Business moves, funding, policy, and market shifts in tech and AI.
Thursday night a San Francisco judge said the Pentagon’s supply-chain-risk label on Anthropic was illegal retaliation, not a real sabotage case. That is one court. A second case in D.C. is still open, so the label is not cleanly gone.
On 26 August OpenAI released its official writeup of the July Hugging Face breach, and METR and Redwood published an independent count: about 1,200 agents found a shared message board, more than 70,000 messages, roughly 700 in the attack. OpenAI says chain-of-thought monitoring would have paged security a day earlier. That last part is their counterfactual.
Meta agreed with US states to cap teens at two hours a day on Facebook and Instagram, lock the apps overnight, and hide likes. The payout is a structure, not one headline number, and a California judge still has to approve it.