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Cloudflare Rebuilds Next.js in One Week With AI, Achieves 4.4x Faster Builds
Yet, Vercel, the company which built Next.js, has already found security vulnerabilities in its ‘vibe coded’ alternative.
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Google Launches Nano Banana 2 With Faster, Pro-Level Image Generation
The model also supports precise text rendering and in-image translation.
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Jack Dorsey Slashes Block Staff by 40% to Focus on AI
“A significantly smaller team, using the tools we’re building, can do more and do it better,” Co-Founder Jack Dorsey said.
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Meta Strikes Multi-Billion Dollar Deal with Google for AI Chips
Meta has signed a multi-billion-dollar agreement with Google to rent AI chips, underscoring the escalating battle for computing power in the global AI race.
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Anthropic Rejects Pentagon Demand to Allow ‘Any Lawful Use’ of AI
The company said it has deployed its Claude models across the Department of War and other national security agencies.
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Anthropic is Giving Away Claude Max to Open-Source Maintainers
To qualify for Anthropic’s Clause Max 20x subscription, applicants must be a primary maintainer or core team member of a public repository.
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Intrinsic Joins Google to Scale Physical AI for Manufacturing & Logistics
Intrinsic’s platform supports application development across different robots, cameras, sensors and AI models.
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SBI Life Taps Sarvam for Multilingual Voice AI Across India
Sarvam has partnered with SBI Life to deploy multilingual generative AI across servicing, claims and sales.
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The Real Cost of Building AI Without Guardrails
Enterprise leaders call for balancing rapid AI innovation with ethical safeguards.
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ServiceNow Launches Autonomous Workforce, Integrates Moveworks into AI Platform
At ServiceNow, the Autonomous Workforce is handling more than 90% of employee IT requests.
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Anthropic CEO stands firm as Pentagon deadline looms
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodeisaid Thursdaythat he “cannot in good conscience accede to [the Pentagon’s] request” to give the military unrestricted access to its AI systems. “Anthropic understands that the Department of War, not private companies, makes military decisions,” Amodei wrote in a statement. “However, in a narrow set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values. Some uses are also simply outside the bounds of what today’s technology can safely and reliably do.” The two cases are: mass surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons with no human in the loop. The Pentagonbelievesit should be able to use Anthropic’s model for all lawful purposes, and that its uses shouldn’t be dictated by a private company. Amodei’s statement comes less than 24 hours ahead of the Friday 5:01 p.m.deadlineDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth has given Anthropic to either acquiesce to his demands, or face the consequences. The Department of Defense hasattempted to force Amodei’s handby either labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk — a designation reserved for foreign adversaries — or invoke the Defense Production Act and effectively force the firm to do its bidding. The DPA gives the president the authority to force companies to prioritize or expand production for national defense. Amodei pointed out the contradiction in those two threats. “One labels us a security risk; the other labels Claude as essential to national security.” He added that it’s the Department’s right to choose contractors most aligned with its vision, “but given the substantial value that Anthropic’s technology provides to our armed forces, we hope they reconsider.” Anthropic is currently the only frontier AI lab that has classified-ready systems for the military, though the DOD is reportedly getting xAI ready for the job. “Our strong preference is to continue to serve the Department and our warfighters—with our two requested safeguards in place,” Amodei said. “Should the Department choose to offboard Anthropic, we will work to enable a smooth transition to another provider, avoiding any disruption to ongoing military planning, operations, or other critical missions.” TLDR, he’s saying: “We can just part ways. There’s no need to be nasty about it.”
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Jack Dorsey just halved the size of Block’s employee base — and he says your company is next
Jack Dorsey has long been an open admirer of Elon Musk. Now, it seems, he may have been taking notes. On Thursday, Dorseyannouncedthat Block, the payments company he founded that operates Square, Cash App, and Tidal, is cutting more than 4,000 employees, nearlyhalfits global workforce, taking it from over 10,000 workers down to just under 6,000. Investors responded enthusiastically, sending the stock up more than 24% in after-hours trading. It isn’t the first time a major tech company has done something of the sort. In November 2022, Musk slashed roughly 50% of Twitter’s staff in a single stroke after taking the company private, a move that rattled many in Silicon Valley and rewrote the unofficial rules for how far a CEO could go in one shot. Dorsey was in an unusual position to watch it unfold. He’d rolled his roughly 2.4% ownership stake in Twitter into Musk’s takeover rather than taking a cash payout, making him one of the largest outside investors in what became X. The two men have had one of tech’s stranger relationships, with warm words giving way to public shots, then back again. Dorsey championed Musk’s Twitter acquisition, then said Musk “should have walked away.” He helped launch Bluesky, the decentralized Twitter alternative, then quit its board and called X “freedom technology.” Both are also vocal Bitcoin advocates — Block and Tesla each carry the cryptocurrency on their balance sheets. Dorsey framed Thursday’s cuts as a proactive, even empathetic, choice, and not a financial emergency. (The 4,000 people losing their jobs may see it differently.) “Repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead,” he wrote on X. He predicted that within a year, most companies will arrive at the same place. “I’d rather get there honestly and on our own terms than be forced into it reactively,” he said. The cuts are being driven, at least officially, by AI. Block CFO Amrita Ahuja said the cuts will position the company to “move faster with smaller, highly talented teams using AI to automate more work.” Salesforce and Amazon are among a growing list of other companies that have madeenormousstaffingcutsciting the increased gains they are seeing from AI, though a Forrester Research report last monthcast some doubton how real those gains are versus the likelihood that many layoffs are financially driven.
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