The White House has begun dictating which partners receive pre-release access to frontier AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, a power previously held by the labs. Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 …
The US Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has been sidelined by the Trump administration despite having strong technical talent, lacking money, authority, and influence over frontier model…
The US Commerce Department has granted licenses to ZTE's telecom subsidiary ZTE Kangxun Telecom and server maker Maginfra to purchase Nvidia's H200 AI chips, along with a Kingsoft subsidiary receiving…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called for an independent standards body modeled on FINRA to review frontier AI models before release, proposing that labs hand over models up to 30 days early for t…
The US Commerce Department eased export controls for the UAE, granting license-free access to advanced AI chips and military tech in a deal no other Middle Eastern nation has received. The policy chan…
Under Secretary Jeffrey Kessler confirmed to the House Foreign Affairs Committee that Nvidia's H200 AI chip shipments to China have begun, but described the volume as 'trivial' and 'very few.' The Tru…
US Commerce official Jeffrey Kessler told lawmakers that Nvidia has shipped only a 'very small quantity' of H200 AI chips to mainland China and Hong Kong, calling the exports 'trivial' despite approva…
The US Commerce Department has signaled new regulatory action targeting chips and artificial intelligence, adding further uncertainty for semiconductor firms already navigating shifting export control…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis proposed a US-led Frontier AI Standards Body to evaluate advanced AI models for national security and cybersecurity threats, modeled after FINRA. The proposal, coord…
A top U.S. official told Congress that shipments of Nvidia H200 chips to China and Hong Kong have begun, but the number is "very few." The Commerce Department had cleared around 10 Chinese firms to bu…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called for the creation of a U.S. Frontier AI Standards Body to conduct mandatory national security reviews of AI models before deployment, building on President Tru…
A comparison of coding agents Claude Code and OpenCode revealed a 26,000-token overhead gap per call, shifting focus from model capability to token cost as the key metric. Meanwhile, the U.S. Commerce…
The Commerce Department received only 78 applications for its American AI Exports Program, far below the hundreds expected, raising questions about the program's coordination, value, and timing. The p…
Microsoft President Brad Smith criticized the U.S. government's approach to AI regulation, calling it 'regulation without transparent or complete rules' during a speech at the AI for Good Global Summi…
The Trump administration approved license-free access for the UAE to buy advanced US AI chips, a decision critics call a 'corrupt deal' after a UAE royal invested $500 million in a Trump family crypto…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 was taken offline by the US government on June 12 after a reported jailbreak, then returned on July 1 with a stricter safety classifier. Benchmark tests by KiloBench show th…
The US Commerce Department reclassified the United Arab Emirates from export control groups D:3 and D:4 to Group A:5, allowing license-free access to advanced AI chips from Nvidia and AMD. The move, t…
The Trump administration plans to ease export restrictions on the United Arab Emirates, allowing the Gulf state to purchase advanced technologies including AI chips from Nvidia, AMD, and Cerebras. The…
The Trump administration ordered Anthropic to disable its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models worldwide on June 12, 2026, citing a jailbreak that could unlock offensive cyber capabilities, but reversed the…
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 to the public after the Trump administration approved the model, ending weeks of restricted access. The model family includes three tiers, with the flagship Sol offering 54% gr…