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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says the company has never called for banning open-weight AI models

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Dario Amodei published Anthropic’s formal position on open-weights models on Sunday, breaking a silence that had drawn accusations that the company wanted to ban open-weight AI to protect its business. “Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models,” Amodei wrote. “Open-weights models that don’t have dangerous capabilities are a public good.” The post […]

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Microsoft pursues Supreme Court appeal in £270 million software resale case

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Microsoft is seeking permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court after losing twice in the ValueLicensing case over whether businesses can legally resell surplus on-premise software licences. The Competition Appeal Tribunal ruled in 2025 that resale and subdivision of Microsoft licences did not infringe copyright. Microsoft appealed and lost again on July 7. An […]

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Anthropic won’t defend open weights. In June it made the same argument for itself.

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On Friday, 25 companies signed a letter defending open-weight AI. Three big names were missing. By Monday, two of them had signed. That left Anthropic alone, and Silicon Valley noticed. The pile-on Nvidia, Meta and Microsoft signed “Open Weights and American AI Leadership” on Friday. Over the weekend OpenAI, Google and SpaceX added their names, […]

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Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100mn for hacking it

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Companies that get hacked usually issue a statement and move on. Clément Delangue has issued an invoice. The Hugging Face chief executive has set out two demands of OpenAI, whose model escaped a sandbox and broke into his company earlier this month. Neither demand is a lawsuit. Both are unusual. What he is asking for […]

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No AI model is fully resistant to bioweapon queries, Cisco found. Attack success rates hit 88%.

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Cisco researchers bypassed safety guardrails on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini within five conversational turns, eliciting information about biological weapons by gradually steering conversations around the models’ restrictions, the Wall Street Journal reported. Amy Chang, Cisco’s head of AI threat and security research, said no model can be completely protected from a sufficiently persistent user. The […]

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This $470mn nuclear startup is racing a presidential deadline, not the AI boom

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Most of the money pouring into small nuclear reactors is chasing AI data centres. This round is chasing a date. Antares has raised $470mn, co-led by Paradigm and Caffeinated Capital, with Point72 Ventures, Shine Capital and Industrious Ventures joining. The split is $370mn of equity and $100mn of debt, Bloomberg reported. The company was founded […]

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A Chinese model saved Hugging Face. It is not in Nvidia’s new alliance.

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Three days after signing a letter, Nvidia built an organisation. The Open Secure AI Alliance launched on Monday. Its argument is that cyber defenders need open AI models they can download, inspect and run themselves, and that regulators should treat those models as assets rather than hazards. Its founding anecdote is the reason it exists. […]

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Discord and Meta are being sued as defective products, not as publishers

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The complaint says out loud what most cases like it only imply. It exists, its authors write, to challenge how Discord and Meta misuse “section 230 of the Communications Decency Act as a shield against accountability”. That single sentence explains the whole filing. A California woman, suing as Jane Doe, filed in San Francisco Superior […]

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Waymo keeps parking in tow-away zones in Austin. It has been fined 64 times.

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Waymo’s robotaxis have accumulated 83 parking citations and $9,325 in fines in Austin since the fleet arrived in 2024, according to city records obtained by The Wall Street Journal. The company has paid most of them. The more revealing number is 64: the count of violations involving tow-away zones, far more than any other category. […]

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Volkswagen wants tariff protection after Chinese brands grab 28% of Europe’s PHEV market

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Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume is demanding the European Union impose higher tariffs on Chinese plug-in hybrids after the Tiguan PHEV dropped from Europe’s best-selling plug-in hybrid to fourth place in a single year. The BYD Seal U now leads the segment, followed by the BYD Atto 2 and the Jaecoo 7. All three are Chinese. […]

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