Flapping Airplanes on the future of AI: ‘We want to try really radically different things’
"We're exploring a different set of tradeoffs."
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Anthropic’s Claude found 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox over two weeks
In a recent security partnership with Mozilla, Anthropic found 22 separate vulnerabilities in Firefox — 14 of them classified as "high-severity."
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OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with Pro and Thinking versions
GPT-5.4 is billed as "our most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work."
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Cursor is rolling out a new kind of agentic coding tool
Called Automations, the new system gives users a way to automatically launch agents within their coding environment, triggered by a new addition to the codebase, …
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The US military is still using Claude — but defense-tech clients are fleeing
As the U.S. continues its aerial attack on Iran, Anthropic models are being used for many targeting decisions.
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No one has a good plan for how AI companies should work with the government
As OpenAI transitions from a wildly successful consumer startup into a piece of national security infrastructure, the company seems unequipped to manage its new responsibilities.
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The billion-dollar infrastructure deals powering the AI boom
Here's everything we know about the biggest AI infrastructure projects, including major spending from Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI.
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Pentagon moves to designate Anthropic as a supply-chain risk
"We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again," the president wrote in the post.
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OpenAI raises $110B in one of the largest private funding rounds in history
The new funding consists of a $50 billion investment from Amazon as well as $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, against a $730 billion …
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Trace raises $3M to solve the AI agent adoption problem in enterprise
Trace is launching with $3 million in seed funding, including investment from Y Combinator, Zeno Ventures, Transpose Platform Management, Goodwater Capital, Formosa Capital, and WeFunder.
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Nvidia has another record quarter amid record capex spends
"The demand for tokens in the world has gone completely exponential," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said about the company's earnings.
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Anthropic launches new push for enterprise agents with plug-ins for finance, engineering, and design
It's a major opportunity to grow Anthropic’s enterprise client base — and a significant threat to SaaS products currently performing those functions.
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