Trump Admin releases Anthropic Mythos to be used by more than 100 US companies, agencies

Trump Admin releases Anthropic Mythos to be used by more than 100 US companies, agencies

Two weeks into the ban that caused Anthropic to pull its powerful cybersecurity-oriented models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, from the market, the Trump administration is softening its stance. It is now allowing Anthropic to make Mythos 5 available to more than 100 specific U.S. government agencies and companies, including allowing the non-American employees at…

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Tesco moving 40,000 server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom’s “abusive conduct”

Tesco moving 40,000 server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom’s “abusive conduct”

Tesco is also dealing with migration challenges related to data security because its new, unnamed virtualization software is incompatible with the Veeam and Zerto products it uses. “Manifestly unfair and excessive” price hike Tesco initially requested at least 100 million pounds (about $133.6 million) in damages each from Broadcom, VMware, and reseller Computacenter, plus interest….

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Introducing computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

Introducing computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

Making computer use safe in 3.5 Flash To mitigate some of the prompt injection risks for agents operating in live environments, we use targeted adversarial training for computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash. We’re also releasing two optional enterprise safeguard systems that enable enterprises to: Require explicit user confirmation for sensitive or irreversible actions. Automatically…

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Year of free HPE software a “step in the correct direction” in VMware rivalry

Year of free HPE software a “step in the correct direction” in VMware rivalry

HPE’s new promotion aims to entice customers to more deeply consider migrating off VMware. While numerous third-party surveys have pointed to a significant amount of VMware customers looking to reduce or eliminate their VMware use over the next few years, concerns around time and cost are also expected to slow or deter migration plans, especially…

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Comcast to Split Into Two via Spin-Off of NBCUniversal, Including Sky

Comcast to Split Into Two via Spin-Off of NBCUniversal, Including Sky

In a major move, Comcast plans to separate into two independent publicly traded companies through a tax-free spin-off of NBCUniversal and Sky, the company said on Monday. “Upon completion of the transaction, Comcast shareholders will own shares in both Comcast and NBCUniversal, creating two focused industry leaders, each with significant scale, strong financial profiles and…

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