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Meta drops opposition to kids online safety bill if it overwrites state AI laws
The company’s objections helped kill the kids' safety bill nearly two years ago.
Jun 16, 2026
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Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests
Anthropic's popularity with business users is growing so well that the latest beef with the government might actually boost it, data from Ramp suggests.
Jun 16, 2026
Ars Technica
Trump admin tries to block Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI's gas turbines
NAACP lawsuit says xAI uses gas turbines without permits for Grok data center.
Jun 16, 2026
The Register
AMD's Mext buy shows how AI could solve the RAM shortage it created
Running low on memory, can't afford more? The House of Zen's latest acquisition puts an AI spin on flash-based memory expansion
Jun 16, 2026
Ars Technica
Anthropic "pauses" token-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK
Move originally planned for Monday would have heavily increased power users' costs.
Jun 16, 2026
The Register
Intel-born networking tech resurfaces as InfiniBand alternative for DoE supers
Omni-Path lights up Lawrence Livermore system at 400 Gbps
Jun 16, 2026
Ars Technica
Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress
Pentagon also claims 1.5 million personnel are using generative AI tools.
Jun 16, 2026
Ars Technica
Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year
Audited accounting shows growing revenues being dwarfed by R&D, other expenses.
Jun 16, 2026
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DOJ claims xAI’s unpermitted gas turbines are a matter of ‘national, economic, and energy security’
The Justice department says the Pentagon needs xAI to keep using its unpermitted gas turbines.
Jun 16, 2026
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Probably raises $9M to build a more reliable kind of AI
Probably wants to prevent hallucinations and factual errors from reaching users, and achieve accuracy on par with deterministic systems.
Jun 16, 2026
MIT Technology Review
The Download: the first brain implant power user and South Korea’s AI obsession
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. This man with ALS is the first “power user” of a brain implant…
Jun 16, 2026
Ars Technica
Critical Copilot vulnerability allowed hackers to steal 2FA code from users
SearchLeak exploit shows why the industry's approach to LLM security fails over and over.
Jun 16, 2026
MIT Technology Review
Want to get a data center online quickly? Give it some flex.
At the end of a tense and scoreless first half of a soccer match between the English men’s team and rival Germany, millions of Brits let out a collective sigh and did what they so often do in moments …
Jun 16, 2026
The Register
Inside the cloud's new agentic AI-ready, Arm-powered foundation
PARTNER CONTENT: From hyperscalers to enterprises, performance-per-watt and system-level efficiency are redefining the cloud compute foundation
Jun 16, 2026
The Verge
Inside the fight over Claude Mythos 5
As the rest of the country celebrated the USA's first World Cup win and the New York Knicks championship, Anthropic spent its weekend fighting the Trump administration over its latest model release. A…
Jun 16, 2026
Politico Technology
Trump promised to bring order to AI oversight. That lasted 2 weeks.
New restrictions on Anthropic are causing industry advocates to worry the White House’s plan for a laissez-faire approach to the technology is crumbling.
Jun 16, 2026
Politico Technology
Trump officials meet with Anthropic to discuss a truce
It will probably take more than a few days to reach a resolution that eases export restrictions on the company’s newest AI model, one White House official said.
Jun 15, 2026
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The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak
The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message is clear: The AI industry isn't immune fro…
Jun 15, 2026
The Register
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher
According to the one person who actually read the research paper
Jun 15, 2026
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Meta’s new ‘AI Mode’ on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms
Meta announced Monday that it's rolling out a wave of new AI features on Facebook, the latest sign of the company's effort to catch up in the AI race and keep users more engaged on the platform.
Jun 15, 2026
The Register
Feds snooze as US datacenter law set to lapse with no replacement in site
Federal Data Center Enhancement Act (FDCEA) of 2023 covers standards including security and sustainability
Jun 15, 2026
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Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models
A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts urged the White House to remove export-control restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models, arguing that the order is going to limit the abil…
Jun 15, 2026
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
This man with ALS is “the first power user” of a brain implant that lets him speak
Casey Harrell has had a set of electrodes embedded in his brain for almost three years. Harrell, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and is paralyzed, first used his brain-computer interface (…
Jun 15, 2026
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Salesforce acquires AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6B
Salesforce says it wants to use Fin's team and technology to improve Agentforce, its existing enterprise platform that businesses can use to build custom AI agents that automate tasks.
Jun 15, 2026
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Sarvam becomes India’s newest AI unicorn with $234 million funding round led by HCLTech
Indian IT services company HCLTech is investing $150 million in the Bengaluru startup.
Jun 15, 2026
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As AI agents become employees, NewCore emerges with $66M to give them identities
NewCore argues the next challenge in enterprise security will be managing AI agents, not people.
Jun 15, 2026
Politico Technology
People around the world see a winner on AI — and it’s not the US
Respondents in key U.S.-allied countries increasingly see China as the world’s AI leader, while American optimism about the technology continues to erode.
Jun 15, 2026
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The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg
What makes this combustible: at the very moment that tens of thousands of workers are being shown the door, a small cohort of AI insiders is becoming wealthy on a scale that's hard to comprehend.
Jun 15, 2026
The Verge
China may have accessed Mythos
According to a new report from Semafor, the White House's decision to impose export restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos was driven in part by fears that it had been accessed by a group linked to China.…
Jun 14, 2026
The Register
AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter
From Java tests to Shai-Hulud, bots keep proving they'll swallow anything you feed them
Jun 14, 2026
The Register
EU sovereignty push gives tech buyers a new alphabet soup to swallow
Brussels presses on despite US fury as it looks to enforce cloud autonomy and bolster open source
Jun 14, 2026
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As Anthropic suspends access to new models, India debates its AI future
Tech leaders debate whether the Anthropic episode is a wake-up call for India’s AI ambitions.
Jun 14, 2026
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Meta reportedly moves to unwind $2B Manus deal after Beijing’s demand
This is the most concrete step yet toward complying with a divestiture order Beijing issued roughly two months ago on national security grounds.
Jun 14, 2026
The Verge
Amazon security research reportedly led to the White House’s Anthropic Fable ban
According to the Wall Street Journal, the export control directive that led to Anthropic cutting off access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 was triggered in part by cybersecurity research from Amazon and conv…
Jun 13, 2026
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KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations
Once again, AI proves to be an unreliable source of information about AI.
Jun 13, 2026
Politico Technology
What most battleground House districts have in common: data centers
As politicians from city councils to Washington fight over data centers, campaigns are navigating the backlash.
Jun 13, 2026
Politico Technology
A GOP revolt over AI is taking shape
“The Republican Party has a choice to make — perhaps the defining choice of its next half century,” Sen. Josh Hawley wrote in an essay on AI.
Jun 13, 2026
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Amazon CEO reportedly raised Anthropic model concerns before government crackdown
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy may have been the source of security concerns that led Anthropic to cut off worldwide access to two models on Friday.
Jun 13, 2026
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OpenAI faces investigation from state attorneys general
It's not clear which states are involved, but they're asking about everything from OpenAI's ad policies to its handling of health data.
Jun 13, 2026
Politico Technology
Anthropic suspends access to latest AI models following US order
“The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance,” Anthropic said in a statement Friday evening.
Jun 13, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
Visual Language Models Train Robots to Read Human Emotions
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. As robots advance in terms of dexterity and other physical capabilities, it becomes more likely that hu…
Jun 13, 2026
The Verge
Anthropic cuts off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access following government order
On Friday evening, the government ordered Anthropic to block access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nations, both inside and outside the US, due to national security concerns. That order inclu…
Jun 13, 2026
The Verge
The future of Hollywood isn’t feeding prompts into vanilla gen AI models
Concept art from Dear Upstairs Neighbors that used to train custom builds of Google’s Veo and Imagen models. | Image: Google DeepMind For all the noise that's been made about how generative AI is pois…
Jun 13, 2026
Ars Technica
Anthropic shuts down Fable, Mythos models following Trump admin directive
Commerce dept. worries that a Fable 5 "jailbreak" could be a national security threat.
Jun 13, 2026
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Anthropic’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI
Anthropic isn't hiding its frustration. "We disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people," the …
Jun 13, 2026
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Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it
A new report suggests the unit, which employs 6,500 people, is on the verge of revolt.
Jun 12, 2026
The Register
SK Hynix to boost memory production 3x ... you can wait another 8 years, right?
We're moving as fast as we can, says SK Group chair
Jun 12, 2026
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Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google
The tech giant said a group called "Outsider Enterprise" used AI to scam hundreds of thousands of victims, sending 2.5 million text messages over a span of two weeks.
Jun 12, 2026
Ars Technica
Here's what Jeff Bezos' new startup Prometheus will do
It isn't the only startup tackling physical AI, but it's one of the best-funded.
Jun 12, 2026
Ars Technica
Ukraine's one-time test used fully autonomous drones to kill Russian soldiers
Full autonomy is rare, but Ukraine is installing AI modules on drones and robots.
Jun 12, 2026