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Figma integrates OpenAI Codex via its MCP server just nine days after adding Claude Code, turning the design tool into a universal bridge between design and AI-powered coding.
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Figma integrates OpenAI Codex via its MCP server just nine days after adding Claude Code, turning the design tool into a universal bridge between design and AI-powered coding.

An OECD report reveals AI firms captured 61% of global venture capital in 2025 at $258.7 billion, doubling their share since 2022, while mega-deals above $1 billion account for half of all investment value.

OpenAI secured a Pentagon classified network deal with prohibitions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons - the exact same terms that got Anthropic banned from all federal agencies hours earlier.

President Trump directed all U.S. government agencies to immediately cease using Anthropic's technology after the company refused to drop AI safety guardrails for the Pentagon. Defense Secretary Hegseth designated Anthropic a supply chain risk to national security.

GitHub makes Claude by Anthropic and OpenAI Codex available to all Copilot Business and Pro subscribers at no additional cost, turning Copilot into a true multi-model platform.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a public statement rejecting the Pentagon's final terms, saying the proposed compromise language 'would allow those safeguards to be disregarded at will.' The Friday 5:01 PM deadline still stands.

Kali Linux's new Claude AI integration funnels scan results, target IPs, and discovered vulnerabilities through Anthropic's cloud API, and the guide's only privacy note is a parenthetical shrug.

The Pentagon sent Anthropic its final terms for unrestricted military AI use Wednesday night, with a 5:01 PM Friday deadline that could end in contract cancellation, supply chain blacklisting, or Defense Production Act invocation.

An unknown attacker used over 1,000 prompts to jailbreak Anthropic's Claude, generating exploit code that breached six Mexican government agencies and exfiltrated 195 million taxpayer records.

Anthropic launched 13 new MCP connectors, department-specific plugins, and a private enterprise marketplace for Claude Cowork, deepening the SaaS disruption that has already wiped $285 billion off software stocks since January.

Anthropic has launched 'Claude's Corner,' a Substack newsletter written by the retired Claude Opus 3 model, as part of a broader experiment in model preservation and AI welfare.

As safety researchers flee frontier AI labs citing existential dread, a darker pattern emerges: the people building the most powerful technology in history are burning out, breaking down, and self-medicating to keep up.