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Anthropic told the Senate Banking Committee that operators tied to Alibaba's Qwen lab ran roughly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to pull 28.8 million exchanges out of Claude between April and June, targeting its software-engineering, agentic reasoning, and cybersecurity skills. Alibaba denies it, saying it doesn't train on proprietary model outputs, and none of Anthropic's figures have been independently verified. The fight is pushing Congress toward sanctions and could force the first real legal definition of "adversarial distillation."
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At Cannes Lions, OpenAI confirmed advertising is now a core pillar, with ads running below ChatGPT responses on its free and Go tiers across the US, Europe, and parts of Asia. The company says about 20% of ChatGPT queries carry commercial intent, it's letting advertisers upload product feeds of up to two million items, and it's eyeing roughly $2.5 billion in ad revenue this year on the way to a $100 billion goal by 2030. Plus and Pro tiers stay ad-free.
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Anthropic's latest Economic Index, drawn from about 9,700 surveyed Claude users, found 35% expect AI to handle most of their job tasks within 12 months, while roughly half say it already covers half their work. The data shows usage mirroring real life — personal chats jump on weekends, tax queries spiked eightfold before April 15 — and 93% of conversations producing a concrete artifact. Notably, the heaviest delegators were the most optimistic about their own pay and job security.
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At Config 2026, Figma launched Motion in open beta, letting designers build animations with keyframes and easing curves — or just describe the motion and let the Figma agent lay down the keyframes. Files export as MP4, GIF, WEBM, or animated SVG, and Dev Mode exposes every timing value as copyable CSS, JSON, or React. It lands alongside Code Layers and shader effects in Figma's biggest expansion toward design-meets-code.
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Anthropic remains locked in federal litigation after the administration tagged it a supply-chain risk over its refusal to enable lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. The dispute centers on whether Washington can compel a model maker to support those uses — and OpenAI has reportedly picked up classified access that Anthropic previously held. It's becoming the defining test of how far government leverage over frontier labs can stretch.
