Report: Google ditches its objection to defense work, pitches Gemini to Pentagon
In 2018, employees protested against the company’s tech being used for the US military’s Project Maven — a drone targeting program — reminding the company of its “don’t be evil” motto. After the cont...
Maine is the first to pass a statewide ban on large data centers
The tide is turning against big AI data centers. In addition to many cities and towns that have passed outright bans on data centers, lawmakers in at least 11 states have introduced legislation to pau...
Report: US Treasury wants to get a look at Anthropic’s Mythos model
Anthropic’s relationship with the US government is complicated — and the Treasury Department is reportedly looking to make it even more so. The Pentagon has officially deemed the startup a national se...
OpenAI’s plan for an AGI world: AI for all and a 4-day workweek
OpenAI has published a policy paper titled “Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age,” which lays out a list of proposals that would radically shift how our economy works. It also calls for mitigati...
British government weighs removing Palantir from NHS data systems
Officials in the British government are exploring ways to eject defense, intelligence, and AI software company from data systems used by the National Health Service, the government-funded health syst...
Judge blocks Pentagon’s move to blacklist Anthropic
A federal judge in Northern California has granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Pentagon from labeling Anthropic as a national security supply chain risk. The ruling temporarily prevents the ...
Sen. Sanders and Rep. Ocasio-Cortez introduce data center moratorium bill
Tapping into the growing public pushback surrounding the data center construction boom, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, have announced The AI Data Center Moratoriu...
FCC bans foreign-made routers over national security concerns
One of the most boring and ubiquitous pieces of modern consumer technology is suddenly in the crosshairs of the Trump administration as an urgent national security threat: that dusty internet router o...
White House releases AI legislative framework
The White House has released its policy wish list for AI legislation — and what it wants excluded. Still, the odds of any actual AI regulation getting passed in Congress right now are very slim. The “...
NHTSA expands Tesla FSD probe, focusing on whether system can detect when cameras can’t see the road
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it is expanding its probe into Full Self-Driving system into an engineering analysis covering about 3.2 million Teslas, a majority of its vehic...
Anthropic sues the US government
In response to the Pentagon’s declaration that Anthropic’s Claude is a national security supply chain risk , the AI company has filed suit in Northern California federal court. Anthropic is asking the...
Anthropic will sue the Pentagon over supply chain risk designation, Amodei says
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a public post that the company will sue the Pentagon after receiving a letter from the Department of Defense officially designating Anthropic as “a supply chain risk...
Nvidia falls on report of US government drafting regulations restricting AI chip exports
According to Bloomberg, the Trump administration will propose regulations that would require US government approval for AI chip shipments worldwide, expanding existing export controls that currently a...
Report: Amodei told staff that Anthropic was targeted for lack of “dictator-style praise” for Trump
More details are leaking out from Anthropic about how CEO Dario Amodei explained the company’s dramatic schism with the Pentagon over its AI terms of use. The Information shared details from a leaked ...
Palantir’s ties to Anthropic reportedly under strain amid Pentagon spat
may have to cut ties with AI lab Anthropic after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared his department would restrict military contractors from using Anthropic’s technology , according to a story by ...
OpenAI’s Altman: Our rushed deal with the Pentagon “looked opportunistic and sloppy”
The fallout from Anthropic’s messy breakup with the US government, and OpenAI’s hasty deal to take its place, is still settling across the AI industry. Last night, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared an inte...
Claude is still top of the US free App Store, as users defect from ChatGPT following Pentagon deal
Last Friday, President Trump directed federal agencies to cease using all Anthropic products owing to its very messy , very public dispute with the Department of War ( née Defense ), which had centere...
Trump says he has ordered all federal agencies to cease use of Anthropic’s products
President Trump said he has ordered all federal agencies to “IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology” as the AI startup and the federal government disagree over safety guardrails. Anthropi...
Hims discloses SEC probe as its legal woes mount
said that it is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, adding another legal challenge for the telehealth company. The SEC requested that it preserve records related to its comp...
Report: Anthropic CEO Amodei meeting with Hegseth at the Pentagon as tensions mount
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has been summoned to meet with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon on Tuesday, according to a report from Axios. Tensions are running high between the Trump admin...