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The Pentagon has added OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok to its main artificial intelligence (AI) platform, giving millions of U.S. military and civilian personnel access to more commercial AI models. The move expands the Department of Defense’s GenAI.mil platform, which already offered Google’s Gemini, while Anthropic’s Claude remains absent following a dispute over how the military can use its technology. ChatGPT and Grok join GenAI.mil The Pentagon announced the additions in late August, introducing ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government through GenAI.mil. The platform is designed to give Defense Department personnel access to commercial AI systems in a secure environment…

Meta has agreed to pay up to $16.68 billion over the next decade and make major changes to how Facebook and Instagram serve its under-18 users. The agreement ends a major U.S. case that accused the social media company of designing its platforms to encourage compulsive use among children and teenagers. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers approved the settlement on August 26, ending a federal trial that began eight days earlier. More importantly, state attorneys general described the broader agreement as the largest state consumer protection settlement outside the Big Tobacco settlements of the 1990s. The case, brought by…

Eight days after taking charge of Apple, CEO John Ternus walked onto the stage at the Steve Jobs Theater and introduced the iPhone Duo, the company’s first foldable iphone. This marks the iPhone-maker’s first entrance into the foldable smartphone market, nearly seven years after Samsung introduced its first Galaxy Fold. The iPhone Duo folds into a 5.4-inch phone The Duo uses a book-style design that opens to reveal a 7.6-inch inner display. When closed, it has a 5.4-inch outer screen that Apple says provides 90% of the screen area of the iPhone 18 Pro. The inner display is the largest…

A Microsoft 365 outage that disrupted businesses around the world has highlighted how closely enterprise AI tools are tied to the cloud systems that support them. The disruption, which began on August 31, affected Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint and Microsoft 365 Copilot. While services recovered in stages, some problems persisted until September 3, when Microsoft said the incident was fully resolved at 10 AM UTC. Microsoft initially attributed the incident to a problem with a core authentication configuration shared by several Microsoft 365 services. And this failure showed how a problem in one shared system can affect several workplace tools…

The United States has secured G20 consensus for the Carolina Principles for Emerging Technologies, placing an innovation-focused approach at the centre of the group’s policy discussion on artificial intelligence and other fast-moving technologies. At a two-day Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on September 2nd, the framework was agreed, and the principles ask governments to use existing sector rules where they fit and reserve new regulation for situations that current laws cannot adequately address. The agreement gives the U.S. a shared G20 statement supporting a lighter, more targeted route to technology policy, while allowing every member to build its…

The fight over how AI companies use copyrighted material has now moved from books to music. Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have sued Anthropic over allegations that the company used copyrighted song lyrics and sheet music to train its Claude artificial intelligence models without permission. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on August 28, names Anthropic, CEO Dario Amodei, and co-founder Benjamin Mann as defendants. The publishers are seeking damages of up to $150,000 for each copyrighted work they say was infringed, along with a court order preventing Anthropic from…

OpenAI’s first custom AI chip has delivered higher performance per watt than Nvidia’s Blackwell systems in benchmark tests, giving the company a more efficient option for running large language models (LLMs). The chip, called Jalapeño, handled between 1.5 and 1.9 times more AI work per kilowatt than Nvidia’s GB200 and GB300 systems across three models tested on the public InferenceX benchmark. It also recorded between 1.7 and 3.6 times lower end-to-end latency. The results give OpenAI its first measured evidence that designing hardware around the workloads its models need can produce significant efficiency gains. Jalapeño Takes on Nvidia’s Blackwell Systems…

A federal judge has sided with Anthropic in its fight with the Pentagon, ruling that the U.S. government unlawfully retaliated against the AI safety company after it refused to allow its Claude model to be used for fully autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance. The ruling strikes down the Pentagon’s decision to designate Anthropic a national security supply chain risk and finds that the government violated the company’s First and Fifth Amendment rights. It also gives Anthropic a major legal victory in a dispute that has produced growing tensions over how far AI companies should be expected to go when building…

Usain Bolt’s 100-metre world record stood for 17 years. Now, a Chinese humanoid robot has run the distance almost a second faster. Tiangong Ultra, developed by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, completed the 100 metres in 8.64 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing last week, August 26. The time broke the robot’s own record of 8.86 seconds, set the previous day, and went well inside Bolt’s 9.58-second human world record from 2009. The achievement came at the end of a five-day competition that brought together more than 2,000 robots from 666 teams. The event included sprinting,…

Anthropic is getting ready to show investors what its business really looks like. The artificial intelligence company behind Claude is expected to publicly unveil its IPO prospectus shortly after Labor Day, according to Reuters, putting it on track for a possible stock market debut in late September or early October. Anthropic had already confidentially filed draft IPO paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in June, but the public filing will give investors their first detailed look at the company’s finances, risks and plans. From No Immediate Plans to a Public Filing In December 2025, Anthropic Chief Communications Officer…