Anthropic

Claude helped prioritise targets during strikes on Iran. Its maker refused Pentagon demands for unrestricted military access to its models.

The US consumer regulator opened a probe into Anthropic, OpenAI and research group METR the next day, with plans to compel executive testimony.

Anthropic and OpenAI briefed the UN Security Council on existential AI risk while their financial disclosures show a combined $1.37 trillion in planned compute spending.

The seven executives hold roughly a two per cent economic stake each and advance the governance change alongside an $11.6 billion infrastructure agreement with Akamai.

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei told the UN that AI threatens humanity while plugging models into DNA databases and bank accounts. The doomsday sermon is a regulatory grift that protects incumbents.

Alibaba extracted 151 million exchanges to train its Qwen models, while other operations exposed live Russian defence credentials and surveillance footage linked to the People's Liberation Army.

Sony Music Publishing (US) LLC and Warner Chappell Music filed a complaint in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on 28 August 2026, naming Anthropic PBC, chief executive Dario Amodei, and co-founder Benjamin Mann as defendants. Case No.

More than 100 organisations, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, signed a joint open letter on 27 August titled "A call for collective action on cyber defense". The signatories are direct about the timeline: "We have a limited window to strengthen cyber defences.