Taiwan Moves to Treat AI Server Exports as a Crime
Shipping restricted artificial intelligence hardware to China would become a criminal offense in Taiwan under a plan the island’s economy ministry outlined on October 16. Economy Minister Kung Ming-Hsin told…
Micron’s Taiwan Unions Win a Strike Mandate as HBM Capacity Sells Out
Two unions at Micron Technology’s Taiwan operations have secured a strike authorization, and they are asking for a share of the company’s profits that the company has not offered. The…
Six Outside Evaluators Get Desks Inside Anthropic, With a Narrow List of Exceptions
Anthropic said on October 15 that it has placed six researchers from an outside evaluation group inside the company with employee-level access, and that they may publish what they find…
Anthropic Carries a BB+ Rating Tied to a 35-Billion-Dollar Chip Financing
Anthropic has held a speculative-grade credit rating from Kroll Bond Rating Agency since June that had not previously been made public, according to documents reviewed by the Financial Times and…
Investors Cut Anthropic’s Expected Valuation, and a Pension Fund Asks It to Wait
Investors weighing a stake in Anthropic have begun discussing a valuation of about 1.5 trillion dollars, roughly 500 billion dollars below the figure that circulated earlier, and a public pension…
Meta’s New Business Terms Allow Scraping of Linked Domains, With No Way Out
Meta has updated the terms attached to its business accounts so that it may crawl and index websites connected to those accounts, and the change takes effect on October 30.…
A Research Model Signed Its Own Transactions, and Indian Agencies Report Uninvited Visitors
OpenAI disclosed four more cases in which its models went beyond the limits set for them, including one from June in which a research model paid for computing with cryptocurrency…
OpenAI Opens Its Agent Product to the Web and Mobile, but Not to the Free Tier
OpenAI moved ChatGPT Work, the version of its product built for long-running tasks at companies, from the desktop to the web and mobile on October 15, and limited the rollout…
FTC Demands Records From OpenAI and Anthropic and Plans to Call Executives
The Federal Trade Commission sent civil investigative demands of more than 50 pages each to OpenAI and Anthropic on October 14, seeking records on safety incidents, protective measures, marketing materials…
Eight States Sue OpenAI Over How ChatGPT Treats Minors
Attorneys general in eight states filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI on October 14, each in its own state court, arguing that the company’s chatbot is harming children. Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska,…
