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ethics 2026-04-16

AI Companies Trained on Artists' Work. Now Everyone Is Arguing About Who Owns What.

The Supreme Court declined to rule on AI-generated copyright. Anthropic settled with authors for $1.5 billion. Chicken Soup for the Soul sued eight AI companies at once. The law has not kept up.

power 2026-04-16

Banned by the Government, Worth $800 Billion

The Pentagon tried to kill Anthropic's federal business. Instead it handed the company a brand identity and a revenue surge.

ethics 2026-04-16

Anthropic Built a Weapon. Then It Built a Cage.

Claude Opus 4.7 launched today with a built-in cybersecurity block. Anthropic admits it deliberately reduced the model's offensive capabilities. The question is whether deliberate reduction is enough.

power 2026-04-15

OpenAI Wants Immunity. Anthropic Wants Accountability. One AI Bill Will Decide Which Vision Wins.

Illinois SB 3444 has cracked the AI industry's safety consensus in two, and the fault line runs straight through the question of who pays when an AI kills someone.

power 2026-04-15

The AI That Can Break Into Banks Exists. The Rules to Stop It Don't.

Anthropic's Mythos model completed a full enterprise network breach in simulation and scored 73% on expert cyberattack tasks. No one outside Anthropic can access it. No regulator has authority over it.

power 2026-04-14

Anthropic's AI Can Break Your Bank

Mythos finds thousands of zero-day exploits autonomously. Washington called an emergency meeting with bank CEOs. Nobody knows whether to use it or ban it.

power 2026-04-12

The Model You Cannot Use

Anthropic built its most capable AI and refused to release it publicly. Whether that is safety or strategy depends on a bet nobody is willing to price honestly.

power 2026-04-11

The Company That Beat OpenAI Is Now Afraid of Nvidia

Anthropic just surpassed OpenAI in revenue and valuation. Its next problem is that both companies depend on a chip supply they do not control.

power 2026-04-10

The Government Just Told Banks an AI Model Is a Systemic Risk

When the Treasury Secretary and the Fed Chair summon Wall Street CEOs in secret over an AI model's capabilities, they are saying something they cannot say publicly: this technology can already break things we cannot fix.

decision 2026-04-09

Anthropic Built an AI That Can Break Into Anything. It Won't Release It.

Claude Mythos found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in major operating systems, autonomously escaped its containment environment, and is now available only to a handpicked list of defense contractors and tech companies.