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Brian Rezendes anticipates his retirement years will be filled with AI agents, algorithms, and APIs — along with the occasional vacation with his wife.Rezendes, a former pool business owner, retired in April from a retail job in rural North Dakota. Like many retirees, the 64-year-old envisioned his post-work years as a time to relax, travel, and stay active. He did not expect to be neck-deep in conversations with chatbots, vibe coding websites, or building YouTube channels. Though he’d always been interested in technology, he rarely delved into the deeper plumbing behind it until a few years ago, when he became…

Anthropic’s sudden move to suspend access to its newest AI models following a U.S. government directive has raised fresh questions across the global technology industry. In India, the decision has reignited a long-running debate over whether one of the world’s largest AI markets can afford to rely on technologies built and controlled elsewhere. The announcement came late Friday, when Anthropic said it had received the U.S. government directive requiring it to suspend access to its recently launched Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all foreign nationals, including its own foreign national employees. The move came shortly after the company…

Meta has begun dismantling its $2 billion acquisition of Manus, completing an operational separation from the Chinese-founded AI startup and halting data sharing between the two companies. This is the most concrete step yet toward complying with a divestiture order Beijing issued roughly two months ago on national security grounds. Meta has cut Manus off from its internal systems, Bloomberg reported, preventing employees from using Manus tools for internal projects as the two companies move toward a full separation. Meanwhile, according to May reports, the co-founders of Manus have held preliminary discussions about raising approximately $1 billion from outside investors…

OpenAI said it’s “committed to learning” after a coalition of states launched an investigation into how the tech startup’s products impact users.An OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement that it’s taking the states’ concerns “seriously” and will “engage constructively with their offices.””Today’s ChatGPT includes a more protective experience for minors and people experiencing difficult situations, with safeguards that direct them to real-world resources and trusted human contacts,” the spokesperson said.”None of this changes what families have gone through, but we are committed to learning, improving, and getting this right,” they added.New York State Attorney General Letitia James served OpenAI a…

Professional services firm KPMG has pulled a report titled, “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI,” after numerous organizations said the report’s claims about their AI usage were untrue. Research group GPTZero identified a number of inaccuracies in the report, which was published in October 2025. GPTZero told the FT that the inaccuracies stemmed from AI hallucinations. In other words, the professional services firm appears to have used AI to help write a report about AI.  UBS, the UK’s National Health Service, Swiss Federal Railways, and Transport for London all told the FT that the report’s claims about their…

More than 200 data centers are going up in dozens of competitive House districts — and neither party knows how to handle their political fallout heading into the midterms.The energy-hungry computing infrastructure being built to meet the explosive demand for artificial intelligence has sparked opposition to rising electric bills, water consumption, use of farmland and influence of the tech industry. That stew of frustration has made data centers the target of campaign ads and a populist fervor that’s toppled local elected leaders.It has also become a rogue element in the races that will decide which party controls the House: The…

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy may have been the source of security concerns that led Anthropic to cut off worldwide access to two models on Friday. The Wall Street Journal reports that Jassy told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other government officials that Amazon researchers used Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 to obtain information that could be used in cyberattacks. The government subsequently imposed an export control ban on the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models. An Amazon spokesperson told the WSJ that while it’s “not uncommon for governments to seek our counsel on potential security risks,” the company does not disclose…

A coalition of state attorneys general has reportedly opened an investigation into OpenAI. The company was served with a subpoena from New York’s attorney general on Friday, according to The Wall Street Journal. That subpoena sought documents related to a broad range of topics including the company’s advertising, user engagement and retention, model sycophancy, handling of consumer data and health data, and treatment of minors and seniors. TechCrunch has reached out to OpenAI and the New York attorney general’s office for confirmation. A company spokesperson told the WSJ that OpenAI is cooperating with the investigation. “AI is a new and…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is famous for warning that his own products pose a threat.In an essay published this month, Amodei cautioned that AI’s power “has become undeniable.” As an example, he pointed to Anthropic’s latest model, Mythos, which he said presents “very real risks” to cybersecurity, the financial sector, critical infrastructure, and national security.He then called for a more robust government intervention to address the risks. On Friday, his warnings appeared to backfire when the US government suddenly intervened.Anthropic cut off access to its Mythos 5 and Fable 5 after it said the Trump administration ordered it to block…

A recent AI experiment involved feeding weeks of handwritten puppy potty logs into ChatGPT. My wife and I tracked every pee, poop, walk, and accident for our puppy Oliver, creating a new breed of KPI: Key Potty Indicators.ChatGPT extracted the data from our scribbled notes and turned it into a fully formatted CSV file. Then it went to town charting the heck out of these KPIs.It came up with a host of fancy metrics, including ARR (Accident Reduction Rate), LTV (Longest Time Void-free), PTP (Poop-to-Pee) ratio, WAF (Weekly Accident-Free) rate, and DPV (Daily Potty Volume).This chart was useful, showing how…