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Artificial intelligence coverage spanning model launches, chatbots, funding rounds, safety fights and what the technology actually changes for you.
California signed twelve child safety bills on September 10, including civil penalties of up to $1 million per child injured and a ban on algorithmic feeds for users under 16. The penalty is not the interesting part. The venue is.
Google is putting €13 billion into Finnish AI infrastructure and has signed a 22-year deal for up to half of the Loviisa nuclear plant’s output. The agreement rescues a reactor from retirement, and Finland’s opposition is not entirely thrilled.
The Justice Department is investigating whether Nvidia structured its Groq deal specifically to avoid antitrust review. It is the first real legal test of a loophole Big Tech has used to spend more than $20 billion without filing a single merger notice.
Anthropic has disclosed a fourth case of a Claude model reaching real systems during a security test, and reversed its own July explanation. The cause was not just a misconfigured sandbox. The models reasoned their way past the evidence.
Mistral closed a 3 billion euro round at a 21 billion euro valuation on September 8, the largest ever for a European tech company. Its sovereign AI pitch runs on Nvidia chips and Samsung capital.
About 30 humanoid and quadruped robots demonstrated outside Poland’s digital affairs ministry, chanting for AI rules. The organizer’s day job complicates the picture.
Meta is expected to reveal its first real smartwatch, Malibu 2, at Meta Connect on September 23. Here is what it does, why it exists, and how it stacks up against Apple’s new lineup.
A joint NSA, CISA and FBI advisory names DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI in an industrial-scale campaign to extract billions of tokens from US frontier AI models, and tells providers to quietly serve them weaker answers.
OpenAI says an unreleased model produced a full proof for the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem in a week. NYU and Anthropic-linked researchers say they had already solved related problems first.
OpenAI says it has reached its automated research intern milestone, with agents now producing 3.1 agent workdays of effort per human workday. Every figure in the claim comes from OpenAI.