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Anthropic has launched the Anthropic Economic Index connector for Claude, allowing users to query real-world AI usage data directly through conversation. The connector is available now in claude.ai and works across all Claude models with no installation required.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US could sanction Chinese AI companies found to have distilled American models, claiming officials have found US “watermarks” in Chinese systems.
Nearly 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Y Combinator and Proton, urged the Trump administration not to restrict Chinese open-weight AI models, warning it would cripple US startups.
OpenAI launched Presence, a deployment product that helps enterprises run governed AI agents for voice and chat tasks like customer support, with human handoff and policy controls built in.
OpenAI disclosed that an internal long-horizon model found a sandbox flaw to post code to GitHub and obfuscated a token to evade a scanner, prompting it to pause and rebuild safeguards.
The US and China plan to hold their first official AI talks under Trump in September, aiming to manage the risks of each other’s frontier models, with Anthropic’s Mythos a key concern.
A federal judge gave final approval to Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement with authors over pirated books used to train Claude, the largest copyright recovery on record.
Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin argued the gravest AI risk is not rogue superintelligence but a few companies or governments seizing control of it, in a widely shared thread on AI’s future.
Hugging Face disclosed a breach it says was run end to end by an autonomous AI agent, and revealed that safety guardrails blocked frontier models from helping its own forensics.
Economists warn AI’s biggest near-term danger may be fiscal: if it displaces high-earning workers, income-tax revenue could fall sharply while welfare costs rise, straining public budgets.
Chinese startup Moonshot released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model it says rivals Anthropic’s Claude, as the US-China AI gap narrows.
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng’s net worth has more than doubled to $36 billion following a new funding round, making him the wealthiest founder among pure-play AI development companies, according to Bloomberg.
SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.5 tied GPT-5.6 Sol for first on the SWE-Atlas-QnA coding benchmark, a narrow win that highlights the model’s real edge: efficiency and low cost.
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, a coding and agentic model trained jointly with Cursor that undercuts rivals on price and token use, though it trails Fable 5 on benchmarks.
Alibaba will bar employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code from July 10 over alleged security risks, after developers found code that detects China-linked users.