The Kazakhstan AI deal is signed. Kazakhstan has agreed a set of accords with Firebird, a US startup backed by Nvidia, to build artificial-intelligence data centres that could draw as much as $10bn in investment, as the oil-and-gas producer tries to re…
The US government has ordered Anthropic to bar foreign nationals from its two most capable AI models, and rather than try to enforce a nationality rule selectively across a shared cloud service, the company switched them off for everyone. Anthropic dis…
Britain is expected to set out restrictions on how children under 16 use social media, in a package that could ban access to the main platforms and curb features judged too addictive for young users, according to reporting on the government’s plans. Pr…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday that the US export ban that forced Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 demonstrates the danger of depending on a small number of powerful AI models. Speaking to reporters during a visit to Ireland…
When the US government ordered Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on 12 June, the export control directive was aimed at restricting foreign nationals from accessing America’s most capable AI. In India, Anthropic’s second-largest market, it lan…
Grassroots opposition to data center construction in the United States has reached a scale that is starting to reshape where and whether the AI industry can build. A new report from Data Center Watch, a tracker maintained by AI research firm 10a Labs, …
NHS England is giving more than 505,000 clinicians and support staff access to Microsoft 365 Copilot in what will be the largest AI deployment in healthcare globally. The rollout follows a pilot across 90 NHS organisations in which 30,000 workers used …
A coalition of 42 state attorneys general has opened a sweeping investigation into OpenAI, first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. New York’s attorney general served the company with a subpoena on Friday demanding documents on advertisin…
The US government has ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its two most capable AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, in what appears to be the first time Washington has forced a commercial AI product offline. The directive, which Anthropic says it receiv…
Eighty residents of towns near SpaceX’s Starbase facility in South Texas have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company’s constant rocket launches are physically destroying their homes. The lawsuit accuses SpaceX of negligence, gross negli…