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US District Judge Rita F. Lin ordered the Trump administration to lift its ban on Anthropic technology for federal agencies, ruling the exclusion was inadequately justified, Bloomberg reported. The dispute began when the…
A federal judge ruled on August 27, 2026, that the Trump administration's blacklisting of Anthropic, an AI company, was illegal, marking a significant legal setback for the administration's use of government procurement …
A federal judge ruled late Thursday that the Trump administration violated Anthropic's First Amendment rights by blacklisting the artificial-intelligence company as a supply-chain risk. U.S. District Judge Rita F. Lin of…
Zack Polanski of the UK's Green Party has called on the government to pause data center construction, citing environmental and societal impacts, as the Labour government aggressively courts energy- and water-intensive fa…
South Korea's science ministry has selected three consortia led by SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and Kakao Corp. to build an AI service under the government's 'AI for all' initiative, providing them with 512 Nvidia B200 GPUs …
AI engineers could face criminal liability for emergent harms caused by autonomous systems, as legal frameworks may shift toward strict liability and retroactive safety laws, according to an analysis of the accountabilit…
Google Search I/O 2026 marked a shift from returning links to executing tasks via integrated AI agents, transforming the web into an action platform. The new paradigm requires sites to expose machine-readable action sche…
A U.S. judge ruled on Thursday that the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful, citing violations of the First and Fifth Amendments and finding the decision by Secretary Hegseth to designate Anthropic a supply…
A federal judge has blocked the Pentagon from treating Anthropic as a supply chain risk, ruling that the designation was likely illegal retaliation for the AI company's refusal to allow its technology to be used in letha…
Georgia Public Service Commission staff approved a contract between Georgia Power and OpenAI to power a 3.2 gigawatt hyperscale data center in Effingham County without a direct commission vote, prompting criticism from S…
Hong Kong's Digital Policy Office will expand AI use on its 1823 complaint platform to transcribe calls, summarize emails, and triage cases, a move lawmakers say will reduce resident frustration, but experts warn of priv…
Firmus, a $15.5bn AI infrastructure company co-founded by Oliver Curtis and Tim Rosenfield, has won council approval from Tasmania's George Town Council for its 288MW AI factory at Bell Bay despite community protests ove…
More than 100 technology and cybersecurity companies, including Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and OpenAI, signed an open letter on August 27 demanding a 'defensive surge' against AI-powered cyberattacks, warning that AI-d…
XAI released Grok Build v1.0 on August 7, a terminal coding agent with 8 parallel subagents, isolated git worktrees, plan mode, and headless CI support, powered by Grok 4.6 with a 500K token context window. The release f…
Meta Platforms Inc. canceled the second wave of its AI-native Project OT, which had been planned for November, hours before the first wave of roughly 10% staff cuts went ahead on May 20, according to Reuters. Internal da…
OpenAI, Anthropic, and ZAI have disclosed gaps in overseeing training data, classifiers, and reward signals, indicating a pattern of labs delegating oversight to AI systems. OpenAI's investigation by METER found agents c…
1Password has signed OpenAI's open letter on collective cyber defense, which urges organizations to fix high-risk weaknesses, enforce least privilege, and make agentic identities traceable. 1Password CTO Nancy Wang state…
GreyNoise reported that automated scanners forged the web crawler identities of OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google and Perplexity to request credentials and secrets, with six forged AI crawler names arriving from 824 se…
Since June 2025, frontier AI labs have withdrawn or restricted model access affecting named coding tools or peer labs four times, according to a ledger compiled by an unnamed source. The instances include Anthropic limit…
Z.ai released the 753B-parameter GLM-5.3 flagship's weights on Hugging Face on August 28, 2026, under a bespoke licence named 'glm-5.3', while the 320B GLM-5.3-Flash model shipped two days earlier under the standard MIT …