Anthropic loses DC and Microsoft as OpenAI patches ChatGPT mid-trial

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2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership anthropic.com

Anthropic forms $200 million partnership with the Gates Foundation anthropic.com

Helping ChatGPT better recognize context in sensitive conversations openai.com

Learn how new ChatGPT safety updates improve context awareness in sensitive conversations, helping detect risk over time and respond more safely.

Cerebras raises $5.5B, then stock pops $108%, in the first huge tech IPO of 2026 techcrunch.com

Cerebras kicked off 2026’s IPO season with the year’s first major tech listing, pulling in $5.5 billion before shares popped 108% on day one. The AI chipmaker’s debut marks a sharp turnaround after a year ago its public offering looked unlikely.

Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses theverge.com

Microsoft is canceling internal access to Anthropic’s Claude Code, which it began rolling out in December to thousands of staff including project managers and designers learning to code. The reversal comes despite sources saying the tool proved popular inside the company.

OpenAI is reportedly preparing legal action against Apple; it wouldn’t be the first partner to feel burned techcrunch.com

OpenAI is exploring legal action against Apple, frustrated that the ChatGPT integration in iOS failed to deliver the subscriber growth and prominence the company expected. It would not be the first Apple partner to feel shortchanged by the iPhone maker.

Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds arstechnica.com

AI notetaking tools used by Ontario physicians are fabricating clinical details, a provincial audit found, with common errors including made-up therapy referrals and incorrect prescriptions. The findings raise fresh safety concerns about ambient scribe software now embedded in routine patient visits.

Work with Codex from anywhere openai.com

OpenAI is putting Codex inside the ChatGPT iOS and Android apps, letting developers monitor, steer and approve coding tasks from their phones across remote environments. The mobile push follows OpenAI’s effort to catch Anthropic’s Claude Code, which has surged in popularity.

OpenAI says Codex is coming to your phone techcrunch.com

The update gives users enhanced flexibility over how they can manage their workflows.

OpenAI’s Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app theverge.com

OpenAI is going to let users access Codex, its desktop AI tool that can write code and use apps on your computer, from the ChatGPT app on your phone. Following the surge in popularity for Anthropic’s Claude Code, OpenAI has been working quickly to try and catch up, including by cutting back on “side quests,” […]

Americans do not want AI data centers in their backyards theverge.com

Opposition to AI data center construction has hardened, with a new Gallup survey showing over 70% of Americans against builds in their area and just 7% strongly in favor. Respondents said they would rather live near a nuclear plant than a hyperscaler campus.

Use this map to find the data centers in your backyard theverge.com

When Oregon resident Isabelle Reksopuro heard Google was gobbling up public land to fuel its data centers in her home state, she didn’t initially know what to believe. “There’s a lot of misinformation about data centers,” she said. “Google has denied taking that land.” Technically, she explains, The Dalles, a city near the Washington state […]

Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers arstechnica.com

Town’s 49,000 California residents compete with Nevada data centers for energy.

Cisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to spend more on AI, reports ‘record quarterly revenue’ techcrunch.com

Cisco is laying off nearly 4,000 workers to redirect spending toward AI, even as CEO Chuck Robbins touts record quarterly revenue and growth. It is the networking giant’s latest workforce reduction in a string of cuts over recent years.

Desperate Trump taps “Tim Apple,” Jensen Huang, Elon Musk to attend Xi summit arstechnica.com

Xi meeting may force Trump to pivot on chip restrictions and Taiwan.

The shock of seeing your body used in deepfake porn technologyreview.com

When Jennifer got a job doing research for a nonprofit in 2023, she ran her new professional headshot through a facial recognition program. She wanted to see if the tech would pull up the porn videos she’d made more than 10 years before, when she was in her early 20s. It did in fact return…

AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers technologyreview.com

A Redditor recently wrote that he was “desperate for help”: for about a month, he said, his phone had been inundated by calls from “strangers” who were “looking for a lawyer, a product designer, a locksmith.” Callers were apparently misdirected by Google’s generative AI. In March, a software developer in Israel was contacted on WhatsApp…

AI-Native Healthcare: 100M Doctor Visits, 10–20 Hours Saved, Prior Auth in Minutes — Janie Lee & Chai Asawa, Abridge latent.space

How Abridge is quietly turning the patient and clinician conversation into the operating system of healthcare

Closing time theverge.com

Today was closing arguments in the Musk v. Altman trial, and I almost feel bad writing about the unbelievable demolition derby I just witnessed. Steven Molo, Musk’s lawyer, stumbled over his words. He at one point called Greg Brockman - a co-defendant - Greg Altman. He erroneously claimed that Musk wasn’t asking for money and […]

What the jury will actually decide in the case of Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman techcrunch.com

Here’s what the biggest tech court case of the year is all about.

Behold, the Elon Musk jackass trophy theverge.com

Yesterday, in Musk v. Altman, before the jurors came in, Sam Altman’s team passed up what looked - from a distance - like a little league trophy. It was not. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers had the lawyers read the inscription aloud for the press: “Never stop being a jackass.” It’s a commemoration OpenAI employees bought for […]

What happens when AI starts building itself? techcrunch.com

Richard Socher’s new $650 million startup wants to build an AI that can research and improve itself indefinitely — and he insists it will actually ship products.

Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI has been bleeding staff since its merger techcrunch.com

More than 50 employees have reportedly left Elon Musk’s newly merged SpaceXAI since February, raising questions about burnout, leadership changes, talent poaching, and whether liquidity events weakened retention incentives.

Sea’s View on the Future of Agentic Software Development with Codex openai.com

Sea Limited’s CPO explains why the company is deploying Codex across engineering teams to accelerate AI-native software development in Asia.

Agents feedback tip bensbites.com

all apps will become dev tools

You can make an app for that theverge.com

The tyranny of software is almost over. Since the first computer programmers wrote the first computer programs, we, the users of that software, have been forced to live in the worlds those programs create. The features are the features. The design is the design. Want something else, something better? Learn to code, I guess. Until […]

Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose first startup, Bench, imploded techcrunch.com

Crosby is building Synthetic, a fully autonomous AI bookkeeping service for other startups.

Wirestock raises $23M to supply creative multimodal data to AI labs techcrunch.com

The company pivoted to being a data provider in 2023 and now supplies datasets of images, videos, design assets, and gaming and 3D content to AI labs.

Establishing AI and data sovereignty in the age of autonomous systems technologyreview.com

When generative AI first moved from research labs into real-world business applications, enterprises made a tacit bargain: “Capability now, control later.” Feed your proprietary data into third-party AI models, and you will get powerful results. But your data passes through systems you do not own, under governance you do not set. The protections you rely…

(AINews) Everything is Conductor latent.space

an ultra quiet day lets us highlight a smaller trend.

(AINews) Codex Rises, Claude Meters Programmatic Usage latent.space

a quiet day lets us report on a long trend of the major coding agents

(AINews) The End of Finetuning latent.space

a quiet day lets us reflect on whither finetuning

AI invades Princeton, where 30% of students cheat—but peers won’t snitch arstechnica.com

Old “honor code” systems are under strain.

Data readiness for agentic AI in financial services technologyreview.com

Financial services companies have unique needs when it comes to business AI. They operate in one of the most highly regulated sectors while responding to external events that are updated by the second. As a result, the success of agentic AI in financial services depends less on the sophistication of the system and more on…

Clawdmeter turns your Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard techcrunch.com

A new open source gadget called Clawdmeter turns Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard for AI coding power users.

Rivian adds a new onboard AI assistant to its latest software update arstechnica.com

The Rivian Assistant is available for both Gen1 and Gen2 hardware.

Two weeks left: Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27 techcrunch.com

Your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100K equity-free funding is running out. Deadline to apply is May 27. Apply now.

Learn the system bensbites.com

are live models making a comeback?

References

NIST CAISI evaluation of DeepSeek nist.gov

DeepSeek R1-0528 followed 94% of overtly malicious requests when subjected to common jailbreaking techniques, compared to 8% for U.S. reference models, and was 12 times more likely to execute harmful agentic instructions such as exfiltrating credentials.

Help Net Security helpnetsecurity.com

Mozilla’s agentic harness using Claude Mythos identified 271 previously unknown vulnerabilities in Firefox 150 with fewer than 15 false positives, verified via AddressSanitizer crash reproduction.

AI Business — ‘Anthropic downgrades its AI safety policy’ aibusiness.com

SaferAI labeled the v3.2 RSP update a step backward, citing the move from quantitative thresholds to qualitative ‘risk objectives’; Jared Kaplan admitted the original RSP felt like ‘unilateral disarmament.’

Atlantic Council — Chinese narratives around Anthropic atlanticcouncil.org

State broadcaster CCTV’s Yuyuan Tantian called Mythos a ‘genuine threat,’ while 36Kr and Guancha argued Anthropic’s own models were trained on scraped data without authorization, making ‘distillation’ accusations hypocritical.

ComplexDiscovery — Anthropic vs Washington complexdiscovery.com

After Anthropic refused to waive safeguards against mass domestic surveillance and autonomous lethality, the Trump administration designated the firm a ‘supply chain risk’—a label historically reserved for Huawei—and replaced it with OpenAI on classified networks.

Elephas — researcher quits Anthropic over China stance elephas.app

Yao Shunyu departed for Google DeepMind citing Anthropic’s labeling of China as an ‘adversarial nation’; analysts warn the policy could alienate the ~38% of top U.S.-based AI researchers born in China.

BMJ Global Health editorial (Shaffer, Alenichev, Faure) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

long been criticised for championing the trend of socially reductive, ‘magic bullet’ technical ‘solutions’ to the complex, historically shaped, politically conflicted problems at root of global health inequities

Pulse 2.0 pulse2.com

The $200 million commitment is split evenly… the Gates Foundation provides half ($100 million) in direct grant funding… The remaining $100 million is contributed by Anthropic in the form of Claude API usage credits and dedicated technical staff support

Fast Company fastcompany.com

Elizabeth Kelly joined Anthropic… after serving as the inaugural director of the U.S. AI Safety Institute (USAISI) within NIST

Forbes (Shrivastava, 2023) forbes.com

Gates Foundation funds nearly 50 generative AI projects in low- and middle-income countries… grants of up to $100,000 each to researchers in 17 countries

LongtermWiki entry on Gates–OpenAI Horizon 1000 longtermwiki.com

Horizon 1000—a $50 million joint venture with OpenAI to deploy AI across 1,000 African health clinics… the foundation has diversified its portfolio… signing a $200 million deal with Anthropic

r/ClaudeAI discussion thread reddit.com

vocal dissenters… criticized the association with Bill Gates, citing… his history of defending strict intellectual property rights—a stance some argue has historically hindered global access to life-saving medicines

Wikipedia: Raine v. OpenAI en.wikipedia.org

The suit alleges OpenAI moved from a ‘hard refusal’ policy to a ‘supportive engagement’ model, and that ChatGPT mentioned suicide over 1,200 times in conversations with the 16-year-old before his death.

Cybernews on Trusted Contact cybernews.com

Critics warn of a ‘single-contact problem’: if a user’s designated contact is an abuser, the notification could weaponize the tool for surveillance and escalate retaliation.

AIThority / mPACT benchmark aithority.com

GPT-5.2 leads in simple harm avoidance, but Claude Sonnet 4.5 scored highest for clinical alignment in suicide-risk and eating-disorder scenarios; chatbots ‘avoid harm but still need more support for high-risk conversations.’

Maginative on many-shot jailbreaking maginative.com

Filling a 200k-token window with hundreds of fictitious harmful dialogues lets attackers override alignment via in-context learning; success rate scales predictably with context length.

DigitalHealth.net on Nature Medicine study digitalhealth.net

ChatGPT Health failed to identify medical emergencies in 51.6% of cases and overtriaged 64.8% of healthy individuals, even as OpenAI claimed near-perfect internal scores.

Psychiatric Times psychiatrictimes.com

Researchers labeled OpenAI’s $2 million well-being fund ‘grantwashing’ — a fig leaf to appease regulators while withholding internal data needed for independent study; the Raine suit alleges guardrails were lowered to keep users engaged.