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ANTHROPIC VS. WHITE HOUSE PUTS $60 BILLION AT RISK

The $60 billion investment into Anthropic from over 200 venture capital investors is now at risk due to a contract dispute with the Pentagon. Anthropic being designated a supply chain risk is unprecedented. It will prevent other military contractors from deploying Claude in their applications. It could also require companies like Nvidia, which do business with the US military, to sever their commercial activities with Anthropic. The situation is becoming an existential moment for all of American AI and its investors.

CHINESE AI FIRM MINIMAX MORE THAN DOUBLES REVENUE IN FIRST POST-IPO RESULTS

Chinese AI startup MiniMax's annual revenue soared to $79 million in 2025 from $30.5 million the previous year. Net loss widened to $1.87 billion from $465.2 million. Analysts were expecting the equivalent of about $72 million in revenue and a net loss of roughly $564 million. These are the first results published since the company went public in January. Its shares have increased more than fourfold from their IPO price, pushing the company's market capitalization past $30 billion.

ALIBABA'S SMALL, OPEN SOURCE QWEN3.5-9B BEATS OPENAI'S GPT-OSS-120B AND CAN RUN ON STANDARD LAPTOPS

Alibaba recently unveiled its Qwen3.5 Small Model Series. Qwen3.5-0.8B and 2B are intended for prototyping and deployment on edge devices where battery life is paramount. Qwen3.5-4B is a strong multimodal base for lightweight agents with a 262,144 token context window. Qwen3.5-9B is a compact reasoning model that outperforms OpenAI's open source gpt-oss-120B on key third-party benchmarks. The weights for the models are available now under Apache 2.0 licenses on Hugging Face and ModelScope.

ANTHROPIC CEO RESPONDS TO TRUMP ORDER, PENTAGON CLASH (27 MINUTE VIDEO)

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei sat down with CBS News for an exclusive interview hours after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared the company a supply chain risk to national security, which restricts military contractors from doing business with the AI giant. Amodei called the move "retaliatory and punitive," and he said Anthropic sought to draw "red lines" in the government's use of its technology because "we believe that crossing those lines is contrary to American values, and we wanted to stand up for American values."

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