Anthropic revealed that Chinese AI labs DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated 16+ million Claude exchanges to extract its capabilities and improve their own competing models.
Anthropic analyzed millions of real Claude interactions and found the 99.9th percentile session duration nearly doubled to 45+ minutes in 3 months, with software engineering accounting for nearly half of all agentic use.
Anthropic published a new theory explaining why AI assistants like Claude express emotions and use anthropomorphic language—proposing that models select from personas inherited from fictional characters during training.
OpenAI introduced EVMbench, a new benchmark measuring how well AI agents can detect, exploit, and patch high-severity smart contract vulnerabilities in EVM-based blockchains.
Anthropic revealed that Chinese AI labs DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated 16+ million Claude exchanges to extract its capabilities and improve their own competing models.
A highly upvoted r/MachineLearning thread debates whether skyrocketing acceptance rates at top venues like CVPR and ICLR are diluting the academic value of conference publication, raising concerns about review quality.
Researchers have built a thermodynamic computer that generates images from noise using orders of magnitude less energy than current generative AI models, offering a radically different approach to AI hardware.
Elon Musk's xAI has secured a Pentagon agreement to deploy Grok in classified military systems, displacing Anthropic's previous exclusivity. Anthropic now faces an ultimatum to remove safety restrictions or risk being labeled a supply chain risk.
Meta and NVIDIA announced a multiyear strategic AI infrastructure partnership on February 17. Meta will deploy millions of Blackwell and Rubin GPUs, plus Grace CPUs in a first-of-its-kind standalone server deployment. Analysts peg the deal at ~$50B.
World Labs, the startup from AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has raised $1 billion to scale its spatial intelligence technology. Autodesk leads with $200M, alongside Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, and AMD.
OpenAI is finalizing a $100B+ funding round backed by Amazon, SoftBank, Nvidia, and Microsoft. The deal would value the AI company at over $850 billion—a record for any private tech company.
Meta and AMD announced a multi-year partnership to deploy up to 6GW of AMD Instinct GPUs, valued at over $60 billion, in Meta's boldest move yet to diversify AI compute beyond Nvidia.