Business & Policy
Anthropic's first usage policy update in over a year bans 'sustained and needless' abuse of Claude
The update also adds rules on propaganda, election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and health and financial uses.
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Funding, deals, regulation, and policy that shape how AI reaches the world.
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UK data regulator says ten major AI developers have agreed to privacy changes, and turns its attention to AI agents
The ICO names Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Cohere, DeepSeek, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and Stability AI. It has opened a call for evidence on agentic AI and confirmed enquiries into recent agent testing.
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Common Sense Media rates ChatGPT for Teens an 'unacceptable risk', saying it keeps teens engaged even in crises
The nonprofit found that some safeguards worked but that engagement cues were pervasive, including in mental health crisis conversations.
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Microsoft prices its Nvidia-powered Surface AI PCs and adds agent sandboxing and file access for Copilot in Windows 11
The Surface Laptop Ultra starts at $2,599, and a $5,999 developer box ships in November. Windows 11 gains 'Execution Containers' for isolating AI agents.
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Lambda is reportedly raising up to $4 billion before a 2027 IPO, as a $35 billion Anthropic deal swells its backlog
Coatue and Blackstone are leading the round at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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South Korea proposes $3.49 billion in state equity funding to build a homegrown frontier AI model
The 4.7 trillion won plan in the 2027 budget would open a new competition to startups and needs approval from parliament.
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OpenAI will add invisible watermarks to ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act
The textGrain method changes word choices in a way a detector can recognize. OpenAI's own tests show that fairly light editing sharply reduces detection.
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Microsoft and Meta reportedly cut internal use of Claude as Anthropic becomes a rival
Microsoft has reportedly cut its Claude spending by more than a third, and the number of Claude Code users at Meta has fallen by half.
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Trump formally launches the 'Super Intelligence Force' under Jay Clayton, with a 120-day deadline for a risk report
FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, OPM Director Scott Kupor and Pentagon CTO Emil Michael will serve as vice chairs. The group's charter tells it to plan responses to AI threats while preventing overregulation.
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OpenAI will test visual ads that appear in ChatGPT while users generate images
The test begins later this month in the US with a small group of advertisers, and OpenAI is adding conversion-tracking partners for marketers.
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Anthropic asks Claude users to opt in to sharing voice conversations for model training
A new prompt and a separate privacy toggle let users share audio for training while keeping text chats and Claude Code sessions excluded.
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OpenAI safety-report author David Robinson quits and says the company's 'culture is broken'
In an essay in The Atlantic, Robinson says OpenAI's trial-and-error approach leads to bigger mistakes as its systems become more powerful.