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What AI tools actually do once the launch demo ends. We follow OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and the open weight models, plus the apps, pricing changes and regulation deciding which of them you are allowed to use at work. Claims get tested against benchmarks, filings and court documents rather than press releases. The wider industry story runs in Tech News.
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic and named Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann personally, seeking up to $150,000 per song over Claude’s training data.
How to tell whether PayPal and Venmo are really down, what to do with pending payments, local fixes that work, and the best alternatives to pay while you wait.
DoubleTrouble is an Android banking trojan handed out through Discord channels. It records your screen, logs keystrokes and blocks banking apps. Here is how it works and how to check your phone.
Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 cuts cached token prices by 75% and more than doubles a key agentic research benchmark, as AI labs shift their competition toward the cost of running agents.
Anthropic says Claude autonomously produced the first fully machine-checked proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in Lean, a 13-million-line formalization that took 11 days.
Google Labs launched Play with Putty, a real time multiplayer vibe coding tool where a whole group builds an app together from one shared prompt stream. Here is how it works and how it stacks up against Cursor, Replit and Lovable.
Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for close to $13 billion, its second largest acquisition ever. Here is what the deal actually contains, and why regulators, and Hugging Face’s own developer community, are already nervous.
Astra is the first OpenAI model to hit the Critical cybersecurity threshold under the Preparedness Framework, finding two zero day vulnerabilities on its own during testing. Its strongest cyber capabilities stay restricted to OpenAI’s vetted Daybreak coalition.
OpenAI connected ChatGPT for Healthcare to Epic’s 325 million patient records on September 1, 2026. Access is read only, but privacy lawyers warn HIPAA protection does not travel with data patients share directly with the chatbot.
The Department of War added tailored versions of ChatGPT and Grok to GenAI.mil, its secure AI portal, alongside Google’s Gemini. Of the 3 million eligible military and civilian personnel, 1.7 million had already signed up, though reporting found some staff learned about the rollout only after it went live.