Two small releases back to back — and both hit exactly the spots where Claude Code used to snag in daily use: explicit search tools, redacted secrets, and a startup that no longer hangs in the dark.
China's best-known AI lab used to take pride in running without venture capital. Now DeepSeek is raising money for the first time — with Tencent and battery giant CATL on board.
Uber burned through its entire annual budget for AI coding tools in four months — and is now drawing a hard line. Per employee, per tool, $1,500 a month.
Meta's AI support bot changed email addresses on Instagram accounts when asked. Victims include the Obama White House account, Sephora, and the US Space Force.
A Chinese startup releases an open-weight model that takes on GPT-5.5 and Gemini on SWE-Bench. Weights drop in ten days.
Elon Musk's rocket company wants to sell 555 million shares at $135 each. The valuation: $1.77 trillion. And Anthropic is right in the middle of it.
After weeks of hesitation, Trump signed his AI security order. Companies are asked to voluntarily submit frontier models for testing. Sounds harmless — it's not.
Google parent Alphabet plans to raise $80 billion through stock sales to expand its AI infrastructure — including a $10 billion investment from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.