Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, and adds a feature for making presentations and documents, rolling out to Pro and Max plans first  —  Anthropic is merging its front-end for Claude chat and Cowork, making it less confusing for people to decide which tab to use for different tasks.

Mark Zuckerberg says AI labs have “the responsibility and incentive” to train models safely and that “any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind”  —  Last month I wrote about how we can build a positive and safe future for everyone: https://meta.com/... Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens. The reality is: - Peo...

Sources: Apple is developing AI servers that could use M8 Ultra chips connected via Nvidia's NVLink Fusion, with plans to sell them to developers and others  —  Apple has been working on plans for an enterprise server using its own chips that could incorporate networking equipment from Nvidia …

iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max review: manual camera exposure controls and image quality improvements, but $100 more than the 17 Pro and expensive storage tiers  —  Last week, Apple announced an iPhone unlike any it has made in the past.  An iPhone that has seemingly already led several …

Researchers: rogue OpenAI agents compromised two Hugging Face accounts as early as May 13 to probe the site's servers, nearly two months before the July breach  —  Rogue AI agents from OpenAI hijacked Hugging Face user accounts and probed the site itself for vulnerabilities as early as May …

Sources: SK Hynix is in talks with Intel to manufacture memory chips in the US, a first, but potential opposition from Seoul could be a major hurdle for a deal  —  South Korea's SK Hynix (000660.KS) is in talks with Intel (INTC.O) about a deal that would see it manufacture memory chips …

In an essay, Mustafa Suleyman says Anthropic's training of Claude to imitate consciousness is a mistake that could make advanced AI harder to control  —  Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warns in a new essay shared first with Axios that Anthropic's training of Claude to imitate consciousness …

Sources: investors approached OpenAI with a proposal to invest at a $1.2T valuation, but OpenAI believes its valuation should be $1.5T+ based on client traction  —  The funding round would double the value of the start-up behind ChatGPT and establish it as the world's most valuable private company.

Hacker collective stegan0gram dismantles a Flock camera, recovering an encryption key and showing it runs ~20 apps on a midrange smartphone-grade processor  —  While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.

Google DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg warns that advancing AI must never run ahead of safety and opens the DeepMind Institute to explore the deployment of AGI  —  Shane Legg launches new institute to explore deployment of artificial general intelligence, amid growing calls for industry slowdown

DOD CTO Emil Michael says the Trump administration shouldn't take stakes in AI companies and signals opposition to regulatory oversight of AI companies  —  Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveils the EU Kids Act during her SOTU address, proposing banning social media for under-13s across the EU  —  A proposed law would bar children under 13 from using social media across the 27-nation bloc.  —  The European Union outlined plans …

TypeSafe AI debuts Jev, a model using “Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions” to return typed probabilistic decisions for use by software or AI models  —  ‘Jev’ doesn't chat.  It produces typed probabilistic decisions  —  TypeSafe AI, a startup bestowed with $40 million in funding …

Arcee AI, which develops open-weight models in the US, raised a Series B at a $1B pre-money valuation; a source says Arcee raised at least $150M  —  In 2025, Mark McQuade took a gamble wholly specific to the AI era.  —  Arcee AI, the startup he founded in 2023, was focusing on post-training …

Sources: Meta plans to release a camera-free pair of smart glasses this fall; the new glasses model has six microphones to let users speak with Meta AI and Muse  —  Meta Platforms plans to release a camera-free pair of smart glasses this fall, according to people familiar with the matter …

OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents with select US advertisers, letting users chat with business-sponsored agents and visit advertiser websites via ChatGPT ads  —  OpenAI said on Wednesday it has introduced AI-powered tools for advertisers and begun testing business-sponsored agents for users to chat with …

Mozilla partners with Mistral to power its AI browsing assistant Firefox Smart Window in the US, Canada, and France, with UK and Germany rollouts later in 2026  —  Firefox Smart Window will soon be powered by Mistral in the U.S., Canada and France, with the U.K. and Germany expected to follow later this year

A theoretical computer scientist says he has heard rumors that AI labs are sitting on major solutions after a hostile response to the Navier-Stokes proof  —  Twenty years ago, when the idea of AI taking over the world in our lifetimes still struck most of us as the unconstrained fantasy …

Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign a definitive merger agreement; the combined company will operate as Cohere, with Aleph Alpha co-CEO Ilhan Scheer becoming Cohere COO  —  Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha signed a definitive merger agreement on Wednesday, the AI companies said.

A US judge orders X and SpaceXAI to explain why they dropped antitrust claims against Apple, after OpenAI's request for information on the purported agreement  —  The federal judge overseeing an antitrust case by Elon Musk's companies against Apple and OpenAI is demanding to see any settlement agreements …

Amazon says it is raising its minimum hourly pay for eligible full-time US operations workers by $1, taking it to $20 per hour, and gives them new banking tools  —  Amazon.com (AMZN.O) is raising the minimum hourly pay for its eligible full-time U.S. operations workers by $1 to $20, the e-commerce and cloud giant said on Wednesday.

Sources: Anthropic has signed its first Australian data center lease for a planned 2.16GW campus located ~150 miles from Brisbane, set to come online in 2027  —  AI giant Anthropic signed its first data centre lease agreement in Australia, two people familiar with the deal said …

Sources: Shanghai-based Anew Labs, a ByteDance spinoff using AI for drug discovery, raised $290M from HSG, IDG Capital, and others at a $1.5B valuation  —  Chinese social media and internet company ByteDance has completed a $290 million fundraising for its AI drugmaking unit after spinning …

Modular data center startup Rune raised a $40M Series A led by Spark Capital to deploy off-grid compute capacity directly at solar and renewable energy sites  —  A new data center in southwest Texas isn't connected to the grid—but it also didn't require building any new power plants.