Judge Donovan Frank refused xAI's restraining order against Minnesota's nudification-app ban, citing a three-month filing delay. The law carries $500,000 per image.
A civil-society coalition wants EU browsers to send a machine-readable privacy signal instead of showing consent pop-ups. The Council deleted the provision on June 18.
Samuel Tunick's Pixel erased itself during a CBP inspection at Atlanta's airport. Prosecutors call that destroying property to prevent its seizure.
Brussels fined Google 890 million euros, its first Digital Markets Act penalty, for self-preferencing in Search and blocking app developers from steering users to cheaper deals.
A federal judge gave final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement for pirating books to train Claude, the largest copyright recovery on record.
Oracle's headcount fell to about 141,000 as of May 31, down roughly 21,000 in a year. Its FY2026 10-K ties the cuts to AI while capex hit $55.7 billion.
The Commerce Department cleared Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, ending an 18-day export-control freeze. Anthropic redeploys Fable 5 globally on Wednesday with tighter safeguards.
The Trump administration asked OpenAI to limit GPT-5.6 to trusted partners, with the government vetting access customer by customer. Here's what that gatekeeping means.
The EU signed the US-led 'Pax Silica' pact to secure AI and chip supply chains. Here's what it commits members to, who's in, and how it ties to export controls.
Mandatory age-verification laws are turning the open internet into a checkpoint. Here's what the UK, EU, and US states actually require, and why the methods leak.
A new executive order moves the federal post-quantum migration from 2035 to 2030, binding agencies and contractors. Here's what changed and what to do now.
Microsoft quietly extended Windows 10 consumer security updates to October 2027. Here's who qualifies, what the free and $30 options cover, and why the deadline keeps moving.
Gergely Orosz reports Meta moved a big share of its engineers into an AI data-labeling org. TechCrunch and Wired describe a revolt. Here is what is confirmed.
A McHenry County police chief faces felony charges for using Flock's plate-reader network to track people he knew. The case is fueling a push for warrants.
The Commerce Department paused adding DeepSeek and 100+ Chinese firms to the Entity List. Here's what the export-control blacklist does and why DeepSeek was spared.
A Commerce Department export directive forced Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users, days after opening Fable 5 to the public.
Taiwan is considering US-aligned export controls that would treat unauthorized AI chip shipments to any Chinese customer as a crime. It's under discussion, not law yet.
Mythos 5 is the same model as Fable 5 with cyber safeguards lifted, going to Project Glasswing defenders and, Anthropic says, ~150 orgs across 15+ countries.