Microsoft’s $3 Billion Oracle Cloud Talks Collapse Over Security Rules
The negotiations had been underway for months, and by most accounts they were close. Microsoft was discussing a deal worth more than $3 billion to lease cloud computing capacity from…
OpenAI’s 2025 Financials Show a Company Scaling Faster Than It Profits
The leaked financial document circulated through Silicon Valley on Tuesday like a piece of evidence. It showed OpenAI’s 2025 results in precise, unflattering detail: revenue of $13.07 billion and research…
Anthropic’s Models Were Switched Off, and the Company Is Still Reeling
The letter arrived at 5:21 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, June 12. It was from the U.S. Commerce Department, and it ordered Anthropic to stop allowing any foreign national to…
SoftBank and OpenAI Take AI Security to Japanese Companies
Masayoshi Son has spent years telling investors that AI will change everything. On Tuesday his company began selling that argument to Japanese corporations, one vulnerability at a time. SoftBank Group,…
Anthropic Disconnects Its Two Strongest Models After U.S. Export Order
The order arrived at 5:21 p.m. on a Friday, stamped with a national-security authorization, and it left Anthropic with little choice. On June 12, the U.S. government directed the AI…
Security Experts Urge White House to Reverse Ban on Anthropic’s Top Models
The message that triggered the whole affair was three words long: “Fix this code.” According to Fortune, that was the extent of the “jailbreak” that led the U.S. government to…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
