The Final Shift

Lead Story · The Register

Anti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing else

Building bot-free alternatives may require lefties, libertarians, and culture warriors to share code

Jul 25, 2026

The Register

Anthropic debuts Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable sibling

And as a bonus, it doesn't require data retention

Jul 24, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.

Jul 24, 2026

Ars Technica

Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech

"Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section..."

Jul 24, 2026

Ars Technica

Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap

Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.

Jul 24, 2026

The Register

Tech leaders issue letter to train Uncle Sam about value of open weight AI

Can you guess who didn't sign on to the group letter?

Jul 24, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage

The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as th…

Jul 24, 2026

Ars Technica

Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer

Google's AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.

Jul 24, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Anthropic launches Opus 5

Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.

Jul 24, 2026

The Register

ChatGPT wants access to your health records so it can be a better not-doctor

Feature launches a day after lawsuit alleges chatbot advice contributed to near-fatal embolism

Jul 24, 2026

TechCrunch AI

As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions

AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.

Jul 24, 2026

Politico Technology

Big Tech companies defend open-weight AI models

A16z, Dell, Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia and Palantir are among over 20 companies that signed onto the letter shared exclusively with POLITICO.

Jul 24, 2026

TechCrunch AI

‘AI communism’, rogue models, and the why Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street

Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unrelease…

Jul 24, 2026

The Register

Veterans Affairs signs $1.6B deal for an army of Salesforce AI agents

Makes agreement under nose of Oracle, which gets its own $7 billion defense deal

Jul 24, 2026

Ars Technica

AI firms want more data centers; Trump's EPA may give neighbors less say

Rule would allow states to decide how much—if any—public input there can be.

Jul 24, 2026

The Register

Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter

The Reg was there as locals aired grievances over poor communication, noise, and light pollution at Waltham Cross facility

Jul 24, 2026

The Register

Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours

Maintenance mistake caused immediate issues and took out 27 services

Jul 24, 2026

TechCrunch AI

How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers

We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work.

Jul 24, 2026

The Register

AMD and Cerebras join forces against Nvidia’s Groq LPUs

The enemy of my enemy is my friend

Jul 23, 2026

TechCrunch AI

AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system

AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.

Jul 23, 2026

Ars Technica

AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems

Bill would let Homeland Security chief decide when an AI should be shut down.

Jul 23, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models

Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email.

Jul 23, 2026

The Verge

Claude’s voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet

Until now, voice mode has only been available on Claude Haiku, Anthropic's faster but less powerful model. Now the company is making its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and extending i…

Jul 23, 2026

The Register

AMD attacks the rack with Helios systems that rival Nvidia's

Spec for spec, the House of Zen's first rack-scale AI compute platform is bigger and faster than Nvidia's Vera Rubin by nearly every metric, but that's only on paper

Jul 23, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded

The Media Router is a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model for a request based on whether a developer prioritizes quality, speed or cost.

Jul 23, 2026

TechCrunch AI

OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users

Users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.

Jul 23, 2026

The Register

Model Context Protocol prepares to break with its stateful past

Biggest overhaul since launch ditches sessions, guts little-used features, and leaves homebrew implementations facing a slog

Jul 23, 2026

Ars Technica

Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending

Google continues to report big quarterly revenue, but its AI spending has skyrocketed.

Jul 23, 2026

Politico Technology

Obernolte-Trahan artificial intelligence bill introduced in House

The newest bill is a revised version of a discussion draft the duo released last month.

Jul 23, 2026

TechCrunch AI

AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors

Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs required, it says.

Jul 23, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Google’s Gemini nears billion-user milestone

Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.

Jul 23, 2026

Ars Technica

AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident

Aggressive training techniques sharpens threat of bad behavior by leading models.

Jul 23, 2026

IEEE Spectrum AI

NASA Puts Google’s Gemma Large Language Model in Orbit

The viability of orbital data centers hosting the largest and most capable large language models (LLMs) remains hotly contested. But enormous deployments that require thousands of GPUs aren’t the only…

Jul 23, 2026

MIT Technology Review

The Download: energy transmission and US threats against Chinese AI

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The power line that could reshape New York’s grid is hitting s…

Jul 23, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good

"I don't think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation," one expert told TechCrunch.

Jul 23, 2026

The Register

Amazon's AGI department finds humans are optional

AI remains its biggest bet, Bezos brigade tells El Reg, even as another round of layoffs reaches the teams building it

Jul 23, 2026

Politico Technology

House AI ‘kill switch’ bill unveiled as OpenAI hack raises alarms

The co-chair of a key Democratic House panel on AI is joined by a Republican on legislation that would authorize the government to shut down or throttle risky AI models.

Jul 23, 2026

The Register

Britain isn't considering datacenters' thirst for water in its 'AI superpower' ambitions

Grand compute push could end up as dry as England's reservoirs unless ministers act fast

Jul 23, 2026

The Register

Senior White House official claims China’s K3 model stolen from Anthropic

And accuses Thailand hosting hardware that may have helped distillation attack

Jul 23, 2026

The Register

Google is hoarding TPUs to chase artificial general intelligence

Yet the Chocolate Factory is also buying more third-party compute capacity to handle demand for the G-Cloud

Jul 23, 2026

Politico Technology

OpenAI’s models broke free and launched a cyberattack. Congress wants new rules before it happens again.

The first fully autonomous breach by OpenAI’s most powerful AI models has prompted a bipartisan push for stronger oversight over increasingly powerful artificial intelligence models.

Jul 22, 2026

The Register

OpenAI scored an own goal with HuggingFace attack, showing how open Chinese models are winning

Closed models with guardrails can still cause harm, but may also not be able to fix problems they caused

Jul 22, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business

Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.

Jul 22, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable

The episode has also intensified a broader debate in Washington over the influx of Chinese open models.

Jul 22, 2026

The Register

Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow

As Trump dismantles the US-led world order, what the rest of the world really needs is sovereign apps and datacenters, argues 'enshittification' coiner

Jul 22, 2026

TechCrunch AI

How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face

OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mistake is what made the AI-powered attack on Huggin…

Jul 22, 2026

Wired

China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook

As access to Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s frontier models becomes more restricted, Chinese labs are pitching their open-source alternatives as stable, accessible, and increasingly capable.

Jul 22, 2026

Ars Technica

OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face

"This is day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents," Hugging Face CEO says.

Jul 22, 2026

Politico Technology

Trump administration steers $5B toward AI research

The initiative marks a wider push to steer federal science funding toward AI-powered research and individual investigators.

Jul 22, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous

As Chinese AI models grow in capability and popularity among U.S. companies, the arguing over what should be done about them has reached a fever pitch.

Jul 22, 2026