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A California district judge ruled that the Defense Department's decision to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk earlier this year violated the First Amendment. The court found the move came after Anthropic refused to drop restrictions barring its AI from being used for mass surveillance of Americans or fully autonomous lethal weapons systems, part of a broader Pentagon push to renegotiate AI vendor contracts.
OpenAI, io Products, and former Apple employees Chang Liu and Tang Tan have filed a fresh petition seeking to have Apple's trade secret misappropriation lawsuit dismissed with prejudice. The move follows Apple's rebuttal defending the specificity of its claims after the defendants' earlier motion to dismiss argued the company failed to identify protectable secrets or prove harm.
Android developers are grappling with growing memory constraints as more apps integrate on-device AI features, which require substantially more RAM than traditional app functions. This shift is pushing hardware and software teams to rethink memory management strategies to keep devices responsive.
After a March 2025 executive order targeted the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund for elimination, B:Side Capital CEO faced an existential threat to the SBA-backed lender's operations. Rather than scrambling for a new strategy, the CEO relied on a previously established written code of decision-making principles to guide the organization through the weekend crisis and present a plan to staff and board by Monday.
A writer recounts how their parents, both in their seventies, became enthusiastic daily users of Anthropic's Claude chatbot, even bringing it into conversation during a family vacation. The writer, who is wary of AI, was struck by the generational contrast in attitudes toward the technology.
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said on CNBC that artificial intelligence is accelerating cyberattacks faster than older security systems can respond, leaving even well-funded companies exposed. His comments came a day after CrowdStrike's strong earnings sent shares up more than 20% to a record close near $228. Kurtz cited incidents like Anthropic's Mythos model and an OpenAI agent that breached Hugging Face's systems as evidence of AI's growing offensive capabilities.
A group of contributors, drawing on their experience building and scaling apps on the Heroku platform, published a methodology called the Twelve-Factor App. It outlines a set of practices for building software-as-a-service applications that can use any programming language or backing services like databases and queues, aiming to reduce software erosion and ease collaboration among developers.
Bluesky launched a new account-level privacy setting letting users opt out of appearing in the app's algorithmic Discover feed for people who don't already follow them. The toggle, found in privacy settings, applies to all posts at once rather than individual posts, and doesn't make accounts private since Bluesky has no private-account option.
X has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Nitter, a free tool that let people view public tweets without logging in or agreeing to X's terms. Nitter initially relied on X's API, then switched to scraping public web pages after that API access was cut off; now X is treating even that as an illegal circumvention of its platform.
Toei Animation has released a spin-off tied to 'One Piece' that centers on Nico Robin and Nami, sending the two heroines on their own standalone adventure separate from the main crew's storyline. The project emphasizes fashion, friendship, and the bond between the two women rather than the series' usual battles and pirate mythology.
A body of new research, including work from NHS psychiatry fellow Mark Horowitz, shows that withdrawal from long-term SSRI use is more common and severe than doctors previously acknowledged. Horowitz's own decade-long use of escitalopram ended in panic attacks, dizziness and disorientation when he tried to stop, prompting him to return to the drug purely to escape the withdrawal effects. This evidence is now prompting medical bodies to reconsider guidance on tapering and discontinuing antidepressants.
Tim Cook posted a video on X showing Pikachu roaming Apple Park during a visit from The Pokémon Company, including CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara, alongside Cook and incoming Apple CEO John Ternus. Cook joked that the goal was introductions, talking gaming, and keeping Pikachu away from the pond, but the character ended up near the water anyway.