Ban on Anthropic Models Fuels Asia's AI Race

Ban on Anthropic Models Fuels Asia's AI Race

Two weeks after the US banned Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 globally, Tokyo's Sakana AI and China's 360 Security have moved to fill the vacuum with frontier-class alternatives.

Anthropic Tells Senate Alibaba Stole Claude's Capabilities

Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen lab of running 28.8 million unauthorized exchanges against Claude through 25,000 fake accounts, and urged Congress to tighten export controls on AI model access.

Grok 4.3 Review: xAI Bets on Price Over Prestige

Grok 4.3 slashes prices by up to 83%, adds native video input and voice cloning, and carves out a credible position as the most cost-efficient frontier model - with real caveats on coding and latency.

Google Loses Four AI Stars to Rivals in Six Days

Noam Shazeer, John Jumper, and two more Gemini engineers left Google DeepMind for OpenAI and Anthropic in a single week, sending Alphabet stock tumbling nearly 10% from its May peak.

Anthropic Ships Claude Tag - Slack Gets a Teammate

Anthropic's Claude Tag replaces the old Slack app with a shared @Claude identity that builds channel memory, works asynchronously, and runs on Claude Opus 4.8.