Oil is behaving like oil in a war should behave. With the Strait of Hormuz effectively shut and around a fifth of global oil flows caught in the line of fire, crude has surged to levels not seen in roughly two years. Reuters reported that U.S. crude jumped more than $10 in a single day,…
The week ending February 28, 2026 will likely be studied in business schools for a generation. Within a single Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump banned a major American AI company from all federal contracts, the Pentagon designated that same company a national security risk on par with foreign adversaries, and its biggest competitor swept in…
Anthropic has taken the unusual step of withholding its most capable AI model from the public, not because it underperforms, but because it works too well. Claude Mythos Preview, announced Tuesday as part of a new industry initiative called Project Glasswing, has demonstrated cybersecurity capabilities so advanced that the company has concluded a general release…
Eight weeks after Dario Amodei walked out of the Pentagon, the AI trade looks different. OpenAI is missing revenue targets, Anthropic is at a US$30 billion run-rate and racing toward an October listing, and the case for two trillion-dollar AI companies is suddenly contested. Is the AI bubble starting to pop? When the Wall Street…
Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable commercial AI model yet — and spent much of the launch reminding everyone it has a better one locked in the vault. Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, the latest iteration of its flagship commercial AI model, extending its lead over OpenAI and Google in…
Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 are, by Anthropic’s own description, the same underlying model. One is available to anybody with a Claude subscription or API key. The other is restricted to a vetted group of cybersecurity firms, critical infrastructure providers, and selected biology researchers. For the first time, a frontier AI lab has…