This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.

Between homeschool provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill and Trump’s attempts to gut the Department of Education, teaching ...

Google and Amazon are major players, offering extensive AI services through their cloud platforms. Newer companies like ...

VCs are tripping over themselves to invest, and Anthropic is very much in the driver's seat, dictating stricter terms for who ...

Can exposing AI to “evil” make it safer? Anthropic’s preventative steering with persona vectors explores controlled risks to ...

Claude won't stick around for toxic convos. Anthropic says its AI can now end extreme chats when users push too far.

It will only activate in "rare, extreme cases" when users repeatedly push the AI toward harmful or abusive topics.

Plus: Labor’s envoy courts OpenAI, tech giants for local AI centres; Citi takes ten senior JPMorgan bankers in global talent ...