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This Week's Top Five Stories in AI

AI Magazine takes a look at some of the biggest stories from the past few days, featuring the likes of Anthropic, OpenAI and Openreach

A company that makes AI training data has been hit by a security breach.

Meta has paused work with the company, Mercor (which The Verge has profiled), while OpenAI is investigating the security incident, Wired reports.

House Rules for the Agents

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Anthropic Essentially Bans OpenClaw from Claude by Making Subscribers Pay Extra

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PSA: I am not Sam Altman’s sister.

But apparently when you write a story about something, sometimes your profile photo comes up in the image search results for it, and a major X account doesn’t bother clicking through to figure that out.

"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds

Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.

Trump Ignores Biggest Reasons His AI Data Center Buildout is Failing

Nearly 50% of data center projects delayed as China holds key to power infrastructure.

OpenAI Reshuffles Leadership as Fidji Simo Takes Medical Leave

Chief Marketing Officer Kate Rouch will also step back to focus on cancer recovery.

OpenAI executive shuffle includes new role for COO Brad Lightcap to lead 'special projects'

In addition to Lightcap's new job, OpenAI CMO Kate Rouch will be stepping away from the company to focus on cancer recovery, with a plan to return when her health allows.

Anthropic Buys Biotech Startup Coefficient Bio in $400M Deal: Reports

Anthropic has purchased the stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal, according to The Information and Eric Newcomer.

AI companies are building huge natural gas plants to power data centers. What could go wrong?

Meta, Microsoft, and Google are all betting big on new natural gas power plants to run their AI data centers. They may regret it.

AI companies are building huge natural gas plants to power data centers. What could go wrong?

Meta, Microsoft, and Google are all betting big on new natural gas power plants to run their AI data centers. They may regret it.