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Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Microsoft announced a new robots.txt token, __usage_ai-training, that lets webmasters block or allow all four companies' AI crawlers with two lines of code instead of listing each user agent…
CMS sent formal notices of problems to four of the six vendors running its AI-assisted Medicare coverage review pilot, the WISeR model, according to Freedom of Information Act documents released Tuesday by the Electronic…
Meta postponed new business-account terms, originally set to take effect Oct. 30, that would have authorized automated software to "index, cache, analyze, collect, retrieve, or crawl" business clients' web domains, after…
Anthropic added two sentences to the system-level prompt that steers Claude Code on Opus 5.5, telling the model to "build original games, games in a genre, and games from the user's own designs and assets" but not to "bu…
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek's September 8 executive order pausing unapproved data center requests on state-owned land has led the Oregon Department of Transportation to pause 20 state fiber permit applications, the Oregon…
Anthropic added two sentences to the Claude Code system prompt for Claude Opus 5.5 to stop the model from recreating specific existing video games, a change first flagged by AI decompilation enthusiast "chasm" around Oct…
Anthropic has instructed its Claude generative AI tool to decline user requests to recreate or clone existing games, restricting the model to generating only "original" games from its training data instead of risking inf…
PJM Interconnection filed a revised proposal with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a special power auction, the Reliability Backstop Procurement, that could pay generators more than $20 billion over 15 years …
OpenAI said on October 30 that it plans to honor a shared robots.txt signal letting site operators state a preference on whether their content is used for foundational generative-AI training, with Google announcing suppo…
ADI Research Series released Paper 4, "Behavioral Governance of Artificial Workers: Evaluating Completed Work Under Declared Authority and Behavioral Requirements," as a public preprint on Zenodo under DOI 10.5281/zenodo…
Deedglass, an open-source, self-hosted tool that sits between AI agents and the databases and health records they modify, launched with a demo in which an agent reported updating 1 row while Postgres actually changed 301…
OpenAI released a system card addendum for GPT-Rosalind-6, a frontier biology and drug-discovery reasoning model built on the same weights as its flagship GPT-6 Astra with no additional training data or post-training. Op…
Goldman Sachs is restricting traders' and bankers' access to advanced AI coding tools, including Anthropic's Claude and Microsoft GitHub, under updated internal guidelines announced in October 2026, limiting those tools …
New York City's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, the Commission on Human Rights and the Taxi and Limousine Commission issued a joint enforcement policy stating that employers cannot escape liability for law …
OpenAI launched its Grid Protectors Program, pledging to cut electricity use at data center campuses it directly develops during extreme weather or other grid emergencies, modeled on its Georgia deal. The template is Pro…
The U.S. Census Bureau's Business Trends and Outlook Survey now asks businesses whether they used "Super Intelligence or SI (formerly referred to as Artificial Intelligence or AI)," a wording change made under Executive …
U.S. District Judge Debra M. Brown denied xAI's motion to dismiss on October 30, rejecting the company's argument that the gas turbines powering its Colossus 2 data center in Mississippi are exempt from the Clean Air Act…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed Senate Bill S9051B on October 28, 2026, requiring operators of covered AI-companion features to confirm a user is not a minor before granting access; the law takes effect January 1, …
A labor court in Parauapebas, Pará, fined lawyers Alcina Cristina Medeiros Castro and Luanna de Sousa Alves R$84,250.09 after Brazil's labor judiciary AI system, Galileu, detected a white-on-white prompt injection in the…
Meta Platforms confirmed it discussed privacy concerns about its AI-enabled smart glasses with Hong Kong's Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD), as the eyewear goes on sale in the city. The PCPD ha…