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Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software, banning employees from using the AI coding tool developed by Anthropic. The move signals growing tension between Chinese tech giants and Western AI platforms, raising real questions about where the boundaries of corporate AI governance are being drawn.
Turning to the AI safety debate itself, Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski is pushing back hard against what he calls the use of safety as a pretext for consolidating power. Using Anthropic's recent Fable five controversy as his centerpiece, Konwinski argues that a handful of private labs are quietly deciding who gets to participate in frontier AI research at all.
And in space, NASA's Swift observatory got a lifeline this week. The agency has made contact with LINK, a robotic spacecraft launched specifically to boost the aging Swift telescope back into a stable orbit. It's a reminder that some of our most valuable scientific instruments are quietly fighting gravity every single day.
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