U.K. and Japan Sign $24 Billion Technology Pact
The signing table was set in London, and the two prime ministers put their names to an agreement worth more than £18 billion, or about $24 billion, covering artificial-intelligence research,…
The FBI’s Fake Town, Built for Real Attacks
No one lives there, but the town has a hospital, a hotel and a power plant. The FBI built the 22,000-square-foot replica to rehearse something that is hard to rehearse…
Amazon CEO’s Washington Meetings Preceded Order to Disable Anthropic Models
The conversations took place in Washington this week, and their consequences reached the artificial-intelligence industry within days. Andy Jassy, Amazon’s chief executive, told senior officials in the Trump administration that…
U.S. Orders Anthropic to Disable Two Models Worldwide
Anthropic executives got the word by phone on a weekday morning: the United States government was directing the company to take its two most powerful artificial-intelligence models offline, everywhere, at…
Microsoft Fixes 206 Security Flaws in a Month, Including Three Zero-Days
The patch list ran 206 entries long, and for the security teams that track such things, the size alone was the story. Microsoft fixed 206 vulnerabilities in a single month’s…
Meta Cuts Off Manus as It Unwinds a $2 Billion Deal
Inside Meta Platforms, the internal memo said it plainly: Manus is being “sunset.” Staff were told to migrate existing Manus projects onto Meta’s own systems and not to begin new…
Co-Packaged Optics Hit a Yield Wall, Pushing AI’s Next Step to 2028
The technology that was supposed to solve AI’s bandwidth problem has run into a manufacturing one. Co-packaged optics, the approach that puts lasers and switch silicon in a single package,…
Anthropic Brings Its Most Powerful Model to the Public
SAN FRANCISCO—The pricing page went live Tuesday with a number that told the story: $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens for Claude Fable 5, less…
EU Rejects Apple’s Siri AI Exemption Request
BRUSSELS—The reply arrived one day after Apple told the world its new voice assistant would not come to Europe: no. The European Commission on June 9 rejected Apple’s request for…
Microsoft Pulls Dozens of GitHub Repositories After Credential-Stealing Attack
SAN FRANCISCO — The malware waited inside configuration files that looked routine. A Claude settings file, a Cursor rule, a VS Code task — each harmless on its own, each…
