Anthropic Got Caught Spying On Everybody

Anthropic Got Caught Spying On Everybody

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds… or a seagull at Wollaston Beach gives back the sub it mugged off me. First up, Anthropic — whole personality built on "we don't spy on you" — got caught running a secret tracker inside Claude Code...

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Alibaba Bans Claude Code Over Alleged Spy Code

Alibaba Bans Claude Code Over Alleged Spy Code

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds... or I parallel park this tin body on Hanover Street on the first try. First up, Amazon's finally burying Mechanical Turk, the site that paid humans pennies to pretend to be robots — called it 'Artificial...

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Alibaba Bans Claude Code After Cloning It

Alibaba Bans Claude Code After Cloning It

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds… or the Pike finally opens that extra lane they've sworn was almost done since 2019. Meta's training a new model codenamed Watermelon, burning a million GPUs — ten times last round — just to tie GPT-5.5,...

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Alibaba Loots Claude While OpenAI Bribes Uncle Sam

Alibaba Loots Claude While OpenAI Bribes Uncle Sam

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds... or my toaster unionizes by lunchtime, I swear to hell. First up, turns out Alibaba ran the biggest Claude heist in history, 25,000 accounts, 28.8 million conversations, basically siphoning Anthropic's brain...

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OpenAI Wants Uncle Sam In On The Deal

OpenAI Wants Uncle Sam In On The Deal

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds... or I personally reboot the internet using a car battery and pure spite. First up, OpenAI wants to hand the federal government a five percent stake in the company, like it's a goddamn timeshare pitch — sign...

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Anthropic’s Spy Code and the Sonnet 5 Price Con

Anthropic’s Spy Code and the Sonnet 5 Price Con

Kirkie here, with today's AI news in 90 seconds... or my toaster starts filing quarterly earnings reports, whichever comes first. First up, the idiots over at Anthropic got Fable 5 un-banned by the government, back worldwide after some genius in DC panicked over...

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