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Server racks inside a commercial data center, the kind of infrastructure frontier AI models run on. Photo: BalticServers.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Washington Reopens the Gates on Anthropic's Fable and Mythos After a Security Standoff

The US government has reversed the foreign-access curbs on Anthropic's most powerful Claude models, ending a standoff that pitted national security caution against the company's push for global reach.

6 Jul 2026 ·6 min read
Inside Samsung's Pyeongtaek semiconductor plant during a 2022 tour. Photo: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Anthropic Courts Samsung Foundry to Forge Its Own AI Chip

Anthropic has opened preliminary talks with Samsung Electronics to manufacture a bespoke AI accelerator on the chipmaker's 2-nanometer foundry, a step that would loosen its dependence on Nvidia and hand Samsung a marquee foundry customer.

6 Jul 2026 ·6 min read
Tesla Cybercab robotaxi parked at Santana Row in California. Photo: Dllu, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Tesla Sends Driverless Robotaxis Into Miami With No Human in the Front Seat

Tesla opened fully unsupervised Robotaxi rides in western Miami-Dade County on July 3, its first market outside Texas and California and the first launched with no safety monitor in the car.

6 Jul 2026 ·6 min read
Meta corporate signage outside its headquarters as the company weighs a cloud compute business. Photo: Nokia621, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Meta's Compute Pivot Wipes Billions Off Neocloud Valuations in a Single Session

A single report that Meta intends to resell its surplus AI computing power sent its shares up nearly 9 percent and hammered the neocloud providers that supply it, exposing how much of their revenue rests on one buyer.

6 Jul 2026 ·6 min read
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark speaks at an artificial intelligence conference. Photo: Mvolz, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Claude Sonnet 5 Trades a Million-Token Memory for Enterprise-Grade Prices

Anthropic made Claude Sonnet 5 the default engine inside Claude Code, pairing a native one-million-token context window with promotional rates that read as a signal to public-market investors.

6 Jul 2026 ·6 min read
SK Hynix high-bandwidth memory modules on display at a trade show. Photo: 4300streetcar, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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How a Single HBM Order Book Rattled the AI Trade

High-bandwidth memory has become the load-bearing wall of the AI buildout. When doubts about its order book surfaced, Samsung and SK Hynix shed a combined 290 billion dollars in a day.

6 Jul 2026 ·7 min read