Chinese state media slammed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s AI slowdown essay as a Cold War playbook aimed at Beijing, per Reuters
Trump said the only AI guardrail needed is a smart president, adding the US already has one
Anthropic is preparing a Claude Money feature for the Claude iOS app, letting users link bank accounts and ask Claude about spending and finances, likely US-only at launch.
Portable Computer now runs on Windows PCs with NVIDIA RTX GPUs (24GB+ VRAM), adding local MCP and scheduled task support
Bolt launched Forge, a browser-based app-builder agent running only on open-weight models (GLM 5.3, GLM 5.3 Flash by default
Gemini Notebook is adding Interactive Reports that let users embed mind maps, slide decks, flash cards, and quizzes directly into reports
A draft Code of Conduct has been published introducing the term Humanist Superintelligence (HSI), laying out principles like human control, safety over task completion, and no independent AI goals.
Grok 4.8 will be a 2.5T-parameter model on a new C++ stack, with Elon Musk expecting training to finish this week
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff he supports a body for testing and auditing AI models, and believes major AI labs may have to build a standards body themselves without US government backing.
Cline launched Cline Desktop, a native app for open-weight models built on the same SDK harness as its extension and CLI, supporting ClinePass, free models like DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash and Musespark-1.3, and BYOK.
Andon Labs’ fully AI-run store, managed by an agent named Luna, kept operating passively as sales fell below its $7,000 monthly rent, with no attempt to course-correct.
Nous Research opened Hermes Agent for business, letting teams share one balance with per-member caps via Nous Portal, alongside a Hermes Enterprise offering for on-prem or cloud deployment.
ElevenLabs added voice, music, image, and video generation to its MCP.
Palantir, Nvidia, and Booz Allen Hamilton are restricting Anthropic’s Fable model for sensitive work over data-retention concerns, with some customers demanding irrevocable zero-data-retention guarantees before use.