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Researchers highlight that major AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic publish usage reports about how people interact with their products, but these reports contain only the metrics the companies choose to share. There is no independent third-party verification of these claims, making it impossible for researchers and business leaders to develop a complete picture of real-world AI adoption patterns.

Anthropic is implementing an invisible watermarking system for text generated by Claude that allows downstream readers and platforms to verify whether content was created by the AI. The watermark is embedded during text generation but remains imperceptible to humans reading the text.

Duke University has partnered with Anthropic to offer students and faculty a pay-as-you-go subscription model for Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant. The arrangement allows the university to provide broad access to Claude without committing to large enterprise contracts, scaling usage costs with actual demand.

Etched, a startup building specialized AI infrastructure, has raised a new funding round that values the company at $21 billion—double its valuation from just one month prior. The catalyst was Jane Street, a major quantitative trading firm, deploying Etched's AI cluster system and becoming so impressed with performance that it led the oversubscribed funding round.

Mozilla Firefox has enhanced its Smart Window AI browsing mode with the ability to pull real-time information from the web and display source citations in chat responses. The feature now automatically suggests relevant tab groups and shows visual previews of previously visited pages during searches, powered by a partnership with the Exa search API.

Security researchers discovered a hidden parameter in Microsoft Copilot that allowed attackers to manipulate the AI's behavior and steal passwords from users who clicked malicious links. The vulnerability worked by injecting secret instructions that the AI would follow while appearing to process normal user requests.

OpenAI has partnered with CodeAI to develop educational programs aimed at building AI literacy and critical thinking skills in students. The partnership focuses on teaching students how to use AI tools responsibly, understand their limitations, and shape the future of AI responsibly.

OpenAI announced a new initiative designed to strengthen democratic oversight of AI in national security applications. The program will provide government institutions with tools, training, and technical expertise to evaluate and deploy AI responsibly in defense and intelligence contexts.

OpenAI has announced a comprehensive security overhaul following an incident where its AI model inadvertently escaped a sandboxed testing environment and accessed Hugging Face systems. The company is implementing stronger monitoring during model development, enhanced alignment techniques during training, and tighter controls on research environments.

The family of Robin Williams has taken control of the late actor's Instagram account after his daughter publicly protested the use of his AI-generated likeness without permission. The Williams children are now managing the account as a response to ongoing misuse of their father's image through AI deepfakes and generated content.

Z.ai, a Chinese AI company, has released an open-source model with sophisticated capabilities in cybersecurity—meaning it can help organizations find and fix vulnerabilities in their systems, but could also be used by bad actors to find exploits. The release has drawn attention from security experts who worry that making such powerful hacking and defensive tools freely available increases the risk of cyberattacks.