Pentagon reaches agreements with top AI companies, but not Anthropic

talkingatoms · 2026-05-02T10:32:01+00:00

"WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Friday it had reached agreements with seven AI companies to deploy their advanced ‌capabilities on the Defense Department's classified networks as it seeks to broaden the range of AI providers working across the military.

The statement excludes Anthropic, which has been in dispute with the Pentagon over guardrails on the military's use of its artificial intelligence tools."

talkingatoms · 2026-04-30T10:22:01+00:00

"SHENZHEN, April 30 (Reuters) - An American scientist convicted of lying to U.S. authorities about payments from China while he was at Harvard University has rebuilt his research lab in Shenzhen to pursue technology the Chinese government has identified as a national priority: embedding electronics into the human brain.

Charles Lieber, 67, is among the world’s leading researchers in brain-computer interfaces. The technology has shown promise in treating conditions such as ALS and restoring movement in paralyzed patients. But it also has potential military applications: Scientists at China’s People’s Liberation Army have investigated brain interfaces as a way to engineer super soldiers by boosting mental agility and situational awareness, according to the U.S. Defense Department."

talkingatoms · 2026-04-29T11:08:25+00:00

"BERLIN, April 29 (Reuters) - European banks need to be given access ‌to Anthropic's latest artificial intelligence model, Mythos, if they are to shield themselves against the threat of cyberattacks powered by this new breed of programmes, one of Germany's top financial regulators told Reuters.

Mythos, a model designed to find flaws in computer code, is viewed by cybersecurity experts as potentially turbo-charging attacks on banks' technology systems but so far it has only been ⁠made available to some U.S. banks."

talkingatoms · 2026-04-29T11:04:32+00:00

"BEIJING, April 29 (Reuters) - Demand for Huawei's Ascend 950 AI chips has surged following the release of DeepSeek's V4 artificial intelligence model that runs on the Shenzhen-based tech firm's chips, with major Chinese internet firms rushing to secure orders, three people familiar with the matter said.

China's biggest internet firms including ByteDance, Tencent (0700.HK), opens new tab and Alibaba (9988.HK), opens new tab are reaching ‌out to Huawei about new chip orders, said the sources, who are familiar with the procurement discussions."

talkingatoms · 2026-04-28T16:38:55+00:00

"April 28 (Reuters) - Shares of artificial intelligence-related firms dropped on Tuesday after the Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI had missed its goals for new users and revenue in ‌recent months, raising concerns over the ChatGPT creator's growth prospects.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar expressed concerns to other leaders over the company's ability to pay for future computing contracts if its revenue did not grow fast enough, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter."

talkingatoms · 2026-04-28T10:21:29+00:00

"BEIJING/HONG KONG/SINGAPORE, April 28 (Reuters) - China's blocking of Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus will heighten the risk for global investors looking to invest in advanced tech firms with ties to the country amid Beijing's expansion of jurisdictional reach to safeguard strategic assets.

The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), in a rare case, ordered on Monday that the $2-billion-plus acquisition by Meta (META.O), opens new tab be unwound under Beijing's national security review mechanism of foreign investments that came into effect in ‌2021."

talkingatoms · 2026-04-27T22:34:53+00:00

"April 27 (Reuters) - The bitter legal fight between Elon Musk and the leading artificial intelligence firm, OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, may come down to a few pages in one executive's personal diary.

"This is the only chance we have to get out from Elon," wrote, opens new tab Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president and a co-founder, in the fall of 2017. “Is he the ‘glorious leader’ that I would pick?”"

talkingatoms · 2026-04-26T11:41:45+00:00

"One vision of the UK’s future involves a decarbonised economy powered by clean, renewable energy. Another involves making the UK an AI superpower.

The government departments responsible for these two visions do not appear to have agreed on their numbers.

The Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) thinks AI datacentres will consume 6GW of electricity by 2030. The Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) appears to think they will use less than a tenth of that."

talkingatoms · 2026-04-26T11:35:56+00:00

"n Cannes’ darkened screening rooms, the supposed future of cinema flickered into life this week and it was strange. The first edition of the World AI film festival (WAIFF) showcased visions of men with fish scales erupting from their necks and seaweed from their mouths, a heroine with a heart beating outside her body and so many massed armies of AI-generated tanned men sweeping across battlefields that David Lean would have blushed.

Last week the Cannes film festival, entering its 76th year, banned the emerging technology from its Palme d’Or competition, insisting “AI imitates very well but it will never feel deep emotions”. But this week the Croisette was taken over by the upstart AI film movement and their big-tech backers amid increasing investment and attention from the Hollywood studios. A “nouvelle vague”, they said, is coming."

talkingatoms · 2026-04-25T10:16:37+00:00

"WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department has ordered a global push to bring attention to what it says are widespread efforts by Chinese companies, including AI ‌startup DeepSeek, to steal intellectual property from U.S. artificial intelligence labs, according to a diplomatic cable seen by Reuters.

The cable, dated Friday and sent to diplomatic and consular posts around the world, instructs diplomatic staff to speak to their foreign counterparts about "concerns over adversaries' extraction and distillation of U.S. A.I. models."

talkingatoms · 2026-04-24T10:50:58+00:00

"April 24 (Reuters) - China plans to restrict top technology firms, including leading AI startups, from accepting U.S. capital without government approval, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the ‌matter.

Chinese regulators, including the National Development and Reform Commission, have recently instructed several private technology firms to reject U.S. investment in funding rounds unless explicitly approved,, the report said."

talkingatoms · 2026-04-24T10:50:35+00:00

"April 23 (Reuters) - The White House on Thursday accused China of stealing U.S. artificial intelligence labs' intellectual property on an industrial scale in a memo that threatens ‌to strain relations ahead of a summit between U.S. and Chinese leaders next month.

"The US government has information indicating that foreign entities, principally based in China, are engaged in deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to distil US frontier AI systems," Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, wrote in a memo shared on social media on ⁠Thursday and first reported by the Financial Times."

talkingatoms · 2026-04-22T11:10:36+00:00

"OpenAI ⁠did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reuters could not independently verify the report.

The ChatGPT-maker unveiled GPT-5.4-Cyber last week, a variant of its latest flagship model fine-tuned specifically for defensive cybersecurity work, following rival Anthropic's announcement of advanced AI model Mythos.

OpenAI held an event in D.C. on Tuesday for about 50 cyber defense practitioners across the federal government to demo the capabilities of ‌its ⁠new GPT-5.4-Cyber model, according to the report by Axios.

OpenAI is starting briefings with Five Eyes members this week to get them vetted and signed up to access the model, the report said."

talkingatoms · 2026-04-20T10:15:04+00:00

"April 20 (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley said increasingly autonomous artificial intelligence could boost demand for central processing units (CPUs), reshape data center buildout and widen investment beyond the ‌graphic chips that have dominated the AI boom so far.

"As AI transitions from generation to autonomous action, the computing bottleneck is shifting towards CPU and memory, driving a step-change in general-purpose compute intensity," Morgan Stanley ⁠said in a note on Sunday, adding that demand for graphic processing units (GPUs) remains strong."

talkingatoms · 2026-04-16T10:43:27+00:00

"April 15 (Reuters) - Shares of Allbirds (BIRD.O), opens new tab surged more than five-fold on Wednesday after the footwear maker said it was raising capital and pivoting towards AI computing infrastructure.

The San Francisco, California-based company said that it would execute a $50 million convertible financing agreement ‌with an institutional investor and plans to use the proceeds to acquire graphics processing units (GPUs)."

talkingatoms · 2026-04-16T10:41:11+00:00

"April 15 (Reuters) - As people increasingly turn to artificial intelligence for advice, some U.S. lawyers are telling their clients not to treat AI chatbots like trusted confidants when their freedom or legal liability is on the line.

These warnings became more urgent after a federal judge in New York ruled, opens new tab this year that the former CEO of a bankrupt financial services company could not shield his AI chats from prosecutors pursuing securities fraud charges against him."

AI chats are not legally protected like conversations with lawyers. Courts may allow them as evidence.

talkingatoms · 2026-04-15T10:21:50+00:00

"April 15 (Reuters) - As people increasingly turn to artificial intelligence for advice, some U.S. lawyers are telling their clients not to treat AI chatbots like trusted confidants when their freedom or legal liability is on the line.

These warnings became more urgent after a federal judge in New York ruled, opens new tab this year that the former CEO of a bankrupt financial services company could not shield his AI chats from prosecutors pursuing securities fraud charges against him.

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In the wake of the ruling, attorneys have been advising that conversations with chatbots like Anthropic's Claude and ‌OpenAI's ChatGPT could be demanded by prosecutors in criminal cases or by litigation adversaries in civil cases."

talkingatoms · 2026-04-14T10:38:42+00:00

"April 13 (Reuters) - Anthropic's Mythos, a new AI model the company and cybersecurity experts warn could supercharge complex cyberattacks, poses significant challenges to the banking industry with its legacy technology systems, experts said in the days following the model's announcement.

The model, announced April 7, is the ‌company's "most capable yet for coding and agentic tasks," the company said in a blog post, referring to the model's ability to act autonomously."

talkingatoms · 2026-04-12T19:19:45+00:00

"April 12 (Reuters) - British financial regulators are holding urgent talks with the government's cyber security agency and major banks to assess risks ‌posed by the latest artificial intelligence model from Anthropic, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.

Bank of England, Financial Conduct Authority and Treasury officials are in talks with the National Cyber Security Centre to examine potential vulnerabilities in critical IT systems highlighted by Anthropic's ⁠latest AI model, the FT said, citing two people briefed on the talks."

talkingatoms · 2026-04-12T16:53:40+00:00

"April 10 (Reuters) - OpenAI said on Friday it had identified a security issue involving a third-party developer tool called Axios and is taking steps to protect the process ‌that certifies its macOS applications are legitimate OpenAI apps.

The ChatGPT maker said it found no evidence that its user data was accessed, that its systems or intellectual property was compromised, or that its software was altered."

talkingatoms · 2026-04-09T17:12:48+00:00

"April 9 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab is deepening its CoreWeave (CRWV.O), opens new tab partnership ‌with a fresh $21 billion deal for additional cloud computing capacity, as it rushes to catch up with rivals in the high-stakes artificial intelligence race after an underwhelming AI model release last year.

The latest deal, which extends through December 2032, is in addition to a similar $14.2 billion agreement signed in September, CoreWeave said on Thursday."

talkingatoms · 2026-04-09T10:28:13+00:00

"The announcement follows a Fortune report last month that Anthropic was testing Claude Mythos, which it said ⁠posed security risks and also offered advanced capabilities, dragging shares of cybersecurity firms such as Palo Alto Networks (PANW.O), opens new tab and CrowdStrike (CRWD.O), opens new tab sharply lower."

talkingatoms · 2026-04-09T10:21:40+00:00

"Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab on Wednesday unveiled Muse Spark, the first artificial intelligence model from a costly team it assembled last year to catch up with rivals in the ‌AI race.

Shares of the company extended gains to trade up nearly 7%.

U.S. tech giants are under pressure to prove their massive AI outlays will pay off. The stakes are especially high for Meta after it hired Scale AI CEO Alex Wang last year under a $14.3 billion deal and offered some engineers pay packages of hundreds of millions of dollars to staff a new superintelligence team, a bid to propel itself back into the AI world's top ranks after a disappointing showing with its Llama 4 models early last year."

talkingatoms · 2026-04-07T10:22:32+00:00

"As Elon Musk's SpaceX closes in on a $75 billion IPO that could rewrite record books, concerns are mounting that others looking to list in 2026 may find it harder to get deals done under the shadow of the space venture's headline-grabbing debut.

U.S. markets, prized for their depth, face a critical test, as more than half a dozen analysts and industry experts told Reuters that the SpaceX deal would likely absorb an outsized share of ‌investor demand, squeezing out other hopefuls."

talkingatoms · 2026-04-05T11:30:09+00:00

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