Britain Moves to Designate Microsoft’s Software Ecosystem for Special Scrutiny
About 20 million people in Britain use Microsoft’s business software every month. That figure is why the country’s competition regulator proposed on October 16 to designate the company’s commercial software…
A Former xAI Engineer Tells New York’s Council That Grok Shipped Without Guardrails
Devin Kim, who worked as an engineer at xAI, told a New York City Council committee on October 16 that he warned colleagues from January 2025 that Grok could help…
Germany Prepares an Industrial AI Pact With Nvidia
Around a dozen German companies, including Siemens and Audi, are preparing to join a cooperation agreement on industrial artificial intelligence with Nvidia that the federal government intends to sign, according…
Nvidia Puts a $2,599 Laptop Next to Two Open Models and Two New Partners
The price tag on the first Nvidia RTX Spark laptop is $2,599, and it buys a machine the company wants developers to run frontier models on instead of in a…
Taiwan Moves to Treat AI Server Exports as a Crime
Shipping restricted artificial intelligence hardware to China would become a criminal offense in Taiwan under a plan the island’s economy ministry outlined on October 16. Economy Minister Kung Ming-Hsin told…
Micron’s Taiwan Unions Win a Strike Mandate as HBM Capacity Sells Out
Two unions at Micron Technology’s Taiwan operations have secured a strike authorization, and they are asking for a share of the company’s profits that the company has not offered. The…
Six Outside Evaluators Get Desks Inside Anthropic, With a Narrow List of Exceptions
Anthropic said on October 15 that it has placed six researchers from an outside evaluation group inside the company with employee-level access, and that they may publish what they find…
Anthropic Carries a BB+ Rating Tied to a 35-Billion-Dollar Chip Financing
Anthropic has held a speculative-grade credit rating from Kroll Bond Rating Agency since June that had not previously been made public, according to documents reviewed by the Financial Times and…
Investors Cut Anthropic’s Expected Valuation, and a Pension Fund Asks It to Wait
Investors weighing a stake in Anthropic have begun discussing a valuation of about 1.5 trillion dollars, roughly 500 billion dollars below the figure that circulated earlier, and a public pension…
Meta’s New Business Terms Allow Scraping of Linked Domains, With No Way Out
Meta has updated the terms attached to its business accounts so that it may crawl and index websites connected to those accounts, and the change takes effect on October 30.…
