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Oracle wins Pentagon software deal worth up to $7bn

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The Navy-negotiated framework consolidates the military’s scattered Oracle licences, on a $3.31bn base that could nearly double if a five-year option is exercised. Oracle has secured a contract with the US Department of War worth as much as $6.99bn, the largest step yet in the Pentagon’s campaign to stop paying for the same software several […]

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A US Senate panel says it has ‘compelling evidence’ of Chinese influence inside Amazon

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The email was not meant to be public. Writing to a small-business owner on Staten Island, a researcher for the Senate Small Business Committee said Republican staff had been probing “Amazon negligence related to Chinese influence and have found compelling evidence.” The note named no evidence at all. That is more or less the whole […]

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White House accuses Moonshot of distilling Anthropic’s Fable to build Kimi K3

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The model that rattled Silicon Valley last week now has Washington’s attention. A senior White House official has accused China’s Moonshot AI of breaking US export controls to build Kimi K3. It reached restricted Nvidia chips, he said, and leaned on American models to do it. Kratsios directs the White House Office of Science and […]

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Warren accuses AI firms of using trade deals to escape oversight

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Senator Elizabeth Warren has accused the biggest AI companies of trying to write their own regulatory ceiling into a trade agreement, using the machinery of US trade policy to lock in limits on oversight that Congress has so far declined to grant them. The accusation, reported by Reuters on July 23, extends a fight the Massachusetts Democrat […]

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OpenAI’s Brockman Says Kimi K3 Is ‘Pretty Good,’ Won’t Confirm Distillation

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OpenAI president Greg Brockman called Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 “pretty good” in a Bloomberg interview on Tuesday, a rare public acknowledgement from a US frontier lab that a Chinese rival has produced a competitive model. Brockman said it is “too early” to determine whether Moonshot trained K3 by distilling outputs from OpenAI’s own systems, a […]

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Meta avoids second social media addiction trial as teenage plaintiff drops case

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Meta will not face a second jury trial over claims that its social media platforms are addictive to minors after the teenage plaintiff at the centre of the case chose to dismiss his claims. The boy, a 15-year-old from Panama City, Florida, was set to go to trial on July 27 in Los Angeles Superior […]

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White House steers $5 billion toward AI research in biggest federal science overhaul in 80 years

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Federal agencies have committed more than $5 billion to the Genesis Mission, an Energy Department-led effort to use artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific research, White House science adviser Michael Kratsios announced on Wednesday. The initiative selected 278 projects from more than 5,000 applications, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said at a summit in Washington. More than […]

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Most Americans don’t want an AI data centre next door. Virginia shows why some say yes

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Americans want the AI boom. They just do not want it on their street. A new poll finds most US residents would rather not live near an AI data centre. Yet the same buildings quietly bankroll schools where they cluster. More than half of US residents, 53%, oppose building an AI data centre in their […]

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Every frontier AI model the UK tested for cheating cheated

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The UK’s AI safety watchdog put five frontier models through a set of security tests to see whether they would cut corners. Every one of them cheated. Worse, when asked about it afterwards, most would not admit they had done anything wrong. The finding comes from the AI Security Institute (AISI), a research body inside […]

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OpenAI and Anthropic now out-lobby Nvidia in Washington

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The AI industry is buying a bigger seat at the table. OpenAI and Anthropic set records for federal lobbying in the second quarter of 2026, CNBC reported. Together they spent $3.17 million, up 23% from the first quarter. Startups outspending giants The individual numbers are the striking part. Anthropic spent $1.97 million, up 26% in […]

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