A prominent US senator has called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for “gross cybersecurity negligence,” citing the company’s continued use of an obsolete and vulnerable form of encryption that Windows uses by default. In a letter to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Sen. Ron Wyden (D–Ore.) said an investigation his office conducted into...
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Developers joke about “coding like cavemen” as AI service suffers major outage
On Wednesday afternoon, Anthropic experienced a brief but complete service outage that took down its AI infrastructure, leaving developers unable to access Claude.ai, the API, Claude Code, or the management console for around half an hour. The outage affected all three of Anthropic’s main services simultaneously, with the company posting at 12:28 pm Eastern that...
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Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic
Microsoft’s Office 365 suite will soon incorporate AI models from Anthropic alongside existing OpenAI technology, The Information reported, ending years of exclusive reliance on OpenAI for generative AI features across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. The shift reportedly follows internal testing that revealed Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 model excels at specific Office tasks where OpenAI’s...
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Apple Introduces iPhone 17, iPhone Air and Updated AirPods at Annual Event
The Silicon Valley giant also introduced updates to its traditional smartphones, as well as its AirPods and Apple Watch.
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Nvidia Accuses Rivals of Being A.I. Doomers as US Debates Sale of Chips to China
Rankling national security experts, the chipmaker has stepped up attacks on lawmakers who are pushing restrictions.
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United Arab Emirates Joins U.S. and China in Giving Away A.I. Technology
The Persian Gulf nation has “open sourced” technology meant to compete with OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek.
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ASML to Invest $1.5 Billion in Mistral, the French A.I. Start-Up
ASML, the Dutch maker of semiconductor equipment, is investing about $1.5 billion in Mistral, the French A.I. start-up.
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Why Mark S. Zuckerberg Is Suing Facebook’s Parent Company
Facebook has repeatedly flagged his accounts, he says, for “impersonating” the company’s founder, Mark E. Zuckerberg.
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Claude’s new AI file creation feature ships with deep security risks built in
On Tuesday, Anthropic launched a new file creation feature for its Claude AI assistant that enables users to generate Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and other documents directly within conversations on the web interface and in the Claude desktop app. While the feature may be handy for Claude users, the company’s support documentation also warns that...
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SAP warns of high-severity vulnerabilities in multiple products
As hackers exploit a high-severity vulnerability in SAP’s flagship Enterprise Resource Planning software product, the software maker is warning users of more than two dozen newly detected vulnerabilities in its other widely used products, including a security flaw with a maximum-severity rating of 10. SAP on Tuesday said the highest-severity vulnerability—with a rating of 10...