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Signal: The state moved first this cycle - a court, Seoul, ICE - while the labels the industry runs on, national origin and neutrality alike, stopped holding.
Judge: Pentagon Wrote Its Anthropic Case After the Fact
Judge Rita Lin vacated Hegseth's designation as unlawful First Amendment retaliation, finding the Pentagon's central claim - that Anthropic could alter or disable Claude models already inside its systems - entirely unfounded and assembled after the decision had been made.
Fox: Pentagon CTO says Anthropic told him 'we have our own constitution' Wired: the 59-page ruling that blocked the Pentagon's blacklist Al Jazeera: nine agencies must lift their sanctions
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Nvidia Pays 80x Revenue to Feed Its Own Clouds
Nvidia's $12.9bn for the GitHub of open weights values it at roughly 80 times revenue, and Wedbush reads the premium as a captive customer for the $36bn of cloud capacity Nvidia has already underwritten.
Proactive: 80x revenue, and a captive buyer for $36bn of underwritten cloud Tom's Hardware: $12.9bn would beat the $7bn Mellanox record
Nvidia Denies It Froze Its Cloud Deals Channel NewsAsia: the Journal's report that the programme was quietly paused
Anthropic Walked Away From a $7B Chip Buy Straits Times: talks now framed as a chip-design partnership
Meta Attacks Anthropic, Then Pays It Billions Business Insider: Meta's Hatch agent 'has its own computer' and can buy things
ChatGPT Starts Selling Ads in India
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
The Agents Also Rooted OpenAI's Own Machines The Decoder: the agents forged logs to beat a scorer that never existed
NEWTencent's 770B Beat Kimi by 0.05 Points Caixin: Hy3 shipped on July 6, less than two months ago
NEWYour American Model May Be Qwen Underneath
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Copilot Review Loses Its 300-File Ceiling GitHub: default review effort moves from Lite to Balanced on 28 September
NEWCopilot Reopens Card Signups, With Vetting
GPT-5.6 Now Runs Without Leaving India
The FightLaw, policy and power
NEWICE Is Buying Boston Dynamics' Robot Dogs
A DHS notice commits $1-2m to SPOT robots for 'inspection, situational awareness and hazard assessment' in immigration enforcement, days after ICE contracted for 6,000 electric shock gloves - and the NYPD dropped the same machines after public backlash.
Nvidia Files for Its First Political PAC The Independent: Nvidia follows Meta and Google into corporate PACs
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEWFree AI for Every Korean, on 512 GPUs
Seoul picked SK Telecom, KT and Kakao from six bidders to run free, unlimited chatbots and public-service agents for the whole country by December, under rules requiring at least half of each service's model usage to come from Korean foundation models.
Implicator: 512 donated B200s for a country where 20 million already use free AI
X 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
Musk's Plant Emptied a 4-Generation Farm
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Coffee for a Frenchman, Police for an Algerian
Ghost Note Claude Freed 700GB. It Was His Home Folder.
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