NSA using Claude Mythos for ‘offensive cyber operations,’ report claims — says ‘half-a-dozen’ Anthropic engineers embedded inside the agency

US National Security Agency reportedly using Mythos for conducting cyber-attacks — report reveals Anthropic engineers inside the NSA

Airbnb’s Chesky helped put Sam Altman back in power. Now he’s building an AI lab to compete with him.
Airbnb’s Chesky helped put Sam Altman back in power. Now he’s building an AI lab to compete with him.

Brian Chesky has spent years as an AI kingmaker. He met Sam Altman through Y Combinator in 2006, advised him on managing OpenAI’s hypergrowth, and helped broker Altman’s return to power after the board fired him in November 2023. He was reportedly cons…

Token prices fell 98%. Enterprise AI bills tripled. Now the industry wants a standards body to explain why.
Token prices fell 98%. Enterprise AI bills tripled. Now the industry wants a standards body to explain why.

Uber blew through its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April. Microsoft revoked its developers’ Claude Code licences six months after enabling them. One company reportedly ran up a $500 million Claude bill in a single month after forgetting to set usage…

Von der Leyen’s AI envoy pick triggers conflict-of-interest backlash weeks after Siemens helped gut the AI Act
Von der Leyen’s AI envoy pick triggers conflict-of-interest backlash weeks after Siemens helped gut the AI Act

The European Commission has appointed Jim Hagemann Snabe, chairman of Siemens’ supervisory board, as its special envoy for industrial artificial intelligence. He will advise Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and tech sovereignty chief Henna Vir…

Seattle to pass one-year AI data center moratorium next week — will use window to study community impact of AI buildouts

Two Seattle city council committees have passed a one-year moratorium and a resolution on data centers. The measures are still up for a vote in the full council, but many consider that simply as a formality.

Blackstone-backed AirTrunk plans $30bn India data centre push as the country becomes AI’s next construction site
Blackstone-backed AirTrunk plans $30bn India data centre push as the country becomes AI’s next construction site

Six weeks ago, AirTrunk did not operate in India. Now it wants to spend $30 billion there. The Blackstone-backed hyperscale data centre operator announced on Thursday that it plans to invest more than INR 3,000 billion ($30 billion) in India by 2030, b…

Mira Murati resurfaces after 18 months with a warning about AI governance and a product no one expected
Mira Murati resurfaces after 18 months with a warning about AI governance and a product no one expected

For someone who helped ship ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Codex, Mira Murati has been remarkably quiet. On Thursday, she broke the silence. Sitting down with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang in San Francisco, the CEO of Thinking Machines Lab gave her first major media a…

A Chinese startup just dethroned Nvidia on the benchmark Nvidia helped build
A Chinese startup just dethroned Nvidia on the benchmark Nvidia helped build

Two days. That is how long Nvidia’s latest robotics model sat at the top of the RoboArena leaderboard before a startup from Hangzhou knocked it off. On Wednesday, Spirit AI announced that its foundation model for embodied intelligence, Spirit v1.6, had…

Japan risks becoming an ‘AI colony’, its digital minister warns
Japan risks becoming an ‘AI colony’, its digital minister warns

The phrase Japan’s digital minister chose was deliberately stark. Hisashi Matsumoto warned that the country risks becoming an “AI colony” if it fails to keep pace with the technology, using the term to defend a government-backed bill that would amend J…

Anthropic says Claude writes 80% of its own code and the world needs a plan to hit the brakes
Anthropic says Claude writes 80% of its own code and the world needs a plan to hit the brakes

One of Anthropic’s engineers hasn’t written a line of code in five months. Not because the work dried up, but because Claude does it now. As of May 2026, more than 80% of the code merged into Anthropic’s production codebase was authored by Claude, up f…