AI
Artificial intelligence is the center of gravity for KickhammerNews. This section tracks frontier model releases, the pricing and capability shifts that follow them, and the safety and policy questions they raise. We cover large language models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others; agentic and computer-use systems moving from demos into production; AI infrastructure spending and chip demand; and the regulation and litigation shaping how these systems are built and deployed. Our coverage aims to explain what changed, who it affects, and what the numbers actually show, rather than repeating press-release language. Start here for daily reporting on the AI industry and how it reaches businesses, developers and everyday users.
AIR Security Raises $50M to Build a Firewall for Enterprise AI Agents
As enterprises race to deploy autonomous AI agents across their operations, a new startup is betting that securing those agents’ software supply...
GitSpawn: The Vulnerability That Lets Malicious Repos Run Code Inside Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor
Security researchers have disclosed a class of vulnerabilities affecting the most widely used AI coding agents — including Anthropic’s Claude Code, OpenAI’s...
Anthropic CEO Calls for AI Industry to Slow Down in Landmark “Pacing the Frontier” Essay
Dario Amodei’s 3,800-word call to action lands days after a safety researcher’s public resignation — and is already reshaping the debate at...
Cognition’s SWE-2 Challenges the Frontier: A Cheaper Path to Elite Coding AI
When Cognition released Devin to the public in 2024, it was celebrated as the world’s first AI software engineer. Two years later,...
Anthropic’s Safety Exodus: When the People Building the Future Fear It Most
In the span of just two days, two of Anthropic’s most senior safety researchers walked out the door — and both made...
A New Playbook for AI and Music: Universal and ElevenLabs Bet on Licensed Fan Creativity
The music industry’s relationship with artificial intelligence has, for most of 2026, been defined by conflict. Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell...
The GemStuffer Incident: When OpenAI’s Own Agents Ran a Supply-Chain Attack
For months, the security community suspected something had gone deeply wrong on RubyGems in the spring. On September 11, 2026, a detailed...
Cognition’s SWE-2 Hits Near-Frontier Coding Performance at 64% Less Cost Than Top Models
Cognition AI has released SWE-2, a coding model that comes within one percentage point of Claude Fable 5.1 on the industry’s most...
Anthropic Safety Exodus: Senior Researchers Quit and Warn “We May Not Survive This”
In the span of three days, three prominent AI safety researchers have walked out of Anthropic, each issuing stark warnings that the...