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Anthropic spent Monday positioning itself as a victim. By nightfall, Elon Musk had flipped the script entirely. The Amazon-backed artificial intelligence company behind Claude publicly accused three Chinese labs of orchestrating a massive, coordinated operation to steal its model’s capabilities. …

(Photo by Hakan Nural/Anadolu via Getty Images)Anadolu via Getty ImagesAmazon-owned cloud service AWS on Tuesday debuted Elemental Inference, a set of AI-based tools to automate identifying, clipping and generating within seconds social-media friendly vertical highlight clips from live sports streamed in traditional horizontal aspect ratios. The new tools integrate with AWS’ existing package of online-video…

Image captured from video posted on Telegram by the Russian Ministry of Defense. The video shows a Russian D-30 howitzers shooting at Ukrainian positions in the Dnepropetrovsk direction. The video was posted on February 19, 2026.Social Media CaptureRussian military doctrine has historically centered on artillery, often called the “King of Battle” for the destructive power…

As AI-powered search tools reshape how businesses are discovered online, India-founded startup Gushwork is helping companies capture customers from platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity — with early traction that is beginning to draw investor support. The two-year-old startup said Thursday it had raised $9 million in a seed round led by Susquehanna International…

Anthropic on Wednesday announced that it has acquired Vercept, an AI startup with deep roots to some of the biggest names in Seattle’s tech scene. The acquisition marks the latest after Anthropic acquired coding agent engine Bun in December to help scale Claude Code. Vercept had created tools for more complex agentic tasks, including its…

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