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The Department of War added ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government to GenAI.mil on Monday, four days after a federal judge ruled the Pentagon's exclusion of Anthropic illegal — Claude still isn't on the portal.
Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over tens of thousands of songs
Thirty-five music publishers led by Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell filed in the Northern District of California on Aug 28, naming Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann as defendants.
Apple accuses OpenAI of destroying evidence in the trade-secrets case
Apple filed a new motion alleging OpenAI is actively destroying evidence in the hardware-chief trade-secrets suit, materially escalating what is already the highest-profile AI IP case in federal court.
Bank of England governor puts AI concentration on the G20 stability agenda
Andrew Bailey wrote G20 finance ministers meeting in North Carolina, warning as Financial Stability Board chair that AI-hyperscaler cross-investment could amplify a disorderly correction.
California sends the first workplace AI emotion-surveillance ban to Newsom
AB 1883 cleared the Assembly Aug 30 and sits on the governor's desk; it bars employers from using AI to infer emotional state or collect neural data.
A federal judge just told the White House it can't blacklist an AI lab for disagreeing with it
A federal judge ruled Thursday night that the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk designation of Anthropic was unconstitutional retaliation for the lab's public AI-safety positions.
Anthropic opens a research preview to let Claude drive lab robots
Anthropic unveiled a Model Hardware Standard letting Claude agents discover and operate physical lab and manufacturing instruments through a shared driver layer.
EU AI Act enforcement goes live for general-purpose models
The EU AI Act's binding obligations for general-purpose model providers took effect today, the first hard-enforcement milestone in the bloc's staged rollout.
Nvidia pays $6B to license Poolside's code-model factory and hire its engineers
Nvidia agreed last week to pay $6B for a non-exclusive license to Poolside's Model Factory software, plus $1B invested at a $12B valuation, with offers to 109 Poolside engineers.
Pimco calls the AI debt binge "too much, too fast"
The world's largest bond manager publicly framed AI-linked debt issuance as a macro credit risk driving bond yields higher, per Bloomberg.
Reuters reconstructs how Zuckerberg's AI-for-headcount plan came apart
A special report published Wednesday on how the most-quoted "AI replaces engineers" pledge in tech actually ran when Meta tried to execute it.
SoftBank sounds banks on a $20B bond to refinance its OpenAI bet
Bloomberg reported Wednesday that SoftBank is talking to banks about a $10–20B bond that could price as early as September.