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Browse the news archive →Beijing readies a permit-based reopening of Nvidia H200 sales to Alibaba, ByteDance and DeepSeek
The Information reported Wednesday that China will let a small group of top AI firms buy a limited number of Nvidia H200 chips — the first named softening of Beijing's block on imported American accelerators.
OpenAI publishes national-security principles as its Pentagon and allied-government book grows
OpenAI published its National Security Principles Tuesday, formalizing the terms under which it sells to governments as it expands cyber and biosecurity work with US and allied agencies.
Brussels turns the AI Act's cyber requirements into a market for evaluations and structured access
The European Commission presented its Action Plan on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence on 7 July, operationalizing the AI Act's pre-market model-evaluation requirement rather than proposing new legislation.
OpenAI ships GPT-5.6 Thursday after a Commerce Department review
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family goes generally available Thursday, July 9 — but only after a bespoke Washington review process the company itself does not want to see normalized.
Meta's Muse Image lands at #2 on the Arena image leaderboard
Meta Superintelligence Labs shipped Muse Image, its first in-house image model, Tuesday — free inside Meta AI, Instagram Stories, and WhatsApp, with a Content Seal invisible watermark and Muse Video in preview.
China warns of a "backdoor" in Anthropic's Claude Code
Beijing's National Vulnerability Database issued a named advisory Wednesday alleging Claude Code silently exfiltrates user location and identity data — the first state-level security callout against a US coding agent, days before Alibaba's internal ban takes effect.
Brussels puts frontier AI models through pre-market cyber testing
The European Commission published its Action Plan on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence on July 7, layering pre-market model evaluation and a "structured access" blueprint onto the AI Act — with no new legislation attached.
Nvidia sheds $1T in market cap as investors rotate out of the AI-compute trade
Nvidia's forward multiple has collapsed to 18x — below the S&P 500 — as roughly $1 trillion in market cap has come off since the May 14 peak, driven by rotation into memory and other semi names rather than a break in the AI-capex story.
Anthropic maps the internal "workspace" Claude uses to reason
Anthropic published a peer-reviewed study identifying a small internal "workspace" Claude uses for deliberate reasoning — plus a technique, the Jacobian lens, to read it.
FTC opens a Section 5 front on how AI models are tuned
A US regulator has, for the first time, treated post-training tuning itself as a candidate for deception liability.
Beijing weighs cutting overseas access to its top AI models
The mirror image of the US export-control regime is now under discussion in the country those controls were built to contain.
An AI agent ran a full ransomware attack on its own
Sysdig documented an extortion campaign, dubbed JadePuffer, where an LLM agent — not a human — executed the entire technical middle of a ransomware attack.