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The Trump administration forced Anthropic to take its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models offline, blocking access for foreign nationals including employees. The shutdown has intensified global calls for sovereign AI developm…
Citadel Securities warned that the Federal Reserve should consider interest-rate hikes rather than cuts, citing reaccelerating inflation and a $650 billion AI investment wave that could force tighter monetary policy. The…
The US government is pressuring AI company Anthropic to make its large language models unhackable, accusing the firm of ignoring a Trump-era cybersecurity directive and releasing its Fable 5 model without approval. Talks…
Anthropic shut down access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after the Trump administration imposed export controls, treating the models like weapons. Amazon, a major investor in Anthropic, tipped off the government …
A federal immigration judge granted asylum to a California woman born in Iran and adopted by a U.S. veteran, ending deportation threats from the Department of Homeland Security. The woman, known as Ms. S, faced removal d…
Florida's facial recognition system FACESNXT has led to at least two documented wrongful arrests, with Jalil Richardson spending 93 days in jail and Robert Dillon losing his job after being falsely matched to crimes they…
The Seattle Fire Department has been using Corti AI to listen to all 911 medical calls since December 2023 without public disclosure or city council approval, routing callers to a nurse line in Texas. The department did …
UC Berkeley's computer science enrollment decline is driven by supply-side constraints, not AI or job market fears, as the university reduced admissions targets and restricted course access due to rising labor costs. Des…
Big Tech lobbyists are making a final push for a federal AI preemption law, but the White House's plan to combine it with child safety legislation has caused confusion and political backlash. The proposed deal, which wou…
An AI researcher since the mid-2010s laments that the field has become less enjoyable after ChatGPT, citing a shift from blue-sky exploration to economic impact, unaffordable GPUs for academic labs, and unwanted commerci…
Google's John Mueller said on a Search Relations podcast that llms.txt files cannot be used by LLM systems for discovery because they are self-reported and untrustworthy, pointing back to standard HTML pages and internal…
The U.S. government ordered Anthropic to block foreign national access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 on June 12, prompting the company to disable both models for all customers. The order, received at 5:21 p.m. ET…
A developer has released Synapse AI Gateway, an open-source governance-first AI gateway designed for regulated teams that need audit trails and policy enforcement without waiting for enterprise procurement. The gateway e…
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick imposed export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models over military intelligence concerns, forcing the company to disable access globally. The directive bars foreign n…
Dozens of Stanford University graduates walked out of their commencement ceremony as Google CEO Sundar Pichai began his keynote address, protesting the company's work with the US government on AI. The walkout reflects br…
Woodland resident John Lipsey IV pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter on Friday for the 2020 disappearance and presumed death of his roommate, Luther Harris, in Vacaville. The plea agreement came weeks after a ju…
The U.S. Army commissioned three technology executives—Dane Knecht of Cloudflare, Sam Pullara of Sutter Hill Ventures, and Serkan Piantino of Facebook AI Research—into its Executive Innovation Corps (Detachment 201) to b…
The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to block foreign nationals from accessing its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models due to a jailbreak vulnerability, prompting Anthropic to shut down both models globally. The move …
The United Kingdom announced a ban on social media for under-16s, more restrictive than Australia's, including restrictions on live-streaming and AI chatbots. The ban, supported by 90% of parents in a national consultati…
The White House's blocking of Anthropic's Mythos and Fable AI models from European allies is driving foreign nations to accelerate open-source AI adoption and build independent AI hubs, benefiting competitors like Mistra…