Government policy, legislation, and regulatory frameworks shaping the global AI industry.
AI Weekly Issue #504: America blocked its best AI. China just raised $7.4 billion.
Washington's move to restrict foreign access to Anthropic's Claude models backfired within days. The export control, designed to preserve America's AI…
Pramaana Labs raises $27M seed round from Khosla Ventures to bring formal verification to AI
Pramaana Labs secured $27 million in seed funding from Khosla Ventures to develop formal verification tools for AI systems. The startup targets high-s…
Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests
Anthropic's public disputes with the Trump administration appear to be strengthening its market position rather than weakening it. Data from corporate…
The Tidy House
DJ Patil, former U.S. Chief Data Scientist under the Obama administration, has embarked on an extensive listening tour across American universities an…
The US government may be asking Anthropic the impossible by demanding unhackable LLMs
The Trump administration is clashing with Anthropic over cybersecurity requirements that security experts view as technically unfeasible. Government o…
UK to ban social media for kids under 16, may impose overnight curfews
The UK government plans to ban social media access for children under 16 and may enforce overnight curfews on internet use, according to reports from …
All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House
Anthropic faces escalating government pressure after the White House issued an order on June 12 restricting foreign access to its newly released model…
Big Tech’s desperate last push at AI regulation
Tech companies are mounting an aggressive final lobbying campaign to secure federal AI preemption legislation before Congress adjourns. The strategy a…
Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models
Dozens of cybersecurity experts have petitioned the White House to lift export restrictions on Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models, warning that the c…
China may have accessed Mythos
The White House imposed export restrictions on Anthropic's advanced AI models after intelligence suggested a Chinese-linked group accessed Mythos, acc…
Amazon and five other companies reportedly triggered the government crackdown on Anthropic's Fable model
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and executives from five other tech companies warned the Trump administration about security vulnerabilities in Anthropic's Fabl…
Meta reportedly moves to unwind $2B Manus deal after Beijing’s demand
Meta is unwinding its $2 billion acquisition of Manus, the Chinese AI startup, following pressure from Beijing authorities who demanded the deal be re…
OpenAI faces investigation from state attorneys general
OpenAI faces a multi-state investigation into its business practices, with attorneys general examining the company's advertising policies, data handli…
Anthropic cuts off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access following government order
Anthropic has blocked global access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models following a government order issued Friday evening. The directive cited nationa…