☕️ Microsoft and Google won't cut ties with Anthropic

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🤝 Microsoft and Google won't cut ties with Anthropic

❌ Oracle and OpenAI end plans to expand flagship data center

👀 Trump unveils new US cybersecurity strategy

✍️ Grammarly accused of using identities without permission

🔒 OpenAI launches Codex Security

🕵️ FBI investigates hack of its wiretap system

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• Microsoft and Google said their customers can still access Anthropic's AI tools, including chatbot Claude, through their platforms despite the Pentagon labeling the company "a supply chain risk."
• The Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic after CEO Dario Amodei refused to give the US military "unrestricted access," specifically objecting to mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons uses.
• Both companies said they can keep working with Anthropic on non-defense-related projects, while nearly 500 Google employees and 80 OpenAI staffers signed an open letter supporting Anthropic.

• Oracle and OpenAI have dropped plans to expand a major AI data center in Abilene, Texas, after negotiations stalled over financing issues and shifts in OpenAI's needs.
• Meta is now considering leasing the planned expansion site from developer Crusoe, with Nvidia helping facilitate those talks and paying a $150 million deposit to secure its chips would fill the facility.
• The broader deal between Oracle and OpenAI for 4.5 gigawatts of data center capacity remains on track, and the companies have announced projects in other locations, including one near Detroit.

• The White House released President Trump's seven-page cybersecurity strategy, which breaks from past approaches by putting offensive cyber operations — not just deterrence — at the center of US policy.
• The strategy is built on six pillars, including disrupting adversaries before they attack, cutting back cyber regulations, modernizing federal networks with AI and zero-trust architecture, and securing critical infrastructure.
• For the first time, a national cybersecurity strategy references cryptocurrencies and blockchain, while critics warn that pushing offensive operations and deregulation could expose critical systems and invite retaliation.

• Grammarly's "expert review" feature generates AI writing advice labeled as "inspired by" named experts, including deceased scholars and working journalists, without asking any of those people for permission.
• The Verge found its own editors — Nilay Patel, David Pierce, Sean Hollister, and Tom Warren — listed alongside dozens of tech journalists, with some profiles containing outdated job titles and other inaccuracies.
• The feature's linked sources often led to spammy website copies or completely unrelated pages, suggesting the AI's advice attributed to one person may actually be based on someone else's work.

• OpenAI has launched Codex Security, a new tool inside its Codex programming assistant that helps developers find and fix code vulnerabilities by scanning their repositories and ranking flaws by severity.
• The tool copies a code repository into an isolated container, builds a threat model describing how the program works, then tests discovered flaws in a sandbox to filter out false positives.
• Codex Security started as an internal OpenAI tool called Aardvark and is now available as a research preview for ChatGPT Enterprise, Business, and Edu tiers, plus free for open-source project maintainers.

• The FBI is investigating a breach of its internal systems used to manage wiretaps and surveillance warrants, with suspected Chinese hackers potentially behind the intrusion into this sensitive law enforcement infrastructure.
• Analysts have raised the possibility that the activity could be linked to the Salt Typhoon operation attributed to Chinese intelligence services, which previously targeted U.S. telecommunications and national security networks.
• Officials say the issue has been contained but have released few technical details about how the suspicious activity occurred or whether any court records or case data was accessed.

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• Anthropic’s Claude found 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox over two weeks LINK

• Google's new command line tool can plug OpenClaw into your Workspace data LINK

• Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI LINK

• Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases LINK

• Video AI models hit a reasoning ceiling that more training data alone won't fix, researchers say LINK

• Anthropic's Claude Code subscription may consume up to $5,000 in compute per month while charging the user just $200 LINK

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• Engineer receives $30,000 for exposing a vulnerability affecting 7,000 robot vacuum cleaners — tinkerer just wanted to drive his robot vacuum with a PS5 controller LINK

• X is testing a new ad format that connects posts with products LINK

• Alphabet’s massive pay bet: Sundar Pichai could earn up to $692 million LINK

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