Anthropic Claims Pentagon Feud Could Cost It Billions

Anthropic executives allege that current customers and prospective ones have been demanding new terms and even backing out of negotiations since the US Department of…

Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over Supply-Chain Risk Designation

Anthropic filed a federal lawsuit against the US Department of Defense and other federal agencies on Monday, challenging its designation of the AI company as…

Meta and Other Tech Companies Ban OpenClaw Over Cybersecurity Concerns

Last month, Jason Grad issued a late-night warning to the 20 employees at his tech startup. “You’ve likely seen Clawdbot trending on X/LinkedIn. While cool,…

No Company Has Admitted to Replacing Workers With AI in New York

Over 160 companies in New York state have filed notices of mass layoffs since last March. None—in a group that includes Amazon, Goldman Sachs, and…

People Are Protesting Data Centers—but Embracing the Factories That Supply Them

Last month, Pamela Griffin and two other residents of Taylor, Texas, took to the lectern at a city council meeting to object to a data…

Micron Megafab Project Faces a New Hurdle as Activists Seek a Benefits Deal

Days after Micron broke ground on a $100 billion chip factory in New York state, a coalition of environmentalists, labor unions, and civil rights groups…

6 Scary Predictions for AI in 2026

When OpenAI declared a “code red” this month to refocus its teams on competing with Google, I couldn’t help but think back to December three…

Apple Engineers Are Inspecting Bacon Packaging to Help Level Up US Manufacturers

About 10 Apple employees spent some of their valuable hours over recent months on a project that might seem unusual for the tech giant: customizing…

Jeff Bezos’ New AI Venture Quietly Acquired an Agentic Computing Startup

After The New York Times story was published, Guss, Ozair, and about three dozen other people updated their LinkedIn profiles to list their affiliation with…

Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development

Over 1,000 Amazon employees have anonymously signed an open letter warning that the company’s allegedly “all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development” could cause “staggering damage…