Nvidia's Counsel Emailed the Agents. Commerce Stood Down.

The New York Times says Commerce's Megaspeed smuggling investigation stopped and moved to the Justice Department after Nvidia's general counsel told the agents on the case that their own under secretary had cleared the contact - and Bloomberg puts $787MN of banned GB300s in Malaysia after the cut-off.

The RaceCompanies, models and money

Seven Founders Sell $1.75BN, Keep 51% of Votes

The updated S-1 has each of Anthropic's seven co-founders selling 3,378,378 shares - about $250MN apiece at the midpoint of the $70-to-$78 range - while one Class F supervoting share each leaves them holding 51.1% of the votes after the sale.

Claude Joins the Meeting. Microsoft Slips.

Anthropic launched Claude Sheets and Whiteboards in beta and Claude Data generally, and put Claude into Google Meet as a visible participant that drafts the plan while people are still talking - eight days before its IPO prices.

Revenue Up 168%. Loss Up Sixfold.

Google's Cyber-First Model Opens to Everyone

SoftBank Loses $7BN on Turbines It Prebought

Brands Get a Blue Check and a Sales Agent

Oracle Drops a $7BN Tencent Compute Lease

The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety

35,578 Grok Apps Open. 24 Were Grok's Own.

An Agent Proved Signal's Crypto Holds

The WorkbenchTools and agents

Your Teammate's Agent Takes the Handoff

Nvidia Adopts Google's Agent Sandbox

Agents Get a DNS Name You Can Verify

UK Copilot Tenants Get Claude by Default

The FightLaw, policy and power

New York opened a registration portal for frontier developers above $500MN in revenue, who must file by 1 January, publish safety frameworks and report critical incidents within 72 hours - and face a new Binghamton centre that will evaluate their models independently.

Four Labs Sign Up to a Kill Switch

The FalloutJobs, money, daily life

Rural Bills Paid for the Data Centers

He Asked ChatGPT How to Plan the Attack

ChatterOpinion, drama and noise

IGF Jurors Won't Vote for AI Games