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Just hours after President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using artificial intelligence tools developed by Anthropic, US forces in the Middle East relied on the company’s Claude system during a major air operation targeting Iran, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.What happenedAccording to the Journal, US Central Command (Centcom), which…
The Trump administration’s decision to designate Anthropic a “supply chain risk” could force Google, Amazon, and Nvidia to divest billions from the AI startup, former Trump AI advisor Dean Ball has warned. The label—historically reserved for foreign adversaries like Huawei—was slapped on Anthropic after it refused to give the Pentagon unrestricted access to its AI….
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has now pushed back against the criticism of his company’s deal with the US Department of War. Altman insisted that the agreement includes stronger safety guardrails than those Anthropic refused to accept before being backlisted. In a blog post published on Saturday (February 28), OpenAI shared excerpts of its contract language,…
Image credit: X (Twitter) Cognizant‘s chief AI officer, Babak Hodjat, has described concerns that artificial intelligence will disrupt IT services companies as “overblown.” This comes after Anthropic’s Claude AI tools wiped out more than a trillion dollars from the stock market. Speaking to Reuters, Hodjat said enterprises still require significant support to deploy, integrate, and…
Markets were rattled after a report projected a 2028 worldwide intelligence crisis, claiming AI would decimate professional roles and spark economic freefall, leading to a steep drop in IBM’s share price. Yet many specialists dispute this doomsday timeline, arguing that AI’s impact will unfold more gradually, with outcomes depending significantly on how policymakers manage labor,…
IBM shares suffered their worst single-day drop in over 25 years on Monday, February 23 after AI startup Anthropic announced that its Claude Code tool can automate the modernisation of COBOL—the decades-old programming language that sits at the heart of IBM’s mainframe business. The stock fell 13.2% to close at $223.35, wiping roughly $40 billion…
CrowdStrike’s CEO George Kurtz countered fears of AI disruption after Anthropic’s new tool impacted cybersecurity stocks. He revealed that Anthropic’s own AI, Claude, stated it couldn’t replace CrowdStrike’s complex platform. Analysts suggest the market overreacted, as the AI tool lacks real-time threat detection capabilities, a core function of companies like CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz…
Borsi Cherny, a leading engineer at Anthropic has now issued a stark warning about the future of internet-based work. According to a report by Benzinga, speaking on Lenny’s Podcast, Cherny predicted that advanced AI agents will soon expand into nearly every type of computer-based job, from software engineering to product management and design. “It’s going…
Anthropic’s new AI tool, Claude Code Security, scans for code vulnerabilities, prompting a multi-billion dollar stock market crash in the cybersecurity sector. While existing scanners use pattern matching, this AI reasons like a human researcher, identifying complex flaws. Despite its research preview status and human oversight requirement for fixes, the market reacted sharply to the…
Cybersecurity stocks took a beating on Friday after Anthropic unveiled Claude Code Security—a new AI-powered tool that scans codebases for vulnerabilities and suggests patches, all built into its Claude Code platform on the web. The announcement sent shockwaves through a sector already bruised by months of AI-driven disruption fears.The damage was swift and broad-based. CrowdStrike,…
