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People Inc. CEO accuses Google of abusing its market power with web crawling

Block the AI crawler and you might lose your search traffic too.

Can the Cold War Teach Us How to Slow Down AI?

During the depths of the Cold War, a macabre logic caused the U.S. and Soviet Union to become locked in an arms race, ultimately amassing enough nuclear weapons to end civilization many times over.

Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America's broadband

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To keep on top of AI, shift from minimising risk to managing it

EARLIER THIS month, Anthropic released Fable 5, a public version of the more powerful Mythos antificial-intelligence model it had previously withheld. Within days, the American government moved to restrict access by foreign nationals, citing national-security concerns. Anthropic argues that the model’s features were known previously, the risks are being overstated and the response is disproportionate; but since the company is unable to comply with the demand for selective access, it has suspended access for all users.

Coherent & NVIDIA: Powering the AI Factories of the Future

Coherent, driven on by NVIDIA's US$2bn investment in the company, is scaling up light-speed semiconductor manufacturing at its Texas plant

Claude Code creator says companies are right to focus on AI's ROI

Boris Cherny, a top Anthropic employee, said companies should ensure employees at all levels can surface AI gains — and then control costs.

The Oversight Board is demanding Meta take down an “AI-generated sexualized video” of a woman on Instagram.

Meta said it didn’t have indicators of the post being nonconsensual, but in addition to arguing that was incorrect, the board says Meta should determine that “AI-generated impersonation is non-consensual by default.”

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Nobel Laureate John Jumper Leaves DeepMind for Anthropic

Wiping US$225bn off the market, Vice President of Google Deepmind, John Jumper who won the Nobel Prize for creating AlphaFold is set to join Anthropic

A top Silicon Valley law firm wants startup founders to stop asking chatbots to do legal work and use this instead

Law firm Cooley has partnered with Legora to launch an exclusive online portal for handling routine startup legal work.

How SK Hynix Overtook Samsung in AI Chipmaking Stakes

SK Hynix has overtaken Samsung as the world's most valuable memory chipmaker, driven by specialised AI components that are reshaping industry economics

Meta pauses employee tracking tool after internal leak.

Screenshots seen by Business Insider showed that data from Meta’s controversial AI training program — including employees’ private conversations, performance data, and transcriptions — could be accessed across the entire company. In a statement to the publication, Meta said: