📰 News Signal's Whittaker: AI Chatbots Are Not Your Friends, and Agentic AI Is a Backdoor
Meredith Whittaker dismantles the 'AI as companion' framing and warns that agentic AI needs your credit card, browser, and Signal — calling it a backdoor.
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📰 News Trump Says Anthropic Isn't a Threat Anymore. The Export Controls Still Stand.
Political warmth from Trump at G7, but the bureaucratic machinery hasn't moved. Anthropic's $965B IPO hangs on regulatory clarity that one interview can't deliver.
📰 News A Brussels Thought Experiment Went Viral. Then Trump Banned Anthropic's Models the Next Day.
A thinktank fiction about Europe falling behind the US and China on AI has been read by EU parliament members and discussed in UK-German diplomatic channels. Its predictions are already half-true.
📰 News From PGP to Mythos: The US Government Has Never Successfully Export-Controlled Software
Three decades of failed export controls on encryption, spyware, and now AI models suggest the Anthropic ban will restrict the wrong people.
📰 News Nobel Laureate John Jumper Leaves DeepMind for Anthropic — Google's Brain Drain Is Now a Pattern
AlphaFold co-inventor and 2024 Nobel laureate John Jumper announced he's leaving Google DeepMind after 9 years to join Anthropic. His tweet hit 548K views in hours.
📰 News Huawei's Chips Just Trained a 1.6-Trillion-Parameter Model. The Export Control Era Has a Problem.
Huawei Ascend 910C chips completed full-parameter post-training of DeepSeek-V4-Pro's 1.6 trillion parameters across 1,000+ chips, 1,500 iterations, zero errors — China's first domestic-training milestone.
📰 News Anthropic Pauses Claude Agent SDK Billing Changes After Developer Backlash — But the Reprieve Is Temporary
Anthropic paused Claude Agent SDK billing changes hours before they were set to take effect. Power users who would have faced major cost increases get a reprieve — but for how long?
📰 News Delete Doesn't Mean Deleted: A Federal Judge Just Proved It With Your ChatGPT History
A federal judge forced OpenAI to hand over 20 million conversations users thought they deleted. There is no legal privilege for what you tell ChatGPT.
📰 News Amazon Dropped the Sam Altman Biopic. The $50 Billion OpenAI Deal Tells You Why.
Amazon MGM shelved Luca Guadagnino's nearly-finished Altman biopic months after a $50B OpenAI deal. The timing is not subtle.
📰 News The UK's Top AI Regulator Just Resigned Over 'Inappropriate Humour' — The First Ever ICO Exit
The UK's AI and data regulator has lost its leader — the first ICO commissioner to ever resign mid-term, amid a workplace investigation and pending government reforms.
📰 News OpenAI's Enterprise AI Sales Lead Is Out After Five Months — The Talent Churn Problem Nobody Wants to Name
Barret Zoph left OpenAI in 2024, co-founded Mira Murati's rival lab, came back in January 2026, and is now gone again. OpenAI's enterprise push just lost its leader.
📰 News Weibo's 3-Billion-Parameter VibeThinker Matches Frontier Models — and Sparks a Benchmark War
Weibo's VibeThinker-3B matches models 224x its size on math benchmarks. Real-world testing reveals gaps. The benchmark vs reality tension is the real story.