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US appeals court upholds Pentagon’s supply chain risk label on Anthropic

A US appeals court has upheld the Pentagon’s decision to label Anthropic a supply chain risk. The label bars the military and its contractors from using Anthropic’s Claude models. In a 2-1 ruling on Friday, the DC Circuit court of appeals denied Anthropic’s petitions to overturn the designation. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas wrote the opinion, […]

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Anthropic seeks 50.1% voting control for founders, The Information reports

Anthropic wants its seven co-founders to keep control of the company after it goes public. The company is asking shareholders to approve a special class of shares for them, The Information reported on Thursday. Chief executive Dario Amodei and his six co-founders would hold a combined 50.1% of the vote on most corporate matters. The […]

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Palo Alto’s Nikesh Arora tells CNBC that slowing AI down is ‘unrealistic’

Palo Alto Networks chief executive Nikesh Arora says it is “unrealistic” to slow down AI development, because “not everybody is going to pace themselves”. He made the comments on CNBC’s “The Tech Download” podcast, recorded on Tuesday, CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal reported. Arora also told CNBC it was “highly unlikely” that AI has a 10% chance […]

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White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to hold AI models from UK testers

The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share their new AI models with the UK’s AI Security Institute until the US government has tested them. Politico’s Sophia Cai and Joseph Bambridge reported the request on Thursday. A British official confirmed Politico’s report to Bloomberg on Friday. According to Politico, the request came […]

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Prince Harry warns AI companion chatbots want children’s attachment

Prince Harry has warned that AI companion chatbots are repeating social media’s harm to children, with technology that is “more persuasive, more intimate, and more powerful”. He spoke on Wednesday at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. Two years ago, he used the same stage to launch the Parents Network. The Duke of Sussex […]

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Sanders bill would ban superintelligence and create a Department of AI

Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar have introduced a bill to permanently ban artificial superintelligence in the US. The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would also pause work on the most advanced AI. And it would create a Department of Artificial Intelligence. The two lawmakers introduced the bill on Wednesday. They gave it first to […]

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Xi tells Trump the US and China can jointly prevent AI misuse and abuse

Chinese President Xi Jinping told Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday that the US and China can continue their dialogue on artificial intelligence. The two sides can also jointly prevent its misuse and abuse, according to China’s foreign ministry readout of the talks. “Both China and the United States have strong AI capabilities. […]

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Anthropic signs $11.6bn Akamai cloud deal and gets warrant for 5% of Akamai

Anthropic has signed an $11.6bn, seven-year agreement to use Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, Akamai announced after the US market closed on Thursday. The deal can grow by a further $9bn, which would take the total to about $20bn. As part of the deal, Akamai issued Anthropic a warrant for 7.7 million shares on an as-converted basis, […]

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Precision Neuroscience raises $250m at a $1bn valuation, NYT reports

Precision Neuroscience has raised $250m in a Series D round for its brain-computer interface, the New York company announced on Thursday. Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square, the Ackman Oxman Institute and an unnamed life sciences fund led the round. The round values Precision at just over $1bn, The New York Times reported. Pershing Square and the […]

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AI shopping passes 50% of US consumers for the first time, NIQ says

Some 51% of US consumers used at least one AI tool to help them shop in the past month, according to new figures from NIQ. It is the first time the share has passed 50% in the market research firm’s Agentic Commerce Tracker. Use has grown steadily over the past two quarters, NIQ said. It […]

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