without supervision—oh, and it can check its own homework before reporting back. The wild part is they're keeping an even scarier version called Claude Mythos locked down because it completed 3 out of 10 attempts at a...

Anthropic just released data showing 75 percent of programmer tasks are being handled by AI right now, yet programmer unemployment hasn't budged at all. Meanwhile bartenders and mechanics have zero automation exposure, and the only group seeing real impact is workers aged 22 to 25 trying to break into professional jobs, whose hiring rates dropped 14 percent after ChatGPT launched. The weirdest par...

The Pentagon just gave Anthropic until Friday to hand over Claude AI with all safety restrictions removed—no limits on mass surveillance or autonomous weapons—or face contract cancellation and potential forced handover under the Defense Production Act. Anthropic's CEO said no to $200 million, refusing to strip protections against mass surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous killing, while t...

The Pentagon just gave AI company Anthropic until Friday to remove safeguards preventing autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of Americans, threatening to weaponize the Defense Production Act if they refuse. Anthropic was literally founded by OpenAI defectors who wanted to build safer AI, and now they're the only company refusing to cave while Elon Musk's Grok, OpenAI, Meta and Google all agre...

Instagram's CEO just admitted the platform lost the war against AI slop and says the only solution left is making creators cryptographically fingerprint their content to prove it's real—basically giving up on detecting fakes and forcing humans to prove they're human instead. His actual advice to creators right now is to make your content deliberately uglier and more imperfect because polish has be...

Meta just dropped two billion dollars on Manus, a Beijing-founded AI company that hit a hundred million in revenue within months and was being investigated by the US Treasury Department for taking American VC money. The deal cuts all Chinese ownership and shuts down China operations, but here's the wild part: nobody's talking about what happened to that federal investigation or whether this is bas...

SoftBank just dropped 4 billion dollars on DigitalBridge to build infrastructure for "Artificial Super Intelligence" while tech stocks are tanking and investors are literally questioning if AI investments will ever make money back. Meanwhile silver doubled this year then crashed 8.7% in one day because the CME randomly hiked margin requirements, and nobody can explain why precious metals went abso...

Seven out of ten American teens are chatting with AI daily, with 75% on YouTube and 20% almost constantly scrolling TikTok. It’s wild—teens aren’t just using AI for homework but for emotional support and even romance, pushing tech like ChatGPT into full-on BFF territory. Meanwhile, socioeconomic and political divides are splitting app habits, making it clear this is more than just screen time—it’s...

Bill Gates' daughter Phoebe and her Stanford roommate Sophia just raised $30 million for Phia, an AI shopping assistant crushing resale chaos with data from 350 million items across 150 platforms. Their secret sauce? Cutting return rates in half and slashing carbon footprints by 80%, all while celebrity investors like Hailey Bieber are stress-testing it. This isn’t just another AI hype—it's a game...

China’s humanoid robot boom just hit a major reality check: with 150 companies racing to build bots that can throw punches or run ultra-marathons, officials are warning this hype could spark another costly bubble. Meanwhile, Tesla’s Optimus hype is fueling FOMO, but these flashy robots still don’t solve real problems—so maybe it’s time to ask if we’re building tech just for show.