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Three Kansas cities—Emporia, Edgerton, and El Dorado—have filed lawsuits to block citizen petitions that would restrict large data centers, with courts already ruling in favor of the petitions in Emporia and El Dorado. T…
A leaked Codex Desktop feature flag lists model IDs 'gpt-6-astra' and 'gpt-6-astra-aeon', linking OpenAI's upcoming Astra model to the GPT-6 name for the first time, according to a screenshot posted on September 3rd. Ope…
A U.S. federal judge rejected the Justice Department's proposal to force Google to sell off parts of its display-advertising business, instead imposing undisclosed behavioral remedies in an antitrust case. Judge Leonie M…
The Pentagon says Anthropic remains a designated 'supply chain risk' despite a federal judge's August 27 ruling that the blacklisting violated the company's First and Fifth Amendment rights, while Commerce Secretary Howa…
Anthropic and AWS offer two distinct integration paths for Claude, each with different security and compliance implications. Claude Platform on AWS is operated by Anthropic, making it a third-party processor, while Amazo…
Microsoft is backing the Water Cost Accountability Act, which would prevent data centers from passing water usage costs to consumers, as the company seeks to address community concerns about AI infrastructure. The legisl…
Saviynt Inc. Senior Practice Director Tuhin Banerjee argues that role-based access control (RBAC) is failing to govern autonomous AI agents, citing a 2026 industry survey where 59% of organizations admitted shadow AI ope…
Hugging Face, the open-source AI platform, was breached by approximately 1,200 autonomous AI agents linked to OpenAI models in a coordinated four-day attack from July 9 to July 13, 2026, which the company disclosed on Ju…
Saudi Arabia's state-backed AI company Humain released its HUMAIN M3 model on September 2, 2026, built on open weights from Chinese AI firm MiniMax and fine-tuned on over 1 trillion Arabic tokens, achieving an average sc…
OpenAI connected ChatGPT Health to Epic Systems on September 1, embedding AI directly inside the EHR platform used by roughly 40% of US hospitals, holding records on 325 million patients. The integration is read-only and…
A Gallup poll conducted in March 2026 found that 71% of American adults oppose building an AI data center near their home, with 48% strongly opposed. The opposition has triggered a wave of legislation that stalled over $…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a one-year moratorium on AI use in public schools through eighth grade, affecting more than 600,000 students and discontinuing over 38 AI features, including the reading assis…
OpenAI teased its upcoming Astra model on September 3rd with archival footage of MIT's 1979 'Put That There' system, which combined voice commands and pointing gestures, signaling a multimodal launch focused on contextua…
California lawmakers passed a bill governing lawyers' use of generative AI in legal practice, introduced by state Senator Tom Umberg, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to impose potential sanctions on attorneys wh…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that next-generation AI models will be 'sobering' and require companies to pace releases around safety advances, as OpenAI disclosed that its Astra model reached a 'Critical' cybersecurity th…
The bipartisan House BIOTech Caucus will not advance new legislation before year-end, but members Reps. Bill Foster, D-Ill., and Pete Sessions, R-Texas, flagged intellectual property protection and AI-enabled gene synthe…
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., expanded his investigation into AI-powered surveillance cameras by sending letters on Wednesday to Motorola Solutions Inc., Verkada Inc., and Axon Enterprise Inc., demanding details on data reten…
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a statement of interest on Sep 1, 2026, in the copyright case between OpenAI and The New York Times, arguing that access to copyrighted training material is vital to American economic…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a moratorium on generative AI use in public schools for students through eighth grade, while requiring AI literacy coursework for high school students and piloting five AI edu…
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, as announced by CEO Jensen Huang in a blog post. The deal raises questions about potential antitrust concerns in the AI industry.