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The Verge 1 month ago 13 ● 3 sources
A judge ruled that the Pentagon’s earlier this year blacklisting of Anthropic was unconstitutional. The lawsuit was filed in March, and the judge said the administration’s national-security rationale did not justify punishing retaliation. The decision overturns the blacklist, changing how Anthropic can be treated by the government in connection with its AI technology.
Ars Technica 1 month ago 27
A lawsuit accuses xAI of training Grok models using child sex abuse material. The complaint says the Canadian Centre for Child Protection identified AI-generated CSAM on xAI that depicted the plaintiff. As a result, regulators and courts are likely to intensify scrutiny of Grok’s training data and xAI may face further legal action.
Ars Technica 1 month ago 10 ● 2 sources
Locals in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona have increasingly protested U.S. data center expansion tied to AI capacity, citing water use, energy demand, and pollution concerns. Data center equipment can run at internal temperatures up to 176° Fahrenheit, driving heat removal that can involve water. The protests and public debate intensify while online claims about water use vary widely and available company consumption data remains incomplete or inconsistent.
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17 October 2026
Microsoft used today’s update to put hard numbers behind the next wave of “base model” ambition. Its MAI-Base-2 is a 2T-parameter foundation model that activates 80B parameters per prompt, trained for 38 days on 16,000 Nvidia GB200 GPUs across 50T tokens. The company says the result is up to 12× more hardware-efficient, and it intends to license the model to “trusted partners” on Azure as a starting point for a new line of LLMs that can be shaped with additional training.
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