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Anthropic Warns Its Own AI Could Pose ‘Existential Risks to Humanity’ in IPO Filing In one of the most extraordinary disclosures ever made by a technology company heading for the public markets, Anthropic plans to warn potential investors in its…
OpenAI GPT-6.1 Astra shelved: the company will not release the next-generation model it had planned to launch in ChatGPT and Codex in October 2026, after researchers raised safety concerns during internal testing. The Wall Street Journal reported the decision on…
Google is about to find out whether AI data centers can run in space. On October 1, 2026, the company plans to launch its first Project Suncatcher satellite — a prototype spacecraft carrying four of Google’s Trillium AI chips —…
Microsoft Turns Copilot Into a Super App: New Code Builder, Autopilot Agent and Office Apps Built In Microsoft is giving Copilot its biggest overhaul yet. On Friday, September 25, 2026, the company unveiled a redesigned Copilot app built around three…
Anthropic Signs $11.6 Billion Cloud Deal With Akamai to Power AI Growth Anthropic is spending big to keep up with surging demand for its AI models. The Claude maker has signed an $11.6 billion, seven-year cloud services agreement with Akamai…
Anthropic has announced that its Claude artificial intelligence model helped discover a previously unknown enzyme system with properties reminiscent of CRISPR, the gene-editing technology that transformed modern biology. The finding, disclosed on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, is the first result…
The two most famous names in artificial intelligence rarely agree on anything. But on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, the CEOs of rival AI labs OpenAI and Anthropic stood on the same side of the same argument — in front of…
On September 22, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 — the first model in its brand-new Claude 5.5 family. The headline numbers are hard to ignore: performance on par with the flagship Claude Fable 5.1 on most tasks, but roughly…
