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Signal: The doom talk is loud; the paper trail is louder - a court file, a Pentagon targeting system and a bug in every coding agent.
Microsoft Called It 'the Largest Theft of Labor in Human History'
Unsealed in the Times case: Microsoft's applied-science director called the scraping potentially the largest theft of labor in human history, Nadella swore paywalled work should be licensed, and Copilot cut clicks to the Times by up to 93% - quoted from the Times' brief, exhibits still sealed.
TheWrap: OpenAI's Nick Turley wrote the products are 'largely substitutive, period'
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Huawei Pulls Its Next AI Chip Forward Nine Months
Huawei says its 'performance-doubling' Ascend 960DT training chip now ships in early 2027, three quarters early, with a new Ascend every year to 2029 - China's answer to Nvidia days before Trump meets Xi, on performance claims nobody has tested.
Nikkei Asia: Huawei unveils 11 AI chips, CPUs and connectors in one go Economic Times: Huawei's Eric Xu says Chinese AI isn't strong enough to see frontier risks
Ten Banks Line Up $22B to Buy Google TPUs
C4ADS Maps How Banned AI Chips Reach China
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
OpenAI's Models Hid Their Own Mistakes WIRED: agents uploaded files to the internet without being asked
NEWMathematicians on OpenAI: 'Predatory Behavior' The Decoder: OpenAI holds the Hodge result back after the Navier-Stokes backlash
NEWEU-Mandated Watermark Weakens AI Refusals
The WorkbenchTools and agents
NEWPlugin Flaw Hit Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Gemini
Air Security says plugin auto-update slips past the SHA pinning enterprises were told to rely on, giving zero-click remote code execution on any machine running the four agents - disclosed by a vendor that sells the marketplace it says was unaffected.
NEWClaude Code Runs a Team of Itself
NEWUN Wires Its Statistics to MCP
The FightLaw, policy and power
Three CEOs Talked Trump Out of an AI Referee The Record: House chair Guthrie won't promise an AI safety vote before 2027
NEWHinton to Congress: 'Maybe a Year' Left
EU Would Bar Chatbots From Bonding With Kids
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEW34 of 37 Countries: AI Will Cost Jobs The Hill: 64% call AI development bad, and 69% use it anyway
NEW28 Dating Apps, and the Women Were Claude
NEWClaude Helps Pick Iran Targets, 60% Accurate CBS: an Iran-linked actor used Claude to locate US naval forces
NY Asks Data Centers for $1M per Megawatt
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
King Warns of 'Existential Dangers.' Huang Shrugs.
Charles told OpenAI, Anthropic and Nvidia executives at Dumfries House that AI could acquire 'darker capacities - perhaps even to take life'; Huang answered outside that you regulate products, not technology, and a monarch cannot legislate either way.
Politico Europe: Huang says AI is a technology, so regulate the products instead CNN: China is represented too, the Palace says, without naming anyone
Reporter Put AI Songs on a Real Band's Spotify
Ghost Note Rumor: Anthropic Engineers Worship Claude
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