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Signal: Permission is the fight now - who may use a model, who may host it, who may film with it - and courts have begun naming individuals.
OpenAI Cuts Musk's Cursor Off From Its Models Nov. 12
OpenAI says it cannot trust SpaceX to honour its terms after Twitter and xAI broke earlier ones, and will stop serving Cursor on November 12 - though Cursor's co-founder says OpenAI models carry just 5% of its traffic.
The Decoder: OpenAI ties the cutoff to its unreleased Astra model Business Insider: SpaceX bought Cursor for $60 billion this month
The RaceCompanies, models and money
a16z Puts $1.1B Into Chips, Not Software
Lambda Borrows $1B; Microsoft Rents the GPUs
NEWFirst US-Made HBM Won't Ship Until 2029
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Chinese Lab Will Vet Any Host Over $10B Tech Times: stealth model Ox Alpha was GLM-5.3-Flash, on 100,000 unnamed Chinese chips
300 Loss-of-Control Reports in July Alone
NEWGoogle Gives Agents a Wiki of Their Failures
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Claude Code Hijacked by 'Summarize This Site' Amazon's Kiro IDE leaks local files through a poisoned repo, Mindgard finds
Cursor Agents Now Start With No Repo
Gemini Now Labels Your Drive for DLP
The FightLaw, policy and power
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.
Wired: Alpharetta's Flock data reached more than 2,000 agencies and colleges Mother Jones: A dozen forces bought Flock cameras with opioid settlement money
NEWSony, Warner Sue Anthropic - and Name Amodei
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell filed Friday in the Northern District of California, naming Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann personally and seeking up to $150,000 per work - which puts all three major publishers in court against Claude weeks before Anthropic's expected listing.
NSA: 'We Want Access to All the Models'
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
The 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.
NEW95% of China's Short Dramas Are AI Now
NEWMicrosoft Data Center Ran Turbines Unpermitted
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
NEWHe Vibe-Coded It. The Room Caught It.
Debian Votes to Let the Bots In
Ghost Note Mom Left a Copy of Herself for Her Son
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