U.K. Regulator Proposes New Rules for Apple and Google’s App Stores
A British developer who sells a subscription fitness app has spent five years paying a 15 to 30 percent commission on every payment made inside the app, with no way…
U.S. Set to Restore Foreign Access to Anthropic’s Fable 5
The export-control order landed on a Friday in June with little warning. U.S. officials told Anthropic to cut off foreign access to its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos…
SpaceX Shares Slide as Nasdaq-100 Entry Nears
SpaceX shares fell again this week, extending a slide from their post-IPO highs and breaching a key support level, according to Barron’s. The decline has erased a substantial portion of…
OpenAI Ships GPT-5.6 With Tighter Controls and a Locked Door
OpenAI has released GPT-5.6, a new version of its flagship model with strengthened cyber-safety features and stricter usage controls, and for the first time the company is holding back part…
White House Asks OpenAI to Delay Next Model as Safety Review Proceeds
The White House on June 25 formally asked OpenAI to postpone the release of its next large language model, citing safety and national security concerns, according to multiple reports. TechCrunch…
Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Scraping Claude Data With 25,000 Fake Accounts
Anthropic publicly accused Alibaba of systematically harvesting data from its Claude AI assistant through 25,000 fake accounts, a claim that, if accurate, would be one of the largest known thefts…
Anthropic Hires Orange AI Chief to Lead Europe Expansion
Anthropic has appointed the head of AI at French telecom Orange as its president of Europe, according to Reuters, a hire timed to the approach of the European Union’s AI…
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Menlo Ventures Closes a $2 Billion Fund After a Bet That Paid Off Many Times Over Menlo Ventures has closed a new $2 billion fund, its largest in years, according…
Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking AI Project After Internal Data Leak
MENLO PARK — Meta has suspended an internal artificial-intelligence project that monitored employees’ mouse clicks and behavior to measure productivity, after a data leak inside the company raised privacy concerns,…
Five Eyes Agencies Warn AI Could Breach Cyber Defenses Within Months
WASHINGTON — The intelligence agencies of the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand issued a rare joint statement Tuesday warning that a new generation of artificial-intelligence models could…
