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David Sacks has officially ended his tenure as the White House's AI and crypto czar after exhausting his 130-day limit as a special government employee, raising urgent questions about who steers US AI policy at a pivotal moment in the global race.11 min read

Apple is overhauling Siri in iOS 27 to support rival AI assistants including Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity via a new Extensions system, ending ChatGPT's exclusive role and turning iPhone into the ultimate AI battleground.11 min read

New credit card transaction analysis of 28 million US consumers confirms Claude's paid subscriptions more than doubled since January 2026, driven by viral Pentagon drama, Super Bowl ads, and Claude Code buzz — and the data suggests it's pulling users directly from ChatGPT.11 min read

Anthropic's most powerful AI model, Claude Mythos, was accidentally exposed via an unsecured CMS database, triggering a cybersecurity stock selloff and raising urgent questions about AI safety, operational security, and what 'step-change' capabilities really mean for the industry.11 min read

English Wikipedia passed a near-unanimous ban on LLM-generated article content. Only two exceptions: copyediting your own writing and first-pass translation. The decision addresses AI hallucinations being scraped into future training data — a data poisoning feedback loop.11 min read

Trump's 24-member AI policy council co-chaired by David Sacks features Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Larry Ellison. The foxes are officially guarding the henhouse. What this means for AI regulation, export controls, and safety.11 min read

Three simultaneous regulatory attacks on AI infrastructure: Senators probe 8 companies about 12 gas-powered mega-projects, Warren-Hawley push mandatory energy reporting, and Sanders-AOC introduce an AI Data Center Moratorium Act. The energy debate just went nuclear.11 min read

Meta eliminates 700 roles across Reality Labs, recruiting, and sales while announcing a $921 million per-executive retention package. The metaverse pivot is dead. The AI pivot is expensive. Here is what it means.11 min read

Google rolls out dual import features in Gemini: chat history via .zip file (up to 5GB) and memory via summaries. Seamless migration from ChatGPT, Claude, and others. Unavailable in EU due to data regulations. The most aggressive AI platform consolidation play yet.11 min read

First Lady Melania Trump hosted Figure 03 at the White House AI education summit. The 5'8 autonomous humanoid robot walked through the building, introduced itself in 11 languages, and demonstrated household task capabilities. First-ever AI robot at the White House.11 min read

Cohere releases Transcribe, a 2B parameter open-source ASR model supporting 14 languages. It achieves 5.42 WER and processes 525 minutes of audio per minute on a consumer GPU. Free API access included. The speech recognition market just got commoditized.11 min read

ByteDance integrates Dreamina Seedance 2.0 into CapCut, rolling out to 7 countries. Text/image/video prompts generate up to 15-second clips across 6 aspect ratios. No real faces allowed. Invisible watermarks track off-platform use. The creator economy just changed.11 min read

The ARC-AGI-3 benchmark replaces static puzzles with interactive environments requiring real-time learning. GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 4.6, and Gemini Pro all score below 1%. Humans score 100%. The implications for AGI research are massive.11 min read

Federal Judge Rita F. Lin blocks Trump administration's Pentagon directive labeling Anthropic a 'supply chain risk.' Ruling calls government retaliation for Anthropic's autonomous weapons stance an 'illegal First Amendment violation.'11 min read