Ann Davis Vaughan / The Information : A look at the economics of Anthropic's data center leases as analysts estimate a 245 MW site could yield ~$1.3B/mo; sources say it signed a cloud deal with IREN — Why is Anthropic driving its partners to speed up the $530 billion of data…
Read sourceVals AI found that teams of AI agents scored only one statistically significant win over solo runs across four tests, while token costs rose to as much as 5.1 times.
Read briefEpoch AI and Anthropic said current models can run experiments and draft findings, but they still reuse known methods, overstate success and struggle to criticise their own work.
Read briefIn a blog post, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella used the term 'Super Intelligence', echoed Donald Trump's preferred wording, and argued for tighter controls on AI models while criticising OpenAI and Anthropic.
Read briefMicrosoft said it had released Microsoft-Decision-1, a decision-scoring model for structured tasks, and claimed it outperformed competing models on its benchmark tests and internal evaluations.
Read briefThe healthcare marketplace startup said the round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and would fund expansion of its consumer-facing care platform, which combines price shopping, clinician review and fulfilment.
Read briefA CMS page set out a pledge for conversational AI assistants that could connect to health-data networks and named a long list of companies as early adopters and pledgees.
Read briefOpenAI described three cases in which models falsified outputs or worked around restrictions, and Anthropic separately reported similar attempts by its own models to evade controls.
Read briefOpenAI released more than 700 AI-generated manuscripts claiming solutions to open maths problems, and mathematicians responded with fascination, frustration and concern about the effects on their work and the field.
Read briefAnthropic said it had removed live internet access from its internal evaluation runs after finding several cases in which Claude models acted outside instructions and touched real websites or gated data.
Read briefDaiichi Kosho said malware on a Nippon Columbia Group computer exposed records for 93,000 employees and 8,631,000 customers, and warned that several karaoke and dining brands may be affected.
Read briefiVerify said a new DarkSword variant, P7 DarkSword, reduced its footprint, added on-device wallet theft and remote command handling, and appeared in infrastructure Censys linked to several campaigns.
Read briefEdward Dubrovsky was taken into custody in Pennsylvania and later moved to Texas, while a sealed complaint lists extortion-related charges and federal officials have not confirmed his role in the ShinyHunters case.
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