Alibaba has reportedly taken the unusual step of restricting internal use of Claude Code, classifying the tool as “high-risk software” and banning employees from deploying it in their day-to-day work. The report, attributed to people familiar with internal policies, suggests…
Mistral AI has quickly become one of the most talked-about names in the “frontier AI” race—not because it’s the only company trying to build powerful models, but because it’s trying to change who gets to use them. Founded in 2023…
In the last few weeks, “sovereign AI” has stopped being a niche policy phrase and started sounding like a practical requirement—something procurement teams, regulators, and enterprise buyers can’t ignore. The catalyst in the public conversation has been a U.S. policy…
Over the past week, fanfiction communities have found themselves in a familiar but newly intensified argument: what counts as “real” authorship, and how should readers respond when they suspect a work wasn’t written by a human. The difference this time…
In the final stretch before Election Day, many voters are doing something that would have sounded strange just a few years ago: they’re asking artificial intelligence for help deciding who to support. Not in the abstract—who is “better”—but in the…
In fashion, the question “Who designed that dress?” used to be answered with a name, a studio, and a paper trail of sketches, fittings, and approvals. Now it’s increasingly answered with something messier: a prompt, a model version, a dataset…
Markets have a way of rewarding the stories investors want to believe. When stock indexes rise, it feels like confirmation: the economy is fine, risk appetite is back, and whatever was worrying people last quarter has been absorbed. But there’s…
AI is moving fast—and the language around it is moving even faster. If you’ve tried to keep up with product launches, policy debates, or even casual conversations among coworkers, you’ve probably noticed the same thing: the terms multiply, the definitions…
The browser wars used to sound simple: pick a default, set a search engine, and move on. For years, the loudest battles were about where your queries went and which company got the first click after you typed something into…
President Trump is unlikely to support the creation of a dedicated federal AI regulator in the United States, according to Sriram Krishnan, an outgoing tech adviser who recently spoke with the Financial Times. Krishnan’s assessment points to a familiar fault…
Anthropic’s latest push into science isn’t just another “AI for researchers” announcement. At its event “The Briefing: AI for Science,” the company introduced Claude Science, a new AI workbench aimed at turning scattered scientific workflows into something closer to a…
Midjourney is no longer content to be just an image generator. In a move that signals how aggressively the company wants to expand beyond art, it has shared a behind-the-scenes look at a “medical scanner” built around ultrasound—an approach it…