News — 2026-04-21

President Donald Trump told CNBC that a deal allowing Anthropic’s AI models to be used by the Department of Defense is "possible," reversing a February order that barred federal agencies from the firm’s technology. The comment followed a White House meeting on April 18 in which Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei discussed the company’s new Mythos model with Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Anthropic remains under a supply‑chain‑risk designation that bars it from Pentagon contracts while two federal courts issue conflicting rulings on the ban. Read more

Amazon has deepened its partnership with Anthropic, pouring an extra $5 billion into the AI startup. The cash boost brings Amazon's total immediate stake to $13 billion and opens the door for Anthropic to secure up to 5 gigawatts of Amazon‑built AI chips by 2026. The infusion arrives as Anthropic grapples with soaring demand for its Claude models, which has strained its cloud infrastructure and caused occasional outages. The deal also includes a potential $20 billion follow‑on investment if the collaboration meets certain commercial milestones. Read more

Educators and tech observers say AI‑generated text is flooding the internet, and the tools meant to flag it are falling short. Professors report a surge in perfectly grammatical but soulless writing that mimics human style only on the surface. The rise of ChatGPT, Claude and similar models has left schools scrambling for reliable ways to identify machine‑written work, as existing detectors struggle to keep pace with ever‑more sophisticated outputs. Read more

Google has assembled an internal “strike team” to accelerate the development of its Gemini AI agents after co‑founder Sergey Brin warned that the company is falling behind Anthropic’s Claude Code. The effort, overseen by Brin and DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu, aims to boost Gemini’s ability to write and execute code, a capability Brin says is essential for the final sprint toward AI takeoff. While the team’s work may initially remain internal, Google hopes the improvements will eventually translate into more powerful models for both its engineers and, potentially, the broader market. Read more

Amazon announced a fresh commitment of $5 billion to AI start‑up Anthropic, with the option to add another $20 billion if the firm hits predefined milestones. The deal builds on two prior $4 billion rounds and ties Anthropic to Amazon’s custom Trainium chips and a decade‑long $100 billion spend on AWS services. In return, Anthropic will make its Claude platform available directly through the AWS console, eliminating separate login steps for customers. Read more

Amazon has poured an additional $5 billion into AI startup Anthropic, raising its total stake to $13 billion. In return, Anthropic pledged to spend more than $100 billion on Amazon Web Services over the next decade, gaining access to up to 5 GW of new computing capacity and a suite of Amazon’s custom AI chips. The deal mirrors a similar arrangement Amazon struck with OpenAI two months earlier and underscores the tech giant’s push to lock in next‑generation generative‑AI workloads on its cloud platform. Read more

OpenAI has rolled out Chronicle, a research‑preview feature for its Codex desktop app on Apple Silicon Macs. The tool periodically snaps screenshots, sends them to OpenAI’s servers for OCR and visual analysis, and saves text summaries as unencrypted Markdown files on the user’s machine. Available only to ChatGPT Pro subscribers paying $100 or more per month, Chronicle is barred from the EU, UK and Switzerland. While the feature promises seamless context for the AI assistant, it also raises fresh concerns about data privacy and regulatory compliance. Read more