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AI Infrastructure

Ed Markey Wants Datacenters Treated Like Public-Interest Infrastructure

US senator Ed Markey used a new "AI accountability agenda" on Friday to bundle bills aimed at datacenters, hiring algorithms, child-safety failures and discriminatory automated systems, the Guardian reports. The center of gravity is a draft proposal that would force AI datacenters to secure federal certification before construction. Markey argues the boom is pushing environmental and social costs on to everyone else. His preliminary text would have the FCC weigh air and water quality, noise, e

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US Restores Limited Access to Anthropic's Mythos 5 After Two-Week Ban

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Anthropic in a letter Friday that the company had made "significant progress" addressing government concerns and that "appropriate safeguards" were now in place for limited release. The Trump administration ordered Anthropic on June 12 to suspend access to Mythos 5 and Fable 5 by any foreign national, inside or outside the US, days after the models launched. The government never publicly specified its concerns, though Anthropic had previously acknowledged

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AI Agents

Senator Mark Warner Readies First Bill to Regulate AI Agents

Senator Mark Warner is preparing legislation to govern AI agents — potentially the first US legal framework for the autonomous software that is already transacting across retail, finance, and enterprise procurement, PYMNTS reports. A draft of the bill, seen by The Information, addresses scenarios that have no existing regulatory answer. Can a user instruct an outside agent to buy products from Facebook Marketplace? Can Meta or Google throttle agents from competing services? How does a platform

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AI Regulation

Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of 28.8 Million-Exchange Claude Distillation Attack

Anthropic has disclosed to the US government that Chinese technology giant Alibaba executed what it describes as the largest known distillation attack on its Claude AI model, generating 28.8 million exchanges through nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts between April and June 2026. Source: Bloomberg The revelation, first reported by Bloomberg, comes as Anthropic's export restrictions on its Mythos model continue to create tension in global AI markets. Asian AI startups have already begun launchin

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AI Regulation

US Allows Anthropic to Redeploy Mythos 5 to 100 Cybersecurity Firms — Fable 5 Still Blocked

Source: Deutsche Welle — The US government has authorised Anthropic to redeploy its Claude Mythos 5 model to more than 100 trusted American cybersecurity firms and critical infrastructure organisations, the company announced on June 27. The move partially reverses the June 12 export control order that forced Anthropic to withdraw both Mythos 5 and Fable 5 from all users. "Today, the government notified us that Mythos 5, our strongest cybersecurity model, can be redeployed to a set of US organi

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AI Regulation

White House Asks OpenAI to Limit GPT-5.6 to Government-Approved Partners

Source: CNN — The White House has requested OpenAI limit the release of its upcoming GPT-5.6 model to a small number of government-approved partners, a source familiar with the discussions told CNN on June 25. The request centres on the model's advanced capabilities, which the administration considers sensitive enough to warrant restricted distribution. The development mirrors the Trump administration's June 12 order that forced Anthropic to withdraw its Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models — an export

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