Abbott Halts Flock Money; 90 Cities Quit in August

Abbott ordered every Texas agency to stop funding Flock's AI plate readers on Thursday night, hours before the Tribune published how a $1 car-insurance fee built 3,200 of them - while 90 localities cancelled in August alone, four times July's rate.

The RaceCompanies, models and money

Google and Microsoft Walked on the Nscale Deal

NEWCodex Will Work Until Put to Sleep

The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety

NEWChinese Lab Will Vet Any Host Over $10B

Z.ai dropped the MIT licence for GLM-5.3's weights: anyone billing over $10bn in twelve months must pass Z.ai's own security review before hosting it - a Chinese lab writing an approval gate for American hyperscalers, with no acceptable-use clause behind it.

Gemini Ran the Furnace and Wrote the Paper

Anthropic's AI Beat Its Own Alignment Team

Your American Model May Be Qwen Underneath

The WorkbenchTools and agents

Copilot Reopens Card Signups, With Vetting

NEWClaude Code Hijacked by 'Summarize This Site'

NEWGemini Now Labels Your Drive for DLP

The FightLaw, policy and power

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.

NEWNSA: 'We Want Access to All the Models'

Rule Would Cut China Off From Rented AI Servers

ICE Is Buying Boston Dynamics' Robot Dogs

The FalloutJobs, money, daily life

NEWThe CIA Wrote Police Bulletins With GPT-4.1

Documents obtained by Reason show the CIA's Open Source Enterprise used GPT-4.1 to pick, translate and summarise foreign news into World Cup security reports, then routed them to local police via a DHS fusion center; officers validated the model only at setup.

Free AI for Every Korean, on 512 GPUs

$1M to the PAC, Then Lombardo's Endorsement

Nurses Picket Palantir in Eight Cities

ChatterOpinion, drama and noise

Trump Posts an AI Dolly Parton at His Arm