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Anthropic engineering leader Addy Osmani said on X that Claude will decline to build video games that recreate someone else's intellectual property, responding to concerns that Anthropic had changed Claude Opus 5.5 to bl…
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has assessed that AI-powered malicious software is "highly likely" to be used in hacking attacks against the UK's critical national infrastructure — including power stations…
NCSC Chief Executive Richard Horne will warn Tuesday that Britain faces "the real prospect of an unprecedented rise in the number of cyber incidents" in the coming months, attributing the risk not to AI inventing new att…
OpenAI and Anthropic are publicly acknowledging limits to their own model-containment safeguards: OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said sandboxing frontier models holds only "to a point" and monitoring "to a further poi…
Advocate General Maciej Szpunar of the Court of Justice of the EU advised on November 3, 2026, in Case C-250/25, Like Company v Google Ireland, that training large language models on press articles is "freely permitted u…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's roughly 1,000 pages of records on CMS's WISeR (Wasteful and Inappropriate Services Reduction) model, released in September 2026, show that the six private vendors running AI-assisted …
Goldman Sachs introduced internal rules in October 2026 restricting Claude Code and GitHub Copilot to engineers, withdrawing access from traders and bankers who had used the tools for tasks such as monitoring trading flo…
Anthropic disclosed in a revised S-1A filing with the SEC on Monday that it may imminently meet its Responsible Scaling Policy's definition of "dramatically accelerated progress attributable to AI," the threshold it uses…
China's Ministry of Commerce published draft export controls on October 16 (Announcement No. 48) that would add 40 technologies to the country's export control catalogue, 23 of them in AI, covering model weights above 2 …
Beijing's revised Municipal Regulations on Unmanned Aircraft, approved by the city legislature's standing committee on September 11, make it illegal from November 15 to own, store, fly or carry a drone or its core parts …
The New York Times has sued Brave Software, maker of Brave Browser and Brave Search, alleging the company scraped Times journalism without permission, sold that content to AI companies including Anthropic, Perplexity and…
Etsy announced rules on Oct. 22 requiring sellers to include at least one unaltered photo of the actual item against a real background, banning bot-generated listings without human involvement, and prohibiting AI-created…
Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic have backed an IETF draft, the Machine-Readable Training Preference Signal, that would let site owners express AI training preferences through a shared `__usage_ai-training` policy…
Judge Kaplan denied Runway AI's motion to dismiss Ace Cam's DMCA Section 1201 anti-circumvention claim, which concerns YouTube videos and the alleged bypassing of access controls. The ruling follows similar recent decisi…
Goldman Sachs has revoked access to AI coding tools including Claude Code and GitHub Copilot for its traders and bankers, restricting the tools to engineers only, according to The Decoder. The bank cited "productivity an…
A developer working with ROC's age estimation API outlined a buffer-zone approach to facial age gating, arguing that comparing a model's estimated age directly against 18 lets minors through because every model has an er…
Anthropic added two sentences to the Claude Code prompt on Opus 5.5 to stop the coding assistant from recreating specific existing games, according to Addy Osmani, Anthropic's engineering and evangelism leader, who confi…
Google search liaison Gary Illyes said the company has "nothing to announce yet" on adding click and query data for AI Mode and AI Overviews to Search Console, after an SEO professional attributed an unnamed quote about …
Anthropic added two sentences to Claude Code's system prompt on Opus 5.5 to steer the tool away from recreating specific existing video games, Addy Osmani of Anthropic said in a reply on X. Osmani stated the change was m…
Anthropic added two sentences to Claude Opus 5.5's prompt on October 27 instructing the model not to recreate specific existing games, a rule with no opt-out flag, and users subsequently reported refusals on unrelated ta…