The White House has imposed a government checkpoint on OpenAI's GPT-5.6, requiring federal approval for early access users, marking a shift from voluntary AI safety commitments to direct government in…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff on June 24 that GPT 5.6 will first be released as a limited preview to a small group of partners because the federal government asked OpenAI to stagger the rollout, ac…
New York Knicks owner James Dolan accepted President Trump's invitation for the team to visit the White House after winning the NBA championship, but Finals MVP Jalen Brunson hedged on the visit, sayi…
Senator Ted Cruz, as chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, holds significant influence over federal AI regulation but has not revealed his plans for advancing AI bills. His previous proposal for a 1…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was replaced by co-founder Tom Brown in White House meetings after officials found Amodei difficult to engage with, according to a report. The change comes as the Trump admi…
The European Union held talks with the White House to regain access to Anthropic's advanced AI models after a US export-control order cut off European access in mid-June. The order, citing a jailbreak…
Chinese AI models GLM 5.1 and Qwen 3.6 Plus, allegedly distilled from Anthropic's Opus 4.6, outperform the original on internal cybersecurity evaluations, including real-world vulnerability exploitati…
White House negotiations with Anthropic over a restrictive export-control directive improved after CEO Dario Amodei stopped participating and co-founder Tom Brown took over, according to Wired sources…
Anthropic's negotiations with the Trump administration to lift export controls on its Claude Fable 5 AI model have improved after CEO Dario Amodei was replaced by co-founder Tom Brown in talks, accord…
Anthropic sent a letter to U.S. senators and White House officials alleging that Alibaba's AI lab used 25,000 fraudulent accounts and 28.8 million exchanges to illicitly access and distill Anthropic's…
UFC fighter Josh Hokit defended calling former First Lady Michelle Obama a 'man' after his win at the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House, claiming it was a compliment about her toughness. Hokit …
OpenAI's new custom AI chip is designed to accelerate model training and inference, reducing reliance on external suppliers like Nvidia. The move aims to cut costs and boost performance as OpenAI scal…
President Donald Trump abruptly canceled plans to sign a bipartisan housing bill, blindsiding Senate Republicans who had hoped to use the measure as a midterm election selling point. Trump demanded th…
The Trump administration has grown frustrated with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and replaced him with cofounder Tom Brown in meetings about re-releasing the Claude Fable 5 AI model, which remains under …
The Trump administration's revenue-sharing deals with Nvidia and AMD, requiring 15% of China chip sales to be paid to the government, have yielded zero payments nearly a year later due to a lack of fo…
CNBC reports that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the White House are in ongoing talks about a possible U.S. government equity stake in the company, with discussions spanning over a year and Altman first ra…
Legion LegalTech Corp sued the U.S. federal government on Tuesday over a June 12 Commerce Department directive that forced Anthropic to shut down its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models worldwide, citing n…
The White House met with children's safety groups to discuss a package linking online safety bills to a federal AI framework, including the Kids Online Safety Act and the App Store Accountability Act.…
The US government imposed export controls on Anthropic's two most powerful AI models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, cutting off Britain and other allies from access. The ban, reportedly triggered by the model…
The US and China are competing for control of copper, a metal critical to AI, defense, and energy sectors. The Trump administration is considering tariffs on refined copper imports to rebuild domestic…