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Norway plans to regulate camera-equipped smart glasses more strictly, floating a ban on public facial recognition, though critics say it wouldn’t stop covert filming.

OpenAI told lawmakers it’s developing automated shutdown capabilities for its AI systems, but a Democratic congressman says it still won’t share logs from the Hugging Face hack.

Apple says forensic analysis of an ex-engineer’s MacBook shows he used a stolen Apple schematic at OpenAI and trained an AI agent to run simulations with it.

Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash for coding and reasoning at unchanged pricing, alongside a restricted cyber model, as Google engineers reportedly preferred it to Anthropic’s Opus in internal tests.

Palo Alto Networks’ CEO says AI is forcing a $1 trillion overhaul of outdated cybersecurity systems, crediting Anthropic’s Mythos model with jolting companies into urgency.

OpenAI says its unreleased Astra model can autonomously find and exploit unknown security flaws, the first system it has rated at its highest cyber-risk tier.

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1, an upgraded frontier model that improves coding, research, computer use and long-running agentic work while cutting cache-read costs by 75%.

Open-source AI agent OpenClaw released its largest update yet, simplifying installation and adding shared cloud sessions that let multiple people collaborate on one agent.

OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate in under 200 days, expanding self-serve ad buying to India, Europe and the Middle East.

Anthropic agreed to a $35 billion, six-year computing deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda, its latest megadeal in a compute-buying spree that has topped $150 billion this year.

A federal judge ruled the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk was illegal retaliation for the company’s public stance on military AI use.

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, though no signed deal is confirmed and talks could still fall apart.

Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, letting AI agents operate lab and factory equipment like microscopes and robotic arms in its first physical-world product.

Nvidia is building hardware optimizations for Chinese AI models like DeepSeek and Qwen, even as it warns regulators that US restrictions on such models could hurt its business.

Google launched Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model supporting 85+ languages that cleans up filler words and self-corrections, ranking fifth on an independent accuracy leaderboard.