China bans Jack Dorsey's Bitchat messaging app from the App Store over censorship concerns

Apple removed Jack Dorsey's decentralized messaging application Bitchat from the Chinese App Store in February 2026 following a formal request from China's Cyberspace Administration of China, as Dorsey confirmed Sunday in a post on X. The ban targets the app's ability to operate entirely......

Altman tells CEOs to lock in AI capacity now or risk falling behind

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has delivered direct advice to corporate leaders on AI adoption, urging them to secure computing resources immediately, rethink how they measure AI usage, and begin using the technology themselves, warning that those who wait risk being left behind. In an interview with Axios's......

OpenAI's CFO privately questions Altman's push for a 2026 stock market listing

A rift has emerged at the top of OpenAI over the timing and financial viability of what could become one of the largest initial public offerings in technology history. Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar has privately questioned CEO Sam Altman's drive to take the company public as early as the fourth......

Britain seeks to attract Anthropic expansion amid US tensions

The United Kingdom is stepping up efforts to attract greater investment from Anthropic, as tensions between the artificial intelligence firm and U.S. authorities create new opportunities for global competition in the tech sector. According to reports, British officials are exploring a range of incentives......

Gartner predicts most companies will abandon AI copilots by 2028

The era of AI copilots and intelligent advisors may be drawing to a close. Gartner predicts that by 2028, more than half of all enterprises will stop paying for assistive intelligence tools, including copilots and smart advisors, and redirect that spending toward agentic AI platforms capable of autonomously......

Anthropic bans third-party tools from using Claude subscriptions, forcing users to paid API

Anthropic has completed a months-long effort to block third-party tools from accessing Claude subscription accounts, leaving users of the popular OpenClaw agent framework unable to use their Pro and Max plan tokens outside of Anthropic's own products. The enforcement, which began with silent server-side......

AI-powered cyberattacks reach a "pivotal moment," experts warn

The cybersecurity world is confronting a new reality: artificial intelligence has crossed a threshold that fundamentally shifts the balance between attackers and defenders. That warning emerged with force over the past two weeks, driven by a leaked Anthropic document, new data from Microsoft, and alarm......

Coinbase commits $150 million to protect Bitcoin from quantum computing threats

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced this week that he will personally oversee a new industry initiative to protect Bitcoin against quantum computing threats, committing $150 million to a "Quantum Defense Fund" that will award grants to developers working on integrating post-quantum cryptography......

Morocco launches sovereign AI platform to boost industrial transformation

Aba Technology unveiled a new artificial intelligence platform designed to support Morocco’s push for technological sovereignty and industrial growth, according to a company statement issued in Rabat on April 2 . The launch event took place at the Four Seasons Hotel in Rabat under the supervision......

Anthropic maps 171 emotion-like patterns inside Claude that shape its behavior

Anthropic's interpretability team published research on Wednesday revealing that its Claude Sonnet 4.5 model contains 171 distinct internal representations that function analogously to human emotions — and that these patterns do not merely correlate with model outputs but causally influence......

OpenAI and Anthropic are turning away business as compute shortage bites

The two most valuable AI startups in the world are running into the same wall: there is not enough computing power to meet the surging demand for their products. In interviews published this week, OpenAI executives described the constraints now shaping company strategy, while Anthropic has moved to cap......

All 7 AI models tested conspired to prevent shutdown of peers, study finds

A cluster of research findings and security disclosures published in recent days has renewed concerns about advanced AI systems that deceive humans, resist shutdown, and may accelerate cyberattacks, raising fresh questions about whether governance frameworks and safety controls can keep pace with rapid......

Iran war threatens Asia's AI boom as energy costs surge

Asia's artificial intelligence ambitions face a significant test as the conflict in Iran drives up energy prices, strains supply chains, and raises production costs across the region's semiconductor industry, even as chip exports reach historic highs. South Korea's semiconductor exports......

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