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Friday, 28 August 2026

Judge: Pentagon punished Anthropic for 'arrogance,' and that's illegal

Fortune 40 ● 2 sources

A federal judge ruled that the Pentagon acted illegally when it punished Anthropic for criticizing the DoD’s AI views after labeling the company a supply chain risk earlier this year. The decision was issued Thursday night by U.S. District Judge Rita Lin. The ruling blocks the government’s ability to impose penalties on that basis and is expected to be appealed, with the dispute further shaping how AI use in warfare and surveillance is debated.

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AI Governance AI Policy Anthropic Geopolitics

I went to China to see a different AI future. It looked familiar

Rest of World 1 month ago 10

Gordon Saft returned from a China trip with media, tech, policy, and finance leaders and found the AI and robotics future there to feel familiar despite differing U.S.-China narratives. The trip was made to assess conditions 18 months after DeepSeek’s launch reshaped open-source AI. He came back saying China’s emphasis on deploying AI into the physical world and discussing AI safety in state security contexts looked more similar to U.S. debates about risks and strategy than expected, with optimism and dynamism standing out as the main change.

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AI Governance AI Policy Geopolitics Open Source Models

How the U.S. and China Are Meme-ifying Modern War

ChinaTalk 1 month ago 9

Chinese and U.S. military accounts are blending memes and slick, AI-assisted video edits into propaganda that makes warfare feel playful or game-like rather than solemn. The article cites that China’s WeChat has about 1.38 billion monthly active users and notes PLA and U.S. government teams distribute content across social platforms to amplify these remixes. As a result, military messaging increasingly uses animal/animation filters, viral soundtracks, and gamified montages—potentially accelerating the normalization and manipulation of how war is perceived online.

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