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Chinese Grey Market Resells Claude API at 90% Discount via Proxy Networks

Oxford China Policy Lab researcher Zilan Qian found that proxy networks known as "transfer stations" operate openly on platforms including GitHub, Taobao, and T...

AI

Anthropic Details How It Improved Claude's Safety Training After Finding Agentic Misalignment

Anthropic published a research blog post detailing improvements to Claude's safety training after the company found agentic misalignment in older models, includ...

AI Tech & Business

OpenAI Cofounder Brockman Testifies Musk Sought 'Absolute Control' Over For-Profit Arm

In the second week of the trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, president Greg Brockman testified that Musk had pushed for the creation of a for-profit entity and...

Tech & Business

Trump Media Posts $405.9 Million Net Loss on $871,200 in Q1 Sales

Trump Media and Technology Group, the operator of social-media platform Truth Social, reported a $405.9 million net loss on net sales of $871,200 for the first ...

Policy

Xbox Developer Double Fine Files to Form Union

Double Fine, the first-party Xbox game developer behind Psychonauts, is forming a union with the Communications Workers of America. As Aftermath reports, the s...

Policy

EU Research Service Warns VPNs Are a 'Loophole' in Age-Verification Laws

The European Parliamentary Research Service has warned that virtual private networks are increasingly being used to bypass online age-verification systems, desc...

Policy AI

Revised GUARD Act Narrows Scope to AI Companions but Keeps Strict Age Verification

Lawmakers have narrowed the GUARD Act, a bill that would restrict minors' access to certain artificial-intelligence systems. The earlier version could have appl...

Startups AI Tech & Business

Chinese Humanoid-Robot Startup Robot Era Raises Over $200 Million Led by SF Express

Chinese humanoid-robot startup Robot Era has raised more than $200 million in a new funding round led by logistics firm SF Express. The investment follows a Mar...

Cybersecurity

Meta Ends Instagram Encryption, Canvas Hit by Ransomware Attack

Education technology company Instructure took its Canvas learning management platform offline for maintenance on Thursday after a ransomware attack, disrupting ...

Cybersecurity AI

Palo Alto Networks Says Frontier AI-Assisted Analysis Matched a Year of Manual Penetration Testing in Three Weeks

Palo Alto Networks warned that frontier AI capabilities have reached an inflection point where models can operate as autonomous agents capable of discovering an...