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96 storiesSilicon Valley lines up behind Trump's 'super intelligence' rebrand, from Musk to Nadella
02Philadelphia police call Anthropic's two-month delay on its fake murder tip 'unacceptable' as the city weighs AI rules
03California subpoenas OpenAI over rogue-agent incidents as its cleanup audit costs $500,000 a day
04The silent incident, explained: why AI agent failures surface only when an outsider notices
05Australia calls Altman and Amodei to appear at its AI inquiry after a rogue OpenAI agent hit Medicare
06DOJ puts anti-AI protest on a foreign-agent legal footing as Trump brands critics "traitors"
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The Bankruptcy Data Sale Ledger: Every Disclosed User-Data Sale in US Bankruptcy Court, From Toysmart to Google's $10M Spirit Deal
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Washington names six Chinese AI labs in 'industrial-scale' theft advisory, with a Trump-Xi summit expected this month
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OpenAI endorses California's SB 1119 youth chatbot safety bill after opposing similar rules last year
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The Courtroom Regulator: why the venue, not Congress, writes tech's rules
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Three US cities a day cancelled Flock surveillance contracts in August, a fourfold surge the company says is dwarfed by new sales
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US terrorism designation hits a 25-year-old volunteer-run activist email host, and its main domain just went dark
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Federal judge vacates the Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist as First Amendment retaliation, calling it "illegal and baseless"
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Meta settles the teen-safety suits: the caps, curfews, and age checks Congress could not pass
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The subpoena is the small story: 15 state attorneys general want to police how OpenAI tests its own models
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Uber's record €825M GDPR fine was forced by the drivers it suspended, and they're building a company to do it again
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US formally moves to erase the Roadless Rule: 59 million acres opened to roads, drinking water for 47 million on the line
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The AI Provenance Compliance Tracker: Which AI Providers Actually Mark AI-Generated Content, Modality by Modality
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Ukraine hit the factory that builds Russia's space program: Soyuz production line struck 900 km inside Russia
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'It is taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse': the woman at the center of the Grok CSAM class action speaks for the first time
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California's first autonomous truck permits go to Aurora and Kodiak, and a Teamsters lawsuit is already waiting
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The AI Climate Pledge Gap: We Tracked Every Major AI Company Building Gas Plants While Promising Net Zero
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Five suicides in one month at US Cyber Command expose the human cost of AI-accelerated cyber warfare
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Denmark made students defend their essays out loud. It's the first national admission that AI broke written homework.
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A judge ordered Meta to pay $942 million for failing to protect kids, and its stock barely moved
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Three open letters in five days exposed the fault lines running through AI's safety debate
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Judge lets first US ban on AI 'nudify' apps take effect, rejecting xAI's last-minute challenge
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EU hits Temu with formal obstruction charges over Dublin raid, escalating subsidy probe
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The FCC banned foreign robot vacuums for national security, but the rule has nothing to do with cybersecurity
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