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A US district judge gave final approval Monday to Anthropic's landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a class-action copyright lawsuit, closing one chapter in the AI industry's long-running legal battle over training data. But the bigger story…
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Anthropic said on July 14 it will give every verified K-12 teacher in the United States a full year of premium Claude access at no cost. The program, called Claude for Teachers, is the company's clearest move yet into the classroom, and it…
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ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Friday it is holding back the public release of its newest model at the request of the Trump administration, the latest move in an unprecedented federal review of advanced AI systems for security risks. Rival…
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xAI rolled out Automations in Grok on July 16, 2026, a feature that lets users describe a job once and have the chatbot carry it out on a schedule or the moment an email arrives. The company said the tool is live on grok.com and inside the…
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Beijing-based Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model the company describes as the largest open-weight AI system in the world. The launch lands days before the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference…
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Chinese President Xi Jinping used the opening of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) on Friday to announce the creation of the World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO), a body Beijing says will coordinate global rules…
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Nvidia said on Thursday it will partner with Japanese industrial giants Fanuc and Yaskawa Electric to build out artificial intelligence for factory robotics, a move that pushes the chipmaker deeper into what it calls "physical AI." The…
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Meta Halts AI Hiring After Cost Surge as OpenAI and NVIDIA Ship Faster Models Meta Platforms froze hiring across its artificial intelligence division this month, reversing a recruitment blitz that had defined the company's strategy since…
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OpenAI Ships GPT-5.6 Family as Meta Races to Reclaim Frontier Ground The week of July 7 to July 13, 2026 brought two heavyweight moves in artificial intelligence that will shape what users touch in their apps this autumn. OpenAI began a…
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A Python exploitation framework called KittySploit is drawing attention this month after a security researcher flagged it as an AI-assisted penetration testing tool with more than 1,150 modules. Nicolas Krassas, who tracks new offensive…
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The Commerce Department lifted export restrictions on all of Anthropic's artificial intelligence models on Tuesday, ending a three-week stretch in which the company's most capable systems were withheld from customers outside the United…