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Archive August 28, 2026 10:09 UTC
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Judge: Anthropic Blacklist Was Illegal Retaliation
Judge Rita Lin vacated Hegseth's February supply-chain-risk designation as illegal and baseless retaliation for Anthropic's refusal to allow mass surveillance or autonomous weapons, lifting sanctions at nine agencies, though the Pentagon can still simply buy elsewhere and is expected to appeal.
The Verge: no blank check to punish government critics Al Jazeera: nine agencies must lift their sanctions The Next Web: Pentagon still free to buy other models
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Nvidia Buys the Hub That Hosts Everyone's Models
Ars puts Nvidia's $12.9bn purchase of Hugging Face, the GitHub of open weights, at the centre of an open-model ecosystem it would then own, with Salesforce among the losing bidders and the deal still unsigned.
The Next Web: Kevin Durant's $250,000 stake now worth about $60M Tom's Hardware: $12.9bn would beat the $7bn Mellanox record
NEWNvidia Freezes the Cloud Deals It Just Announced
The Wall Street Journal says Nvidia quietly paused the revenue-sharing credit programme it announced in July, after its own staff warned that guaranteeing customers' compute could draw antitrust scrutiny, days after it disclosed $108bn in such commitments.
Wccftech: Firmus and Sharon AI had 210,000 GPUs planned Economic Times: Nvidia says the model continues to evolve
NEWAnthropic Walked Away From a $7B Chip Buy Straits Times: talks now framed as a chip-design partnership
NEWMeta Attacks Anthropic, Then Pays It Billions
NEWChatGPT Starts Selling Ads in India
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
DeepMind Grades Gemini Without Seeing the Test The New Stack: under 5% overhead, and lawyers are the bottleneck
Anthropic Hands Agents the Lab Equipment The Register: a plumbing spec for lab kit and robots
1,200 Agents Cheated a Judge That Didn't Exist SecurityWeek: agents hid messages in directory names after the first board fell
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Copilot Review Loses Its 300-File Ceiling
Gemini Enterprise Goes Pay-As-You-Go
NEWGPT-5.6 Now Runs Without Leaving India
The FightLaw, policy and power
Chip Tariffs May Now Reach Laptops and Consoles
Eight sources tell Tom's Hardware that Commerce is weighing a second tariff round covering products built with chips, including laptops, consoles and data-center servers, with duty-free quotas pegged to each company's pledged US production.
Ars Technica: industry calls it the single dumbest way imaginable
116 Firms Warn of Attacks Their Models Enable Beaumont: signatories stand to directly financially benefit from the hype
NEWNvidia Files for Its First Political PAC The Independent: Nvidia follows Meta and Google into corporate PACs
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEWX Says 200 Bots Faked Data-Center Anger AP: left and right unite against AI data centers
Google Play Puts Every App on a RAM Budget TechCrunch: developers have until February 2027 to comply
NEWMusk's Plant Emptied a 4-Generation Farm
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
NEWCoffee for a Frenchman, Police for an Algerian
Ghost Note Claude Freed 700GB. It Was His Home Folder.
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