Anthropic's Claude artificial intelligence chatbot reached the top of Apple's U.S. App Store free-app rankings over the weekend, surpassing OpenAI's ChatGPT in a shift that analysts and company executives attributed to public backlash following a high-profile dispute between Anthropic and the Pentagon.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/02/2026
The U.S. government moved to phase out Anthropic’s AI after a Pentagon contract dispute over whether the military must accept company-set guardrails or retain the right to use the technology for any lawful purpose.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/02/2026
A contract dispute between the Pentagon and Anthropic is turning into an early test of how much control private AI labs can retain over their systems once embedded in sensitive government operations.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/23/2026
A new report from Microsoft's AI Economy Institute estimates AI tools have reached more than 1.2 billion users in under three years, but says adoption remains uneven across countries.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/18/2026
NVIDIA and Meta expanded their multiyear partnership to cover on-premises and cloud deployments for AI training and inference. NVIDIA said it will supply Meta with millions of Blackwell and Rubin GPUs, along with CPUs and networking products.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/18/2026
OpenAI hired Peter Steinberger, founder of the viral open-source AI agent project OpenClaw, to lead development of personal agents. He will join the Codex team.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/17/2026
Ex-GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke’s new startup, Entire, raised a $60 million seed round at a $300 million valuation, backed by Felicis, Madrona, Microsoft’s M12, Basis Set, and prominent angels.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/10/2026
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6 with a million-token context window in beta and introduced agent teams that allow multiple AI agents to coordinate autonomously on coding projects, marking the company's push beyond pure software development into broader enterprise workflows.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/10/2026
Anthropic commits to keeping Claude ad-free, using Super Bowl commercials to mock ChatGPT's plan to introduce advertising and position itself as privacy-focused.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/06/2026
Snowflake and OpenAI signed a multi-year, $200 million partnership to embed OpenAI models directly into Snowflake products, including Snowflake Cortex AI and Snowflake Intelligence.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/03/2026
OpenClaw is a local-first, open-source AI agent across chat apps, praised for productivity but criticized for major security risks.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/03/2026
Data collection is common: Incogni’s review of 442 AI-powered Chrome extensions found that 52% collect user data and 29% collect personally identifiable information, including personal communications, location data, and website content.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/27/2026
Microsoft is pushing deeper into custom AI silicon for inference. Maia 200 is designed to lower the cost of running AI models in production, as inference increasingly drives AI operating expenses. The chip targets real-world bottlenecks, not just raw compute. Microsoft emphasizes low-precision performance, high-bandwidth HBM3e memory, and data-movement and networking features to increase token throughput at scale.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/27/2026