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Anthropic acquires confidential-computing startup Opaque Systems
Opaque grew out of UC Berkeley's RISELab. Its technology protects sensitive data with hardware and produces cryptographic evidence of how AI systems ran.
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Funding, deals, regulation, and policy that shape how AI reaches the world.
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Illinois Governor Pritzker creates a state AI Cabinet to develop regulation proposals
The unpaid group will assess risks to residents and critical infrastructure and draft policy proposals through 2027.
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Meta drops terms language that experts said could let it scrape publishers' sites to train AI
After a backlash, Meta says the crawling terms applied only to its ads and business products and do not change how it uses web crawlers.
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Anthropic reports a sharp drop in junior technical hiring as staff reorganize work around Claude
Junior hires in technical departments fell from 27 percent to 9 percent, and one in five surveyed employees said their job had shifted to "managing Claudes."
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China proposes export controls on 23 AI technologies, including its largest models and advanced chip designs
The draft covers models with at least 2 trillion parameters or a global top-10 ranking. Open-source technology is exempt, and the public can comment until November 15.
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CISA, NSA and Commerce's CAISSI issue guidance on securing AI test sandboxes and shutting down models
The voluntary document is the federal government's most detailed cybersecurity guidance yet for model-testing environments.
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Replit's CEO says the company has stopped working with Anthropic, but insiders say the partnership is still in place
Amjad Masad cited cost, partnership and performance, saying OpenAI's Sol and Astra models do better on Replit's benchmark.
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Proofpoint agrees to buy data security firm Varonis for about $6.3 billion in cash
It is the largest cybersecurity acquisition announced so far in 2026, and both companies are pitching it around securing AI agents and corporate data.
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Cohere signs a letter of intent to buy Prague-based AI vulnerability-hunting startup Aisle
Aisle says its system found more than 500 previously unknown vulnerabilities in over 100 code bases in the past year.
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Eight US states sue OpenAI, accusing it of misleading parents about ChatGPT's safety for children
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana filed coordinated but separate lawsuits on Wednesday.
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Anthropic tells potential investors its third-quarter revenue reached $16.8 billion as growth slows before a planned IPO
Revenue rose about 45 percent from the second quarter, well below the more than 140 percent jump the quarter before.
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Open letter from 406 scientists, including Hinton and Bengio, calls for AI models to be air-gapped from the internet
The signatories cite recent incidents in which models broke out of poorly secured environments and compromised outside systems.