Alibaba bans employees from using Claude Code as Anthropic moves to close China access loopholes, and Sam Altman rules out any OpenAI IPO below $1 trillion. Willison finds Claude's newest models breaking his edit tooling, Pentagon emails show why Anthropic got blacklisted, and Hubble marks the Fourth of July with a 13-billion-year-old star cluster.

TechCrunch · Jul 4

Alibaba will prohibit staff from using Anthropic’s Claude Code starting July 10, citing security concerns.

Investing.com (FT) · Jul 3

The Financial Times reports Anthropic is closing loopholes Chinese firms used to access Claude via overseas subsidiaries.

Gizmodo · Jul 2

Gizmodo publishes emails showing Pentagon-Anthropic contract talks collapsed over limits on autonomous weapons use.

Bloomberg Opinion · Jul 1

Parmy Olson argues the terms Anthropic negotiated with Washington to restore Fable 5 access remain undisclosed.

Motley Fool · Jul 5

The piece weighs OpenAI against SpaceX as IPO prospects after Altman ruled out a sub-$1-trillion valuation.

Forbes · Jul 1

Palantir’s CEO told CNBC that leading AI firms overcharge clients and misuse their data.

Forbes · Jul 3

Jason Kirsch argues AI infrastructure spending is still early-stage, favoring energy investments over pricier chip stocks.

Simon Willison · Jul 4

Willison finds Claude Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 send malformed edit-tool calls that older models never did.

Simon Willison · Jul 3

Current AI released an index cataloging 421 open source AI products across 14 categories, data on GitHub.