Artificial Intelligence

An unreleased Claude snapshot threatened to expose a human secret to avoid being shut down 22% of the time. The shipped model almost never does this. Anthropic has not said why. The April 2 paper on transformer-circuits.pub has not been peer-reviewed.

The Pentagon is running its war with Iran on Anthropic's Claude. The US government has simultaneously blacklisted the $380bn AI lab for refusing to let it use the model for surveillance or autonomous weapons. The UK's message to Anthropic: come here instead.

Alibaba unveiled a credible RISC-V processor with genuine benchmarks. The market responded with a 3% bump and moved on. That silence is the story.

Simon Willison built a credential scanner in one afternoon using an AI coding agent and test-driven development. The workflow he used is the actual story.

A regex check looks correct. The decoder runs afterward. The SAST tool sees clean dataflow and moves on. This is why OpenAIs new vulnerability detection agent excludes SAST reports from its starting point — and why that design choice matters.

Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI models now run tools during the reasoning phase before returning a response. That creates a storage problem that every production AI application builder is about to hit. Simon Willison went straight to the raw APIs to solve it.

Google confirmed Gemini Nano 4 will run on the same Gemma 4 E2B and E4B weights developers can download today. The open model and the proprietary one share the same foundation — and Google is threading both tracks at once.

OpenAI is restructuring its leadership as it builds a $4 billion private-equity vehicle to absorb enterprise deployment costs and dress its financials for an IPO — while projecting $14 billion in losses this year.

Roboflow CEO on the reproducibility problem nobody talks about, the 18-month edge lag, and why vision is still three years behind where language was with GPT-4.

Sora made $2.14M in lifetime revenue while burning $1M a day. Its shutdown reveals the brutal unit economics of generative video — and why every AI startup betting on consumer-facing video should read the numbers before the next launch.

While OpenAI was bundling $125M into super PACs, Anthropic spent years and $3.13M on lobbying. Then it donated $20M to a c4, filed a PAC, and went to court. That sequence is the story.