What leaked "SteamGPT" files could mean for the PC gaming platform's use of AI
These days, it seems like every tech company and their corporate parent is looking to squeeze AI tools and features into their products, whether they’re wanted or not.
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These days, it seems like every tech company and their corporate parent is looking to squeeze AI tools and features into their products, whether they’re wanted or not.
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After months of conversations with ChatGPT, a 53-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur became convinced he’d discovered a cure for sleep apnea and that powerful people were coming after him, according to a new lawsuit filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco County.
week that the debut of its new Claude Mythos Preview model marks a critical juncture in the evolution of cybersecurity, representing an unprecedented existential threat to existing software defense strategies.
“Yeah folks, it’s gonna be harder in the future to ensure OpenClaw still works with Anthropic models,” OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger posted on X early Friday morning, along with a photo of a message from Anthropic saying his account had been suspended over “suspicious” activity. The ban didn’t
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Minutes after President Donald Trump announced that he would not wipe out “a whole civilization” on Tuesday evening, a team of self-described young Iranian activists jumped into action. Members of the group known as Explosive Media were putting the finishing touches on their latest AI-generated, Leg
To protect enterprise margins, business leaders must invest in robust AI governance to securely manage AI infrastructure.When evaluating enterprise software adoption, a recurring pattern dictates how technology matures across industries.
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HumanX conference in San Francisco’s Moscone Center, it’s hard not to feel like you’re at the center of the AI universe. Technology leaders swarm the building, and the headquarters of OpenAI and Anthropic are just down the block.
A federal appeals court refused to halt the Trump administration’s efforts to blacklist Anthropic yesterday, denying the company’s emergency motion for a stay.
Google and Intel announced an expanded multiyear partnership on Thursday for Google Cloud to continue utilizing Intel AI infrastructure and to keep developing processors together. Google Cloud will use Intel’s Xeon processors, including Intel’s latest Xeon 6 chips, for AI, cloud, and inference tasks
Anthropic said this week that it limited the release of its newest model, dubbed Mythos, because it is too capable of finding security exploits in software relied upon by users around the world. Instead of unleashing Mythos on the public, the frontier lab will share it with a group of large companie
Meta’s AI app has seen a sizable jump in installs following Wednesday’s launch of the company’s newest AI model, Muse Spark — its first model release under Alexandr Wang, the head of Meta’s Superintelligence Labs who was recruited from Scale AI last year to overhaul the social giant’s AI efforts. Ac
Six months ago, Mercor was flying high after raising a massive $350 million Series C that valued the AI data training startup at $10 billion.
Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, announced Thursday that his office planned to investigate OpenAI over the alleged role of ChatGPT in a deadly shooting last year. In April 2025, a gunman opened fire on Florida State University’s campus, killing two and injuring five.
The AI company Anthropic released a 244-page “system card” (PDF) this week describing its newest model, Claude Mythos.
OpenAI announced on Thursday something that power users have been asking for forever: a $100/month plan.
its support behind an Illinois state bill that would shield AI labs from liability in cases where AI models are used to cause serious societal harms, such as death or serious injury of 100 or more people or at least $1 billion in property damage.The effort seems to mark a shift in OpenAI’s legislati