The AI Ad-Hoc Prior Restraint Era Begins
The White House has ordered Anthropic not to expand access to Mythos, and is at least seriously considering a complete about-face of American Frontier AI policy into a full prior restraint regime, where anyone wishing to release a highly capable new model will have to ask for…


US government now has pre-release access to AI models from five major labs for national security testing
The US Department of Commerce is expanding its AI safety testing: Following Anthropic and OpenAI, Google Deepmind, Microsoft, and xAI have now signed agreements with the Center for AI Standards and Innovation. The companies provide models with reduced safety guardrails for…

GameStop CEO Sees New Target, Possible Payday in eBay
The CEO who helped define the meme-stock era has proposed a brash, unsolicited $56 billion offer for the online commerce company. Cecilia D'Anastasio has more (Source: Bloomberg)