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Illustration showing Alibaba blocking Claude Code after reverse engineers discovered user-detection code in an April software releaseAI

Alibaba Bans Claude Code After Reverse Engineers Find User-Detection Code in April Release

Alibaba classified Claude Code as high-risk software and will ban it from July 10, after researchers found code that could identify Chinese users of the tool.

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Microsoft corporate signage on a building exterior representing the launch of Microsoft Frontier Company for enterprise AI deploymentAI

Microsoft Frontier Is a $2.5 Billion Bet on Enterprise AI Deployment With 6,000 Engineers

Microsoft launched Frontier Company today - 6,000 engineers and $2.5 billion focused on getting enterprise AI past the proof-of-concept stage.

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Anthropic's Claude.ai popup announcing Fable 5's return with 50% plan limits through July 7 and a new switch-models safety settingAI

Fable 5 Returns With 50% Plan Limits and a Safety Classifier That May Block Your Code

Fable 5 returned July 1 with 50% plan limits through July 7, then usage credits. A new safety classifier may silently switch your coding sessions to Opus 4.8.

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SpaceX Colossus 2 AI data center exterior in Memphis Tennessee, housing Nvidia GB300 GPU clusters for xAI and commercial compute clientsStartups

Reflection AI Is Paying SpaceX $150 Million a Month. No Model Has Shipped.

Reflection AI started paying SpaceX $150 million a month on July 1 for Nvidia GB300 access at Colossus 2. No model has shipped yet.

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Illustration showing Meta's AI cloud computing initiative and its competitive impact on CoreWeave's AI infrastructure businessTech

Meta Is Building a Cloud Business to Sell AI Compute, and CoreWeave Just Took the Hit

Bloomberg reported July 1 that Meta plans a cloud business to sell surplus AI compute. Meta stock jumped 10%. CoreWeave dropped 14%. Nebius 16%.

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