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Inside the fight over Claude Mythos 5
AI | The Verge
As the rest of the country celebrated the USA's first World Cup win and the New York Knicks championship, Anthropic spent its weekend fighting the Trump administration over its latest model release. At 5:21 PM on Friday, the company received a US export control directive to suspe
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Facebook’s new AI Mode search gets its info from public posts
AI | The Verge
Your public Facebook posts could help inform AI-generated results in Meta's new AI Mode. When you search on Facebook, the "AI Mode" option will appear alongside the usual search modes like "People" and "Marketplace." It's one of several new AI features Meta is rolling out startin
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All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House
AI | The Verge
Anthropic was already navigating one dispute with the government in its standoff with the Pentagon, and then came an order on June 12th to block off foreign access to its most recently released AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. When they launched on June 9th, Anthropic said “Fable
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Trump’s Anthropic shutdown just made the case for non-American AI
AI | The Verge
At Washington's request, Anthropic suddenly took its newest and most powerful AI models offline over the weekend. The American company said it had little choice after the White House demanded it block access for all foreign nationals, including its own employees. Abroad, the inci
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Big Tech’s desperate last push at AI regulation
AI | The Verge
For months, Big Tech's Washington lobbyists have chased after the holy grail of pro-AI legislation: preemption. This would be a comprehensive federal law, passed in Congress and signed by the president, applying one set of AI rules across the entire country and overriding the leg
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Skydio CEO Adam Bry on why Silicon Valley shouldn’t draw red lines for drone use
AI | The Verge
Today, I’m talking with Adam Bry, who is CEO of Skydio, the leading US maker of autonomous drones. Before we recorded this episode, I actually got to remotely operate one of Skydio’s drones in the Bay Area from Adam’s laptop in our podcast studio in New York and fly an indoor dro
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Sundar Pichai faces boos, walkout at Stanford graduation ceremony over Google’s Israel, ICE ties
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
AI is once again at the heart of a college graduation protest — this time for the technology's use in Google's defense contracts.
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The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message is clear: The AI industry isn't immune from U.S. government interference.
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Meta’s new ‘AI Mode’ on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Meta announced Monday that it's rolling out a wave of new AI features on Facebook, the latest sign of the company's effort to catch up in the AI race and keep users more engaged on the platform.
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SpaceX is public: Everything you need to know post-IPO
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't), pre-IPO deals, and what's tucked inside its S-1 registration
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Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts urged the White House to remove export-control restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models, arguing that the order is going to limit the ability of cybersecurity defenders to secure their software and products.
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Salesforce acquires AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6B
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Salesforce says it wants to use Fin's team and technology to improve Agentforce, its existing enterprise platform that businesses can use to build custom AI agents that automate tasks.
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Sarvam becomes India’s newest AI unicorn with $234 million funding round led by HCLTech
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Indian IT services company HCLTech is investing $150 million in the Bengaluru startup.
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As AI agents become employees, NewCore emerges with $66M to give them identities
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
NewCore argues the next challenge in enterprise security will be managing AI agents, not people.
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A satellite just learned to find things on its own — here’s what that means
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
In April, for the first time ever, an Earth observation satellite found what it was looking for, all on its own.
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The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
At the very moment that tens of thousands of workers are being shown the door, a small cohort of AI insiders is becoming wealthy on a scale that's hard to comprehend.
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HarmonyOS 7 steps into the AI gap Apple left open in China
AI News
Four days after Apple confirmed that Siri AI would not launch in China, Huawei took the stage in Dongguan and declared HarmonyOS 7 the beginning of the agent era. The gap Apple could not fill, Huawei has moved into with an architecture built specifically for it. What HarmonyOS 7
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Accenture: Consumers show growing trust in AI shopping agents
AI News
Consumers are showing a willingness to let AI agents take on more shopping-related tasks, according to new research from Accenture. The company’s 2026 Consumer Pulse Research, based on a survey of 25,590 consumers across 16 countries, found that 74% of respondents would trust a p
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The AI off switch: How Anthropic’s export controls sparked a global AI sovereignty scramble
AI News
Anthropic export controls turned an abstract policy fear into a live one last week: as of June 13, 2026, one US government directive took the company’s two most powerful AI models offline for users everywhere, including, briefly, Anthropic’s own foreign-born employees, and set of
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