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The Pentagon Onboarded 1.7 Million People. That Is Not Usage.

Three million personnel, 1.7 million accounts provisioned. The figure measures how much work the department did, not how much anyone uses what it built.

1 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Japan's Banks Waited Eleven Weeks for a Capability Anyone Can Download

A US directive covered foreign nationals, so Anthropic switched the models off for everyone, including Americans. That is what export control on a hosted API looks like when the border does not exist.

31 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Meta Promised Frontier Weights Three Weeks Ago. The Repository Is Still Empty.

Zuckerberg promised the weights for Meta's frontier model three weeks ago, with no date attached. We queried the repository: four items, all of them the smaller model, and no Spark of any version.

31 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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The EU AI Act's High-Risk Rules Were Delayed. Its Transparency Rules Started on Time.

The August headlines said the AI Act had been delayed. What was delayed is the high-risk tier; the general-purpose model and transparency obligations that took effect on 2 August 2025 were left exactly where they were.

30 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Sony and Warner Are Suing Anthropic, and Naming Its Founders Personally

The complaint names Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann as individual defendants, which is a high bar and a deliberate choice. The multi-billion figure is statutory maxima multiplied out, not a sum demanded. Nothing is proved.

30 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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The Anonymous Model Called Ox Alpha Was Z.ai's, and Its Weights Are MIT

An unattributed model ran free on OpenRouter and OpenCode for six days before researchers fingerprinted it and the lab confirmed. 320 billion parameters total, 18 billion active, and a licence with no field-of-use restriction.

29 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Nvidia's Reported $12.9bn Hugging Face Deal Is Unconfirmed

Reports put the price at US$12.9bn and several outlets have run it as settled. Neither company has confirmed anything, and Nvidia has sat on Hugging Face's cap table since the 2023 round it helped fund.

29 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Saudi Arabia's Arabic Model Reaches Microsoft's Developer Platform, Not Yet Its Office Suite

ALLAM lands on Foundry now; the Microsoft 365 Copilot integration is stated as planned, with no date. Sovereign AI programmes can fund the training. Distribution is the part they cannot build.

27 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Moonshot Wants 30% of What the Clouds Earn From Its Model

The usual arrangement runs the other way: the platform takes a cut from the model. Asking Microsoft, Amazon and Google to pay a share of their own revenue is a claim about which layer is scarce.

27 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Amazon Is Closing Mechanical Turk, and AI Did Not Replace Those Workers

The marketplace Bezos called artificial artificial intelligence closes on 30 September. Demand for human judgement grew; it just moved to people with credentials, who cost more than three cents a task.

27 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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