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The U.S. government shut down Anthropic's most powerful AI model, Claude Fable 5, just five days after its release, marking the most dramatic AI shutdown in history due to technical and political concerns.
Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta was widely mocked after comparing the removal of President Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Center to the fall of the Berlin Wall during a nearly 11-hour live stream. Acosta, who left CNN…
Bittensor's native token $TAO surged 30% after the US government forced Anthropic to disable its advanced AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 under export control directives, driving investors toward decentralized AI alternat…
The Trump administration escalated its war against Anthropic by issuing an export control on its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models, forcing the company to shut them down over alleged national security threats. The move came…
Anthropic senior technical staff will meet with Commerce Department officials in Washington on Monday to resolve the escalating crisis over its suspended Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models, which has spiraled into a full-blo…
A German court in Munich ruled that Google can be held directly liable for incorrect answers generated by its AI overview feature, rejecting the company's argument that it should receive the same legal treatment as conve…
The Cheapskate's Guide has blocked all internet traffic due to aggressive web scraping by AI companies, but offers a human-only access method. The site provides advice on buying inexpensive computers amid historically hi…
The European Union officially launched the accession process for Ukraine and Moldova on Monday, requiring both countries to commit to years of political reforms. Ukraine views EU membership as a security guarantee amid i…
The UK announced a ban on social media for children under 16, set to take effect in spring 2027, following Australia's lead. Australia's six-month-old ban has seen 70% of under-16s still accessing platforms, raising enfo…
AWS WAF launched an AI traffic monetization capability that lets content owners charge AI bots for access to web content at the network edge. The feature enables per-request pricing by content path or bot category, with …
The Pentagon's enterprise generative AI hub, GenAI.mil, now has 1.5 million daily users, up from 80,000 at its launch in December 2025, Pentagon CTO Emil Michael announced at a Hudson Institute event. The rapid adoption …
Rio de Janeiro's municipal IT company IplanRIO released Rio-3.5-Open-397B on Hugging Face under an MIT license, claiming it as a government-developed 397-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model. Nex-AGI published weig…
Yale University researchers proposed a Contextual Copyleft AI License (CCAI) that would treat generative AI models trained on open-source code as derivative works, requiring developers to disclose model architecture and …
The Atlantic published searchable databases revealing that millions of copyrighted songs, including hits from Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny, were used to train AI music models. The investigation highlights ongoing legal bat…
Rio de Janeiro's municipal IT company, IplanRIO, released an AI model called Rio 3.5 Open 397B that outperformed DeepSeek V4 Pro on a key benchmark, built by fine-tuning Alibaba's open-source Qwen model. The achievement …
Over 30 industry and academic professionals signed a letter to the Trump administration asking it to lift export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model, citing international competition and network vulnerabilities. The…
Author Cory Doctorow discusses his lifelong relationship with technology, from a cardboard computer to professional programming, and explains how his background as a digital rights activist and science fiction writer inf…
Roughly 100 cybersecurity experts published an open letter demanding the US government reverse its order for Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5, arguing the ban hurts defenders more than hackers by removing the …
Chris Person's quote 'I love the computer' on the Aftermath Podcast sparked a personal reflection on the author's lifelong passion for computers, from an early encounter with an IBM 486 DX6 in the 1990s to the influence …
A developer proposes a new open source license called 'AGPL Pro Max' to extend copyleft protections to large language models trained on open source code. The license would require that any LLM trained on open source soft…