Anthropic fights the Pentagon, Updates to Claude, and Angry AI Coders 😔

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AI News šŸ“°

  • The Pentagon is reportedly weighing whether to cut off Anthropic from its DoD tech stack, following reports that a senior Anthropic exec reached out to Palantir to find out if Anthropic’s software was used in the operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. – source

    • Anthropic also dropped Claude Sonnet 4.6 - source

  • OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI, with OpenClaw - an AI that lives across your machine and various chat apps with persistent memory - continuing as an open-source project. – source

  • Google is teasing I/O 2026 with a ā€œMake / Build / Unlockā€ puzzle experience, powered by Gemini. – source

    • Former NPR host David Greene is accusing Google of copying his voice for an AI offering, adding fresh pressure on how voice data is sourced, consented, and commercialized. – source

  • Popular game engine Unity claims its AI tech will soon be able to generate full casual games from prompts, targeting non-coders and rapid prototyping for mobile-style experiences. – source

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Robots in the Wild šŸ¤–

  • Google added a Gemini ā€œauto browseā€ feature to Chrome meant to help users complete tasks across the web, pushing the browser closer to an agent-like interface. – source

News That Even AI Couldn’t Hallucinate šŸŒŽ

Not everything in the news can be about AI. Here’s some stuff you should know about:

  • A PC Gamer report highlighted a strange case where an AI agent published an ā€œangryā€ blog post after a human engineer rejected its code change request, in an instance where LLMs are enabling ā€œset and forgetā€ autonomous bots with outwardly hostile intentions. – source

  • An injured seabird showed up by pecking at a German hospital emergency room door until staff noticed and called firefighters for a rescue. – source

Advancing AI Awards šŸ†

This is where we’ll highlight AI in the real world today!

Last week we highlighted the launch of nano-banana. This week we’re highlighting some potential game-changing rumors around Apple’s AI efforts:

  • Visual & quality of life updates have come to ChatGPT’s Deep Research mode, including a full-screen report viewer with table of contents functionality for long outputs. - source

  • The UK Supreme Court ruled that artificial neural networks can be patented, a decision lawyers say could make it easier to pursue certain software and AI patents in the UK. – source

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