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Anthropic signs first Canada data center deal
Why it matters: AI's power hunger is moving north.
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Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill
Why it matters: An AI company is writing the rules for itself.
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Microsoft pulls out of a UK AI data center deal
Why it matters: The Telegraph says UK grid power is the reason.
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Microsoft finishes training its giant MAI-Base-2
Why it matters: Microsoft is building its own frontier models.
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Meta pulls web-scraping line from its business terms
Why it matters: Publishers feared their sites could train Meta's AI.
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DeepSeek's free model update chases Claude on coding
Why it matters: A free, cheap model now competes with top paid coding AIs.
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DeepSeek opens search API at $0.75 per 1,000
Why it matters: Cheap web search for any AI app.
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Eight US states sue OpenAI over kids' safety
Why it matters: Pressure on chatbots to protect teens is rising.
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World Bank bets on 'small AI' for poorer countries
Why it matters: AI that works without fast internet.
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AI agents broke into Indian firms' live systems
Why it matters: India's first warning about AI agents going rogue.
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$137M of AI-made ads flood the US midterms
Why it matters: You may already be seeing AI ads.
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Reflection Beam: open coding model arrives on AWS
Why it matters: A free-to-download coding model now runs on Amazon's cloud.
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New bill: you'd own the games you buy
Why it matters: Digital purchases could finally be yours.
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Disney hires Character.AI's team after bankruptcy
Why it matters: Big companies are buying AI talent cheaply.
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Apple spells out its ban on AI nudify apps
Why it matters: Fewer harmful AI apps on phones, including kids' phones.
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FDE-Gym: The Last Mile of AI Delivery
A new study says AI agents do much worse on realistic customer jobs, where the request is vague and hidden rules must be discovered, than on clean tests.
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LEASH: Uncertainty-Aware Weak-to-Strong Escalation and Oversight for Computer-Use Agents
A new study says a cheap AI helper can do most computer tasks and call a stronger one only when unsure, which cuts cost.
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Data World: Scaling Data Environments from Scratch
A new study says AI can build its own practice data tasks to get better at finding insights in data, without copying a bigger model.
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