AI
NSA, CISA and FBI Name Six Chinese AI Labs in Distillation Advisory
Three U.S. security agencies formally accused six Chinese AI companies of industrial-scale distillation — and Anthropic's numbers arrived days later.
Policy
Education
111,000 Fewer International Students This Fall. Who Pays?
U.S. campuses are opening with a projected 111,000 fewer international students — a 9.5% drop worth $3.4 billion — and visa rules tighten again September 15.
Education
NYC Bans Student-Facing AI Through 8th Grade
The nation's largest school system is blocking student-facing AI for nearly 600,000 students through 8th grade — the broadest K-12 AI moratorium in the U.S.
Technology
California's Age Law Forgot Linux Exists. The Fix Passed 109–0.
California voted unanimously to exempt open-source operating systems from its age-verification law, after a year of warnings that Linux couldn't comply.
AI
'Not a Blank Check': Judge Voids the Pentagon's Anthropic Blacklist
A federal judge ruled the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk designation of Anthropic unconstitutional — First Amendment retaliation dressed as national security.
AI
Bill Gates Says AI's 'Bad Stuff Is Imminent.' He Wants a Plan.
Gates says the industry is downplaying AI risks it privately fears, and proposes token taxes, 'Human Reserved' jobs, and new national and global institutions.
AI
The AI Review Framework Is Done. You Can't Read It.
The pre-release review framework from Trump's June AI order is finished. The labs have seen it; the public never will — much of it is classified.
AI
Who Clicks When the AI Clicks? The Ninth Circuit Says You Do
The Ninth Circuit vacated Amazon's injunction against Perplexity's Comet agent: under the CFAA it's the user, not the AI company, doing the accessing.
AI
Musk's Midterm Money Now Comes With a Frontier AI Lab Attached
Axios reports Musk is reviving America PAC for a big GOP turnout push. The political press is covering the money. The tech story is what he owns now that he didn't in 2024 — and who regulates it.
AI
The EU's AI Transparency Rules Have Teeth Tomorrow
The delay headlines were about high-risk systems. Article 50 kept its date: tomorrow, AI transparency duties become enforceable in the EU and beyond.