Sources: OpenAI asked members of Congress for guidance on whether orchestrating an industry-wide slowdown in AI development would be legal under antitrust law (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Anthropic intercepted multiple attempts to misuse Claude for cyberattacks, influence campaigns, surveillance, biological-weapon research, scams, and illicit distillation. Chinese firms Moonshot and DeepSeek used thousands of fake accounts and millions of real queries to clone Claude. OpenAI sought congressional guidance on a potential industry slowdown and launched a ChatGPT variant for financial-services research while pausing new $200-per-month Pro subscriptions. DeepSeek unveiled DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, a 552-billion-parameter encoder-decoder model with a 1-million-token context window.