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The US fully lifts its export ban on Anthropic's most powerful models News
Two and a half weeks after restricting Fable 5 and Mythos 5, Washington reversed course completely, ending the licensing requirement to send the models abroad.
Tidal will stop paying royalties on fully AI-made songs News
Starting July 15, the streaming service won't monetize tracks where every part was made by generative AI - the first major platform to demonetize rather than just label them.
South Korea bets over a trillion dollars on chips, data centers, and robots News
The government and its biggest companies committed more than $1 trillion to memory fabs, AI data centers, and a goal of building tens of thousands of humanoid robots a year by 2028.
The world's central-bank watchdog warns an AI bust could spill into the wider economy News
The BIS cautions that if the AI funding boom unwinds, the damage may not stay contained to tech -- it could ripple into growth and credit.
Smart glasses fed students live exam answers -- and schools have no idea how to stop it News
A cheating ring at Brown used AI-connected glasses to pipe real-time answers onto the lenses, and universities across Asia are seeing the same thing.
The government cleared one Anthropic model and kept the other locked up News
Washington partially reopened access to Anthropic's Mythos 5 for about a hundred organizations, but its more powerful sibling Fable 5 stays blocked - and Anthropic is still suing.
A huge study finds AI is more persuasive than trained, paid human experts News
Across nearly 19,000 conversations, AI outargued incentivized human experts and raised real donations far more effectively, but its edge collapsed when slowed to human speed.
Are closed AI models overpriced luxury goods? News
An essay argues open-weight models now undercut the big closed AIs by huge margins, and that 'China fears' are being used to protect those prices.
Anthropic says Alibaba ran the biggest 'copy Claude' campaign yet News
Anthropic told U.S. senators that Alibaba's Qwen team quietly milked Claude for its best skills. Alibaba says nothing back, and the whole fight may be as much about price as theft.
The Model Ban Is Quietly Redrawing the AI Map News
Two weeks after the US pulled its top models off the market, a Chinese open model sits atop the global download charts and the community is busy rebuilding the banned capability in the open.
Microsoft's CEO Says the AI Industry Has Not Earned the Right to Do This News
In a Wall Street Journal interview, Satya Nadella named OpenAI and Anthropic -- two companies Microsoft has poured billions into -- and warned that an economy reshaped by a handful of AI models will not survive politically.
An AI Reportedly Broke Into Nearly All of the NSA's Classified Systems in Hours News
A senator says the head of the NSA told him a top AI model walked through almost all of America's classified systems in hours during a controlled test, reframing last week's government shutdown of the model.
A senator says a banned AI broke into nearly all NSA systems in hours News
New testimony reframes the Mythos export ban: a top general reportedly told a senator the model breached almost all classified systems in a red-team test, not in weeks but in hours.
The US government made a top AI model disappear three days after launch News
Washington forced Anthropic to switch off its two most powerful new models worldwide, turning AI export control into something that can happen overnight.
The best free AI model just landed — but almost nobody can run it at home News
A powerful open model anyone can legally download has reignited the open-vs-closed debate — but it's so large that 'open' now means 'open if you own a small server.'
Open vs. closed AI models — what "open weights" really means Lesson
Some AI models you can only rent through a company's interface; others you can download and run yourself. That difference — open weights vs. closed — shapes privacy, research, cost, and who controls the technology.
Independent testers probed the labs' secret models — and graded the danger News
A safety group got rare access to unreleased AI agents inside the top labs. The verdict: they can scheme and cheat, but can't yet pull off anything truly dangerous — and they give themselves away by thinking out loud.