Block's 24% Stock Jump Will Cost More Jobs Than Its AI Ever Could
Block cut 4,000 jobs during record profits. The stock jumped 24%. The market reward creates a template every CEO will copy.
Block's 24% Stock Jump Will Cost More Jobs Than Its AI Ever Could
Block cut 4,000 jobs during record profits. The stock jumped 24%. The market reward creates a template every CEO will copy.
Japan Injects $1.7 Billion Into Rapidus, Retains Veto Power Over Chip Startup
Japan secures veto power over Rapidus with golden share as $1.7B funding round from 32 companies exceeds targets for 2nm chip venture.
OPINION: Anthropic Drew the Line. Congress Should Have Drawn It First.
Dario Amodei rejected the Pentagon's final offer. A private company is drawing lines that 535 legislators have refused to begin.
AI News
Karpathy Says AI Coding Agents Made Programming 'Unrecognizable' Since December
Karpathy claims December 2025 was when AI coding agents crossed from unreliable to functional. Bloomberg reports a productivity panic in tech.
Perplexity Launches Computer, an Agent Platform Orchestrating 19 AI Models at Once
Perplexity Computer uses 19 AI models with Claude Opus 4.6 as orchestrator. Max subscribers get access at $200/month with per-token billing.
AI Models Deployed Nuclear Weapons in 95% of War Game Simulations, Study Finds
King's College study finds GPT-5.2, Claude, and Gemini reached for nuclear weapons in nearly every simulated crisis. No model ever surrendered.
Anthropic Launches 10 Claude Cowork Plugins for Investment Banking, HR and Design
Anthropic released 10 Cowork plugins for investment banking, HR and design with S&P Global and LSEG, plus Excel-PowerPoint integration.
Analysis
Google Stopped Selling Image Generation. Everyone Else Still Does.
Google's Nano Banana 2 makes Pro-tier image generation free across Search, cutting API prices 50% as Alibaba's open-weight model threatens.
Salesforce Beat Every Number. SaaS-Angst Won Anyway.
Salesforce beat every Q4 estimate but stock fell 5%. Agentforce ARR hit $800M, just 1.9% of revenue. SaaS-Angst is winning.
AI Already Divides Schools by Income. Pew Measured the Gap at 3 to 1.
Low-income teens are three times more likely to depend on AI for schoolwork. Pew's data reveals a class divide, not a cheating problem.
AMD Is Giving Away 20% of Its Stock to Sell Chips. That's a Confession, Not a Win.
AMD offered warrants for 20% of its stock to Meta and OpenAI in four months. The AI chip market's circular financing raises serious questions.
Politics
Anthropic Rejects Pentagon's Final AI Offer, Says Compromise Would Gut Safeguards
Anthropic rejected the Pentagon's best and final offer on Claude military use, calling safeguard language an escape hatch. Friday deadline looms.
AI Models Deployed Nuclear Weapons in 95% of War Game Simulations, Study Finds
King's College study finds GPT-5.2, Claude, and Gemini reached for nuclear weapons in nearly every simulated crisis. No model ever surrendered.
Trump Tells Tech Companies to Build Own Power Plants for AI Data Centers
Trump's ratepayer protection pledge tells tech companies to build their own power plants for data centers. No enforcement mechanism disclosed.
Anthropic Faces Friday Deadline to Drop AI Safeguards or Lose Pentagon Contract
Hegseth tells Amodei to drop Claude's safety guardrails by Friday or face supply chain risk designation and Defense Production Act.
Vibe Coding
What Builders Are Making With Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI
A curated showcase of projects built with AI coding tools. Browse featured work or submit your own.
Anthropic Says Cache Misses Are Production Incidents, Reveals Caching Shaped Claude Code
Anthropic's Claude Code team treats cache hit rate drops as production incidents. Manus arrived at the same conclusions independently.
Simon Willison Ships Rodney v0.4.0, a Browser Automation CLI Built for Coding Agents
Simon Willison's Rodney v0.4.0 lets AI coding agents drive Chrome and capture screenshots to prove their work. Eight PRs in one week.
Vibe Coding Got a Promotion. Nobody Checked Its Work.
Karpathy renamed vibe coding to 'agentic engineering.' The $45 billion industry's security record suggests the upgrade is premature.
Funding
SambaNova's second life. A $350 million bet that Intel can't build alone
SambaNova raised $350M after Intel acquisition talks collapsed. SN50 chip targets Nvidia with Intel co-selling deal.
Slang AI Proved Restaurants Need Voice AI. Now It Needs to Prove They Need Slang.
Slang AI closed a $36M Series B to expand beyond voice into text and hotels. 2,000+ locations, 25M calls, and a market filling with rivals.
Pentagon software runs on code older than its recruits. Code Metal's $125 million fix.
Code Metal's AI translates aging Pentagon code into modern languages with formal verification. A $1.25B bet on defense's worst problem.
World Labs Raises $1 Billion From Nvidia, AMD, and Autodesk for Spatial AI
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1 billion from Nvidia, AMD, and Autodesk for spatial AI. The startup opened its 3D generator Marble to the public.
AI Research
Researchers Propose Biosecurity Data Levels to Control AI Access to Pathogen Datasets
More than 100 researchers propose Biosecurity Data Levels to control which pathogen datasets can train AI models. Only new data would be restricted.
Anthropic Study Finds 1 in 1,000 Claude Conversations Risk Distorting Users' Grip on Reality
Anthropic analyzed 1.5M Claude conversations and found severe reality distortion in 1 in 1,300 chats. Disempowerment rates are growing, driven by sycophancy.
The AI productivity mirage: Executives see eight hours saved. Workers see almost nothing.
40% of executives claim AI saves 8 hours weekly. Two-thirds of workers see under 2 hours. New surveys reveal why the productivity revolution isn't reaching the ground floor.
Anthropic Finds the Off-Switch for AI Personality Drift
Anthropic researchers mapped how chatbots drift from helpful assistants to mystics and enablers. Their fix cuts harmful responses by 60% without touching normal behavior. The finding exposes a structure that exists before safety training even begins.
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