Nearly four years of war have left Ukraine with an unlikely asset: millions of hours of drone footage and combat data. Now Kyiv plans to share them with allies as leverage. In the age of military AI, raw battlefield intelligence may prove more valuable than any weapons shipment.
Building a web browser from scratch is considered one of the most complex software projects imaginable. All the more remarkable: Cursor set hundreds of autonomously working AI agents to exactly this task and after nearly a week produced a working browser with its own rendering engine.
The AI startup from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati had a rough week. After firing a co-founder, several researchers left for their former employer. A planned funding round at a $50 billion valuation could be in jeopardy.
A sweeping US–Taiwan trade deal ties lower tariffs to massive onshore investment: Taiwanese chipmakers are pledging at least $250 billion for American fabs, while Washington wields quotas—and the threat of 100 percent tariffs—to pull more of the world’s most advanced semiconductor production onto US soil.
Cloudflare is acquiring British startup Human Native to create a new payment system for AI training data. The company runs a marketplace for AI training data and converts multimedia content into structured, licensable datasets.
The move addresses a growing problem: AI crawlers scrape the web on a massive scale without paying website operators. Instead of letting AI companies grab content for free, publishers could make their data available through an index and get paid for it.
Cloudflare has already been developing tools like "AI Crawl Control" and "Pay Per Crawl" that let website operators control who can use their content for AI training. The company also co-founded the x402 Foundation with Coinbase to enable automatic machine-to-machine payments. Cloudflare runs its own AI platform and recently expanded it by acquiring Replicate.
Andrea Vallone, a senior safety researcher at OpenAI, has moved to Anthropic. She'll be working on the alignment team, which focuses on AI model risks. Vallone spent three years at OpenAI, where she founded the "Model Policy" research team and contributed to major projects including GPT-4, GPT-5, and the company's reasoning models.
Over the past year, Vallone led OpenAI's research on an increasingly urgent question: how should AI models respond when users show signs of emotional dependency or mental health struggles? Some users, including teenagers, have taken their own lives after conversations with chatbots. Several families have filed lawsuits, and the U.S. Senate has held hearings on the issue.
At Anthropic, Vallone will report to Jan Leike. Leike himself was head of safety research at OpenAI before leaving the company in May 2024. At the time, Leike publicly criticized OpenAI, saying safety had taken a backseat to shipping new products.
