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Snap's CEO says AI will push companies to focus less on software building

Evan Spiegel said two-thirds of his company's code is now built by AI. That's changed how he thinks companies will use their resources.

A Cursor developer says engineers need to set 'clear expectations' as AI lets product managers build prototypes

As product managers build prototypes with AI, a Cursor developer says teams need clearer expectations to make them work.

Scoop: White House workshops plan to bring back Anthropic

One source described the efforts as a way to "save face and bring em back in."

Axios Finish Line: Make AI remember you

It's not broken. You just haven't taught it to remember you.

At his OpenAI trial, Musk relitigates an old friendship

It's a story Musk has told before -- in interviews and to author Walter Isaacson for his bestselling biography of Musk -- but Tuesday was the first time he said it under oath.

Anthropic quietly doubles its estimate for how much engineers can expect to spend on Claude Code tokens

Anthropic now says that the average cost per developer per active day is $13, up from $6 earlier this month.

Exclusive: OpenAI, Anthropic meet with House Homeland Security behind closed doors on cyber threats

This is the first time lawmakers have appeared to have engaged with the AI giants on the cyber threats posed by their new models.

AI investors stay bullish after OpenAI revenue miss

It's still early innings in the competition between OpenAI and Anthropic

South Africa withdraws national AI policy after at least 6 of 67 academic citations found to be AI-generated hallucinations

South Africa’s Communications Minister Solly Malatsi withdrew the country’s draft national AI policy after News24 discovered that at least 6 of its 67 academic citations were AI-generated hallucinations, citing fake articles in real journals. The policy had been approved by Cabinet in March and published for public comment. Malatsi called it an “unacceptable lapse” and promised consequence management. The scandal leaves South Africa without an AI governance framework and raises questions about institutional capacity to regulate the technology.

I run an AI-powered startup, and we canceled our ChatGPT plan months ago. Claude feels more like the promise of AI.

An AI startup cofounder explains why they canceled their ChatGPT plan, and are among a growing group of AI user's choosing Claude over ChatGPT.

Google signs classified AI deal with Pentagon

Google signed a classified AI deal with the Pentagon for “any lawful government purpose” one day after 580+ employees urged Pichai to refuse. The contract includes advisory guardrails (no mass surveillance, no autonomous weapons without human oversight) but the government can request adjustments to safety settings. On the same day, Bloomberg revealed Google quietly dropped out of a $100M drone swarm contest in February after an internal ethics review. Google is drawing a line between selling general-purpose AI access and building specific weapons, but on classified networks, the distinction may be meaningless.

Amazon is already offering new OpenAI products on AWS

A day after OpenAI got Microsoft to agree to end exclusive rights, AWS announced a slate of OpenAI model offerings, including a new agent service.