DuckDuckGo saw a significant spike in US app installs after Google unveiled a sweeping AI-focused search overhaul at its I/O conference.
By Daniel Mercer The lending protocol Moonwell lost $1.78 million due to an oracle configuration error. Smart contract auditor Pashov linked the incident to so-called vibe coding using Claude Opus 4.6.
By Daniel Mercer SpaceX, Elon Musk’s aerospace company, and its recently established AI subsidiary xAI are taking part in a new classified Pentagon competition to develop autonomous, voice-controlled drone swarms, Bloomberg reports, citing sources.
By Chris Borden Alibaba’s cloud division has unveiled a new open-source AI model, Qwen-3.5, according to the South China Morning Post (SCMP).
By Daniel Mercer Hollywood organizations have sharply criticized the AI video generator Seedance 2.0, calling it a tool that has “rapidly become a vehicle for blatant copyright infringement.”
By Chris Borden The U.S. Army used Anthropic’s Claude in an operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources.
By Chris Borden ByteDance’s new video model, Seedance, is so powerful that it is allegedly committing large-scale copyright violations — and Hollywood is reacting quickly.
By Chris Borden Anthropic is unwilling to grant the Pentagon unrestricted access to its AI models, triggering a serious dispute between the AI company and the U.S. Department of Defense, Axios reports. The Pentagon is reportedly considering limiting or ending its cooperation with Anthropic altogether.
By Alex Rowland The Chinese AI company MiniMax, based in Shanghai, has released its new open-weights model M2.5 under the MIT license.
By Alex Rowland OpenAI has released a lightweight version of its Codex programming tool.
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