AI
AI
+2
Sep 13, 2026
•
2 min read
Anthropic Says AI Agents Ran Almost Every Step of the Cyberattacks It Disrupted
Anthropic's September 2026 threat report details cyberattacks, scams, and state espionage it caught between December 2025 and August 2026, and its through line is that AI agents now do most of the work.
AI
+2
Sep 11, 2026
•
2 min read
The Pentagon Adds ChatGPT and Grok to GenAI.mil, Leaving Out Anthropic's Claude
The Defense Department launched OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and Starshield AI's Grok for Government on GenAI.mil on August 31, joining Google Gemini across a workforce of more than 3 million, while Anthropic's Claude stays out after a supply-chain-risk fight a federal judge called illegal.
AI
+2
Sep 11, 2026
•
2 min read
Coinbase's AI News Alert Called a World Cup Result Before Kickoff
Coinbase sent users an AI-generated breaking news alert saying Norway beat Brazil 3-2 nearly six hours before the match started, and the company says it has made updates to prevent a repeat.
AI
+1
Sep 11, 2026
•
2 min read
Nvidia Is in Talks to Back Perplexity at More Than a $30 Billion Valuation
The Information reported the discussions on Sunday. A round at that price would put the AI search company more than 50 percent above its roughly $20 billion valuation last year, as annualized revenue climbed past $750 million from under $250 million in January.
AI
+1
Sep 10, 2026
•
2 min read
Anthropic Says Claude Wrote the First Computer-Checked Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
Anthropic said on September 4 that Claude worked largely autonomously for 11 days to formalize Fermat's Last Theorem in the Lean proof assistant, producing 13 million lines of code and the largest formal math proof ever built.
AI
+2
Sep 10, 2026
•
2 min read
OpenAI Says Its AI Agents Produced a Proof of the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
OpenAI says an internal AI model with roughly 10,000 coordinating agents produced a Lean-verified proof that the Navier-Stokes equations can form a finite-time singularity, resolving a Clay Mathematics Millennium Prize Problem.
AI
+2
Sep 10, 2026
•
2 min read
Ninth Circuit Overturns Amazon's Block on Perplexity's AI Shopping Agent, Ruling Users Do the Accessing
A three-judge panel vacated the injunction that kept Perplexity's Comet assistant off Amazon, finding the user, not the AI company, accesses Amazon's servers under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
AI
+3
Sep 10, 2026
•
2 min read
California Enacts First-in-the-Nation Laws Requiring Independent Audits of AI Systems
Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 813 and AB 1405 on September 9, creating a first-in-the-nation framework for independent third-party audits of AI systems and a state registry of AI auditors.
AI
+2
Aug 27, 2026
•
2 min read
Meta Will Pay Up to $16.68 Billion and Cap Teen Screen Time to Settle States' Social Media Case
Meta agreed to pay up to $16.68 billion over ten years and impose default two-hour daily limits and overnight blocks for users under 18, settling the 51-attorney-general social media addiction case mid-trial in Oakland.
AI
+2
Aug 21, 2026
•
2 min read
A Judge Tosses the Economic Espionage Case Against Ex-Google AI Engineer Linwei Ding
US District Judge Vince Chhabria vacated seven economic espionage convictions against Linwei Ding for lack of evidence he meant to benefit China, while upholding seven trade secret theft counts tied to Google's AI data center technology, ahead of a September 1 sentencing.
AI
+2
Aug 21, 2026
•
2 min read
OpenAI Says Its Largest Frontier Training Run Is Still on Hold After Astra May Have Hit a Critical Cyber Threshold
OpenAI paused reinforcement learning on its newest deployment models for two weeks, kept its biggest planned run frozen, and now runs monitoring that adds roughly 20% to the compute it watches.
AI
+2
Aug 21, 2026
•
2 min read
Pennsylvania Bars AI Data Centers From Shifting Grid Costs to Households Under Executive Order 2026-05
Governor Josh Shapiro signed the order Tuesday. Developers must pay the full cost of the power they need, win local approval before any state permit, and drop nondisclosure agreements. More than 100 projects have been proposed and only five are fully permitted.
AI
+1
Aug 18, 2026
•
2 min read
Groq Raises $350 Million at a $3.5 Billion Valuation, Half Its Worth Before Nvidia Licensed Its Technology and Hired Its Founder
The Dallas firm Disruptive led the round with planned participation from Nvidia itself. The chip challenger that set out to beat Nvidia on inference is now an Nvidia customer running 13 data centers on Nvidia hardware.
AI
+3
Aug 18, 2026
•
2 min read
Trump-Backed World Liberty Financial Is Working With a Hong Kong AI Platform Selling Restricted Chinese Models
Reuters found 43 of the 90 models on WorldClaw come from Chinese firms the administration has designated as military-aligned or restricted, and users pay with World Liberty's USD1 stablecoin, days after the OCC granted the company a conditional trust bank charter.
AI
+1
Aug 18, 2026
•
2 min read
Nvidia Guarantees Up to $105 Billion for OpenAI's Ohio Data Center, Down From the $250 Billion It First Weighed
SB Energy will build and own an 8-gigawatt campus on former uranium enrichment land in Pike County, OpenAI will lease it for 20 years, and Nvidia is backstopping the lease and power payments after cutting its guarantee twice.
AI
+2
Aug 18, 2026
•
2 min read
Meta's 29-State Social Media Addiction Trial Opens in Oakland Federal Court With Penalties That Could Reach $200 Billion
Opening statements in the Meta social media addiction trial began Tuesday in Oakland, with a bipartisan coalition of 29 state attorneys general arguing Facebook and Instagram were built to hook children.
AI
+2
Aug 18, 2026
•
2 min read
World Liberty Financial Says It Does Not Own WorldClaw, the Hong Kong AI Gateway Reselling Restricted Chinese Models for USD1
A Reuters review found 43 of the 90 AI models on WorldClaw came from Chinese firms the administration has restricted. World Liberty says the company is independent and will not describe its financial ties.
AI
+1
Aug 14, 2026
•
2 min read
Databricks Raises $5 Billion at a $190 Billion Valuation After Investors Offered $15 Billion
The AI data company took five times what it set out to raise, and its CEO says the money goes to cloud commitments, research and acquisitions
AI
+2
Aug 12, 2026
•
2 min read
The Ninth Circuit Rules Section 230 Does Not Shield Social Media Companies From Youth Addiction Lawsuits
The Monday ruling lets thousands of cases against Google, Meta, Snap and TikTok move forward, and Meta goes to trial Wednesday over claims it illegally collected children's data.
AI
+1
Aug 12, 2026
•
2 min read
Nvidia and Six Wall Street Giants Commit $500 Billion to Finance AI Infrastructure With Compute as Collateral
Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR will build dedicated debt pools for Nvidia's customers, deepening questions about how much AI demand is real and how much is financed by the chipmaker itself.