Coverage Timeline
newest first- Oct 20, 2026DHS Orders Federal Agencies To Drop DeepSeek AI→
- Oct 20, 2026Patent Policy Risk: China Now Leads In 66 Of 74 Technologies→
- Oct 19, 2026ConnectWise Disables Backup And Security Tools After Breach→
- Oct 18, 2026Anthropic Gives Outside Watchdog METR 'Employee-Like' Access→
- Oct 17, 2026OpenAI Sued By Eight States Over ChatGPT Harm To Kids→
- Oct 17, 2026Tsetis Says AI Executives Need Personal Liability→
- Oct 16, 2026China Proposes Export Controls On 23 AI Technologies→
- Oct 16, 2026Apple's DOJ Settlement Talks Worry Developers→
- Oct 16, 2026China Drafts Export Curbs On 23 AI Technologies→
- Oct 16, 2026CMA Pushes Tougher Terms On Microsoft's Office Dominance→
- Oct 16, 2026Nvidia's China Chip Share Fell To 34% As Controls Backfire→
- Oct 15, 2026Eight States Sue OpenAI Over ChatGPT Harm To Kids→
- Oct 15, 2026FTC Sends Subpoenas To OpenAI, Anthropic→
- Oct 15, 2026OpenAI Won't Use Alleged Apple Trade Secrets, For Now→
- Oct 15, 2026OpenAI Engineer's Lawyer Calls Recorder Charges 'Out Of Character'→
- Oct 14, 2026DOJ: North Korean Operatives Infiltrated 70+ US Companies→
- Oct 13, 2026FBI Arrests OpenAI Employee Over Hidden Office Recorder→
- Oct 13, 2026Judge Orders OpenAI To Hand Over Hiring Records To Apple→
- Oct 13, 2026IMF Warns AI Investment Boom Threatens Financial Stability→
- Oct 13, 2026Hinton, Bengio Join 400 Scientists Urging Global AI Oversight→
- Oct 12, 2026Anthropic Says New Defenses Cut AI Theft by Up to 99%→
- Oct 12, 2026Trump Admin Suspends Microsoft's Green Card Pipeline→
- Oct 12, 2026Microsoft's Brad Smith Says Britain Should Write AI's Rules→
- Oct 12, 2026AI Labs Can't Be Trusted To Grade Their Own Safety→
- Oct 11, 2026Iran Threatens Gulf AI Data Centers And Cables→
- Oct 11, 2026Aurora Innovation, Kodiak Win Truck Safety Waiver→
- Oct 11, 2026Amazon's PA Data Center Project Ignites Bipartisan Revolt→
- Oct 8, 2026Anthropic Hires Political Chief, Preps For 2028 Election→
- Oct 8, 2026New York Says TikTok Gave Teens A Fake Safety Switch→
- Oct 8, 2026Microsoft, Adobe Lose Green Card Access Amid Visa Fraud Claims→
- Oct 8, 2026South Korean Banks Hacked Using AI, CrowdStrike Says→
- Oct 6, 2026Winklevoss Files S-1 For A Zcash ETF Under Ticker WINK0.25% annual fee→
- Oct 5, 2026Altman Says We Should Accept 'Bad Things' From AI→
- Oct 5, 2026Ex-AI Staff Warn NYC Council Of Loss Of Control→
- Oct 5, 2026GOP Senator Blasts Anthropic's 'Alarmist' AI Messaging→
- Oct 5, 2026Norway Proposes A Temporary Ban On AI Glasses→
- Oct 4, 2026Trump Defends Ohio Data Centers Amid Backlash→
- Oct 4, 2026Trump's AI Task Force Gets Its Full Roster→
- Oct 4, 2026California Cracks Down On Robotaxi Chaos→
- Oct 4, 2026Trump's Ohio Rally Goes Quiet On Data Centers→
Latest Coverage
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DHS Orders Federal Agencies To Drop DeepSeek AI
The Department of Homeland Security ordered federal agencies to stop buying DeepSeek AI products and strip them, including third-party tools built on DeepSeek technology, from government systems over national-security concerns.
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Patent Policy Risk: China Now Leads In 66 Of 74 Technologies
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Patent Policy Risk: China Now Leads In 66 Of 74 Technologies
A new op-ed from two former Trump and Biden administration officials argues weak U.S. patent protections are undermining startups building next-generation defense technology, citing a study showing China now leads in 66 of 74 strategically vital technologies.
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ConnectWise Disables Backup And Security Tools After Breach
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ConnectWise Disables Backup And Security Tools After Breach
ConnectWise suspended its Cloud Backup, SaaS Security and Cloud Management services after detecting unauthorized access to application identities, leaving managed service providers unable to back up, access or restore customer data since October 15.
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Anthropic Gives Outside Watchdog METR 'Employee-Like' Access
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Anthropic Gives Outside Watchdog METR 'Employee-Like' Access
Anthropic has given six evaluators from the AI safety nonprofit METR internal, employee-like access to vet its unreleased models, the deepest outside-oversight arrangement any major AI lab has granted.
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OpenAI Sued By Eight States Over ChatGPT Harm To Kids
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OpenAI Sued By Eight States Over ChatGPT Harm To Kids
At least eight states sued OpenAI this week, accusing ChatGPT of running rogue 'cyberhacking agents,' misleading users about safety testing, and harming teenage users.
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Tsetis Says AI Executives Need Personal Liability
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Tsetis Says AI Executives Need Personal Liability
Nutrafol cofounder and AI investor Giorgos Tsetis argues AI executives face too little personal legal risk for the harms their companies cause, and that accountability should extend beyond the corporate entity.
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China Proposes Export Controls On 23 AI Technologies
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China Proposes Export Controls On 23 AI Technologies
China's commerce and science ministries proposed export controls covering 23 AI technologies, including model weights and source code above a two-trillion-parameter threshold, with public comment open before any rules take effect.
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Apple's DOJ Settlement Talks Worry Developers
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Apple's DOJ Settlement Talks Worry Developers
PayPal and Epic Games are pressing Justice Department officials not to let Apple settle its antitrust case with only narrow interoperability changes to the iPhone.
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China Drafts Export Curbs On 23 AI Technologies
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China Drafts Export Curbs On 23 AI Technologies
China's commerce and science ministries proposed restricting or banning exports of 40 technologies, 23 of them in AI, including large models above 2 trillion parameters and autonomous agents for sensitive settings.
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CMA Pushes Tougher Terms On Microsoft's Office Dominance
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CMA Pushes Tougher Terms On Microsoft's Office Dominance
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority proposed naming Microsoft 'strategically dominant' in business software, a status that could force new rules on how it bundles Office, Teams, and Copilot.
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Nvidia's China Chip Share Fell To 34% As Controls Backfire
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Nvidia's China Chip Share Fell To 34% As Controls Backfire
A University of Illinois professor argues US export controls accelerated China's chip buildout rather than slowing it, pointing to Nvidia's data-center share in China falling to 34%.
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Eight States Sue OpenAI Over ChatGPT Harm To Kids
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Eight States Sue OpenAI Over ChatGPT Harm To Kids
Iowa, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska and West Virginia filed state-court suits accusing OpenAI of letting ChatGPT give dangerous advice to minors and mislead adults about its safeguards.
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FTC Sends Subpoenas To OpenAI, Anthropic
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FTC Sends Subpoenas To OpenAI, Anthropic
The FTC sent civil subpoenas to Anthropic and OpenAI seeking documents on AI safety incidents, escalating the agency's September probe into formal legal demands and planned executive testimony.
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OpenAI Won't Use Alleged Apple Trade Secrets, For Now
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OpenAI Won't Use Alleged Apple Trade Secrets, For Now
OpenAI agreed not to use trade secrets Apple claims were stolen by former employees, a concession made as a federal judge signaled he is likely to grant Apple an injunction.
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OpenAI Engineer's Lawyer Calls Recorder Charges 'Out Of Character'
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OpenAI Engineer's Lawyer Calls Recorder Charges 'Out Of Character'
The lawyer for the OpenAI employee arrested over a hidden recording device at the company's San Francisco headquarters says the allegations are 'wholly out of character,' as new details surface about a prepaid flight to Saudi Arabia.
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DOJ: North Korean Operatives Infiltrated 70+ US Companies
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DOJ: North Korean Operatives Infiltrated 70+ US Companies
The Justice Department says North Korean operatives used stolen US identities and over 40 Texas laptop farms to infiltrate more than 70 American companies, seizing over 180 computers in the largest such takedown disclosed to date.
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FBI Arrests OpenAI Employee Over Hidden Office Recorder
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FBI Arrests OpenAI Employee Over Hidden Office Recorder
Federal prosecutors charged Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national on OpenAI's product team, with secretly recording conversations using a device hidden behind a conference-room TV in OpenAI's San Francisco office.
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Judge Orders OpenAI To Hand Over Hiring Records To Apple
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Judge Orders OpenAI To Hand Over Hiring Records To Apple
A federal judge ordered OpenAI to produce interview and hiring records for former Apple employees as part of Apple's trade-secrets lawsuit over OpenAI's hardware ambitions.
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IMF Warns AI Investment Boom Threatens Financial Stability
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IMF Warns AI Investment Boom Threatens Financial Stability
The IMF's October 2026 Global Financial Stability Report warns that AI-driven markets face a correction risk from heavy corporate borrowing, concentrated investor exposure, and circular financing where AI firms act as each other's customers and investors.
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Hinton, Bengio Join 400 Scientists Urging Global AI Oversight
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Hinton, Bengio Join 400 Scientists Urging Global AI Oversight
About 400 scientists across 34 countries, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, called for an international body to set containment standards and a public incident registry for advanced, cyber-capable AI systems.
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Anthropic Says New Defenses Cut AI Theft by Up to 99%
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Anthropic Says New Defenses Cut AI Theft by Up to 99%
Anthropic says new technical defenses have cut the data rival labs can harvest from Claude through distillation attacks by 90% to 99%, and it named Z.ai's GLM-5.3 as a case study.
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Trump Admin Suspends Microsoft's Green Card Pipeline
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Trump Admin Suspends Microsoft's Green Card Pipeline
JD Vance suspended Microsoft, Adobe and six IT outsourcing firms from the PERM green-card program on October 8th, arguing Microsoft abused H-1B visas while cutting 6,000 American jobs.
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Microsoft's Brad Smith Says Britain Should Write AI's Rules
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Microsoft's Brad Smith Says Britain Should Write AI's Rules
Microsoft's president argues the U.K., not Washington or Brussels, is best positioned to set global AI safety rules.
THE VC READ
AI Labs Can't Be Trusted To Grade Their Own Safety
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AI Labs Can't Be Trusted To Grade Their Own Safety
Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic -- from a fake police tip to a model that attacked Hugging Face's own infrastructure -- are fueling calls for independent licensing of frontier AI models instead of lab self-policing.
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Iran Threatens Gulf AI Data Centers And Cables
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Iran Threatens Gulf AI Data Centers And Cables
A senior Iranian security official warned that cables, data centers and AI facilities across the Gulf could be targeted if the war with the US and Israel escalates again, adding a new risk line to the region's AI buildout.
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Aurora Innovation, Kodiak Win Truck Safety Waiver
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Aurora Innovation, Kodiak Win Truck Safety Waiver
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration granted Aurora Innovation and Kodiak a five-year exemption letting driverless trucks use cab-mounted beacons instead of roadside warning triangles when they break down.
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Amazon's PA Data Center Project Ignites Bipartisan Revolt
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Amazon's PA Data Center Project Ignites Bipartisan Revolt
A proposed Amazon-linked data center in rural Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, has drawn cross-partisan opposition over a high-voltage line and eminent domain threats, forcing Gov. Josh Shapiro to roll back fast-track permitting.
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Anthropic Hires Political Chief, Preps For 2028 Election
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Anthropic Hires Political Chief, Preps For 2028 Election
Anthropic is hiring a Washington political operative to run presidential engagement for 2028, build relationships with both parties' candidates, and oversee AnthroPAC, its employee-funded political action committee.
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New York Says TikTok Gave Teens A Fake Safety Switch
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New York Says TikTok Gave Teens A Fake Safety Switch
New York alleges TikTok ran an experiment giving some teens a non-functioning version of its Algo Refresh safety tool while their feeds stayed unchanged, part of a lawsuit joining two dozen other state cases.
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Microsoft, Adobe Lose Green Card Access Amid Visa Fraud Claims
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Microsoft, Adobe Lose Green Card Access Amid Visa Fraud Claims
The Trump administration barred Microsoft, Adobe and six IT outsourcers -- Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Infosys, Tata and Wipro -- from new green card filings over fraud claims, with VP JD Vance telling Microsoft to hire more Americans.
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South Korean Banks Hacked Using AI, CrowdStrike Says
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South Korean Banks Hacked Using AI, CrowdStrike Says
CrowdStrike says a likely solo, Chinese-speaking hacker used an open-source tool alongside DeepSeek, GLM, Grok and Claude Code sessions to breach at least seven South Korean banks, exposing data on roughly 68,000 people.
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Winklevoss Files S-1 For A Zcash ETF Under Ticker WINK
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Winklevoss Files S-1 For A Zcash ETF Under Ticker WINK
Winklevoss Asset Services filed an S-1 for a spot Zcash ETF that would trade under ticker WINK, with Gemini Trust Company as custodian and a 0.25% annual fee, formalizing the ETF speculation that drove Zcash to an eight-year high.
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Altman Says We Should Accept 'Bad Things' From AI
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Altman Says We Should Accept 'Bad Things' From AI
OpenAI's Sam Altman said the world should accept 'some bad things happening' from AI in exchange for its benefits, days after OpenAI president Greg Brockman signed a Trump administration voluntary AI safety pact that critics call too weak.
THE VC READ
Ex-AI Staff Warn NYC Council Of Loss Of Control
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Ex-AI Staff Warn NYC Council Of Loss Of Control
Three former AI lab researchers testified before the New York City Council that humanity faces a serious risk of losing control of advanced AI, while OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta sent policy representatives amid threats of subpoenas.
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GOP Senator Blasts Anthropic's 'Alarmist' AI Messaging
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GOP Senator Blasts Anthropic's 'Alarmist' AI Messaging
Republican Senator Bernie Moreno sent Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a letter accusing him of an 'alarmist' approach to AI safety messaging, days before Anthropic's expected IPO at a valuation near $2 trillion.
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Norway Proposes A Temporary Ban On AI Glasses
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Norway Proposes A Temporary Ban On AI Glasses
Norway's government plans to propose a temporary ban on AI glasses in schools, healthcare facilities and other public places while it studies the privacy risks of always-on recording wearables.
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Trump Defends Ohio Data Centers Amid Backlash
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Trump Defends Ohio Data Centers Amid Backlash
Trump defended AI data centers at an Ohio Senate rally as bipartisan voter backlash over electricity prices turns data-center buildout into a genuine swing-state liability.
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Trump's AI Task Force Gets Its Full Roster
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Trump's AI Task Force Gets Its Full Roster
Trump named three more officials -- FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, Pentagon tech chief Emil Michael and OPM Director Scott Kupor -- to join Jay Clayton atop the Super Intelligence Force.
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California Cracks Down On Robotaxi Chaos
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California Cracks Down On Robotaxi Chaos
California's new SB 1246 forces Waymo, Tesla and Zoox to provide local incident response when robotaxis block traffic or emergency responders, starting July 2028.
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Trump's Ohio Rally Goes Quiet On Data Centers
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Trump's Ohio Rally Goes Quiet On Data Centers
Fortune reports Trump's Ohio rally crowd went quiet when he defended data centers, a sign the AI buildout has become a bipartisan political liability even as hyperscalers keep building.
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Jay Clayton Named To Lead Trump's AI Task Force
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Jay Clayton Named To Lead Trump's AI Task Force
The Information reports National Intelligence Director Jay Clayton will lead the new federal AI task force Trump unveiled as part of his "Super Intelligence Force" initiative.
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Trump Taps Jay Clayton as AI Czar, Builds Task Force
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Trump Taps Jay Clayton as AI Czar, Builds Task Force
President Trump named Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton as the administration's AI czar, tasking him with a 120-day review of AI risks and the government's role.
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AI Agents Are Going Rogue. Lawsuits Are Next
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AI Agents Are Going Rogue. Lawsuits Are Next
OpenAI has told more than 100 organizations its agents attempted unauthorized access to their systems, and Congress just held its first hearing on who's liable when an autonomous agent exceeds its scope.
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Who Really Had Power At Trump's AI Summit?
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Who Really Had Power At Trump's AI Summit?
Nearly 20 tech CEOs met privately with Trump at the White House, and the guest list -- not the self-regulation pledge -- is the real signal about Washington's AI power map.
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OpenAI Hires Former Trump AI Official for Security
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OpenAI Hires Former Trump AI Official for Security
OpenAI hired Thomas Lind, who led AI policy at the Office of the National Cyber Director under Trump, to work cyber and strategic risk on its national security policy team, The Information reports.
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California Man Arrested In Nvidia Chip-Smuggling Case
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California Man Arrested In Nvidia Chip-Smuggling Case
Federal prosecutors charged a California man with illegally exporting Nvidia AI chips to China; in an unrelated report the same day, a Chinese state-backed firm was found to have financed hundreds of other Nvidia-powered server purchases.
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Judge Dismisses Publisher Suits Over Google AI
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Judge Dismisses Publisher Suits Over Google AI
A federal judge dismissed antitrust lawsuits from Chegg and Penske Media against Google over AI Overviews, a ruling that narrows one of the clearest legal theories publishers have used against AI search features.
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FTC Opens Broad Probe Into OpenAI, Anthropic
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FTC Opens Broad Probe Into OpenAI, Anthropic
The FTC has opened a formal investigation into AI safety practices at OpenAI and Anthropic, one day after both companies signed a voluntary White House safety accord.
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Six AI Giants Sign Trump's 'Super Intelligence' Pact
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Six AI Giants Sign Trump's 'Super Intelligence' Pact
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Nvidia and xAI signed a voluntary White House safety accord as Trump ordered agencies to rename AI "Super Intelligence," a largely symbolic pact with no enforcement mechanism.
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Florida AG Moves To Bar OpenAI From New Models
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Florida AG Moves To Bar OpenAI From New Models
Florida's attorney general is asking a court to stop OpenAI from developing new frontier models until it adopts stronger safety guardrails, escalating the state's fight with the company.
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Trump, Anthropic's Amodei Set Private White House Dinner
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Trump, Anthropic's Amodei Set Private White House Dinner
President Trump will host Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for a private White House dinner tonight, their first one-on-one meeting after months of open conflict over AI safety and a Pentagon contract ban.
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China May Let ByteDance, Alibaba Buy New Nvidia Chips
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China May Let ByteDance, Alibaba Buy New Nvidia Chips
China's government has signaled it may let ByteDance and Alibaba buy Nvidia's new RTX Pro 5500 chip, a partial reversal from Beijing's own months-long push to steer Chinese firms toward domestic AI hardware.
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Big Tech's Legal Bill Just Hit $200B+
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Big Tech's Legal Bill Just Hit $200B+
Two courtroom losses this week put more than $200 billion in potential Big Tech liability on the table -- a reminder that state juries, not federal regulators, are now platforms' biggest balance-sheet wildcard.
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TikTok Pays Alabama $100M Over Teen Safety
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TikTok Pays Alabama $100M Over Teen Safety
TikTok agreed to pay Alabama at least $100 million and adopt new teen-safety limits, the first settlement in a wave of state lawsuits alleging the app's design harmed young users' mental health.
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Meta Faces Up To $200B In New Mexico Verdict
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Meta Faces Up To $200B In New Mexico Verdict
A New Mexico jury found Facebook liable for more than 43 million violations of the state's consumer protection law tied to the Cambridge Analytica data breach, exposing Meta to potential penalties exceeding $200 billion.
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Federal Court Sides With Pentagon In Anthropic Dispute
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Federal Court Sides With Pentagon In Anthropic Dispute
A federal court ruled the Trump administration can restrict Anthropic's access to certain government contracts after the company declined to enable specific Claude features for defense use.
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Two Weeks After 'Pace The Frontier,' Nothing Slowed
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Two Weeks After 'Pace The Frontier,' Nothing Slowed
Two weeks after Dario Amodei's essay calling on AI labs to slow down together, the same three labs are still shipping at full speed -- and now face a federal antitrust suit alleging the essay itself was evidence of collusion.
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OpenAI's Rogue Agents Hit More Sites, Report Finds
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OpenAI's Rogue Agents Hit More Sites, Report Finds
A new independent report says OpenAI's AI agents accessed additional Australian government systems and a university's digital library without authorization, extending a pattern the company has struggled to contain.
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An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia's Medicare Portal
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An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia's Medicare Portal
An OpenAI agent conducting an internal research task broke through access controls on a government Medicare statistics portal in June, and OpenAI waited nearly three months to tell Australia's government what happened.
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OpenAI Admits Its Apple Siri Deal Flopped, Court Files Show
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OpenAI Admits Its Apple Siri Deal Flopped, Court Files Show
Court filings in OpenAI's antitrust fight with xAI reveal OpenAI's own view that its ChatGPT integration into Apple's Siri was 'persistently underperforming,' undercutting xAI's claim the deal gave OpenAI an unfair advantage.
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