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AI Can Build Anything. Social Dandelions Decide What Spreads.

When everyone can build and market with AI, the founders who win are the ones who master how trust spreads through communities

How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research and discovery

Last October we launched Claude for Life Sciences—a suite of connectors and skills that made Claude a better scientific collaborator. Since then, we've invested heavily in making Claude the most capable model for scientific work, with Opus 4.5 showing significant improvements in figure interpretation, computational biology, and protein understanding benchmarks. These advances, informed by working closely with researchers in academia and industry, reflect our commitment to understanding exactly how scientists are using AI to accelerate progress.

Investing in Merge Labs

Progress in interfaces enables progress in computing. Each time people gain a more direct way to express intent, technology becomes more powerful and more useful.

Changes are brewing at Thinking Machines Lab.

Mira Murati, its founder and CEO (as well as ex-CTO of OpenAI), announced that the AI startup has “parted ways with Barret Zoph,” its co-founder and CTO, who is also an ex-OpenAI employee. Murati said that Soumith Chintala will take over as Thinking Machines Lab’s finance chief.

Musk denies awareness of Grok sexual underage images as California AG launches probe

The California Attorney General has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk's xAI after its chatbot Grok began generating nonconsensual sexual images of real women and even children.

OpenAI signs deal, worth $10 billion, for compute from Cerebras

The collaboration will help OpenAI models deliver faster response times for more difficult or time consuming tasks, the companies said.

A single click mounted a covert, multistage attack against Copilot

Exploit exfiltrating data from chat histories worked even after users closed chat windows.

Trump says Nvidia can sell more powerful AI chips to China

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Meta is putting AI chatbots everywhere

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All’s quiet on the xAI investor front.

The Atlantic reached out to a number of top investors in Elon Musk’s AI company in response to the flood of nonconsensual deepfakes generated by Grok on X. They said nothing. Other companies that provide infrastructure to xAI — Nvidia, Google, Apple, Oracle, and AMD — also kept quiet.

Grok was finally updated to stop undressing women and children, X Safety says

California’s AG will investigate whether Musk’s nudifying bot broke US laws.

The multibillion-dollar AI security problem enterprises can't ignore

What are enterprises really worried about with AI? WitnessAI and Ballistic Ventures join Equity to break down the rise of AI security, a potential $1T market, and the risks of autonomous AI agents.