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Pentagon Calls Anthropic's Safety Red Lines an 'Unacceptable Risk to National Security'
AI Policy

Pentagon Calls Anthropic's Safety Red Lines an 'Unacceptable Risk to National Security'

The Department of Defense filed its first formal rebuttal to Anthropic's lawsuit, doubling down on its supply chain risk designation and demanding Claude be available for all lawful military purposes. A preliminary injunction hearing is set for March 24.

Mar 20, 20265 min read
EU Council Agrees to Delay AI Act High-Risk Rules by Up to 16 Months
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EU Council Agrees to Delay AI Act High-Risk Rules by Up to 16 Months

The EU Council has backed a proposal to push enforcement of high-risk AI system obligations from August 2026 to as late as December 2027 or August 2028, citing missing standards and political pressure from the United States.

Mar 20, 20265 min read
GTC 2026 Closes: DLSS 5, Nemotron Coalition, and Jensen's $1 Trillion Projection
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GTC 2026 Closes: DLSS 5, Nemotron Coalition, and Jensen's $1 Trillion Projection

NVIDIA's GTC 2026 wrapped in San Jose with the unveiling of DLSS 5's neural rendering, a new Nemotron AI partner coalition including Mistral and Perplexity, and Jensen Huang's projection of over $1 trillion in visible revenue through 2027.

Mar 20, 20265 min read
Mistral's Forge Lets Enterprises Build AI Models from Their Own Data
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Mistral's Forge Lets Enterprises Build AI Models from Their Own Data

Announced at Nvidia GTC, Mistral Forge is a platform for organizations to train custom AI models from scratch using their own proprietary datasets—not fine-tuning, but full pre-training with Mistral's data pipeline and open-weight model library. Early customers include Ericsson, the European Space Agency, and Singapore's DSO.

Mar 19, 20265 min read
Multiverse Computing Opens Its Compressed AI Models to Developers
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Multiverse Computing Opens Its Compressed AI Models to Developers

Spanish AI startup Multiverse Computing launched a self-serve API portal and a consumer chat app built on its quantum-inspired compressed models, targeting enterprises that need production-ready AI without AWS Marketplace friction. The move puts compressed model inference—faster, cheaper, deployable on-device—directly in developers' hands.

Mar 19, 20265 min read
Nvidia Is Restarting H200 Production for China
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Nvidia Is Restarting H200 Production for China

Jensen Huang confirmed at GTC that Nvidia has received purchase orders from Chinese customers and is actively restarting H200 manufacturing—ending a roughly 10-month freeze on advanced chip exports to the world's second-largest AI market. Shipments will face U.S. inspections, a 25% duty, and per-customer caps.

Mar 19, 20265 min read
Perplexity's Comet Browser Lands on iPhone—Free
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Perplexity's Comet Browser Lands on iPhone—Free

Four months after the Android launch and one week behind schedule, Perplexity's AI-native Comet browser is now available on iOS. The iPhone version strips out desktop extensions but keeps Deep Research, voice mode, and agentic task completion—and drops the $200/month price tag from the Mac launch.

Mar 19, 20265 min read
Alibaba Raises AI Compute Prices Up to 34% as Chinese Demand Outpaces Supply
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Alibaba Raises AI Compute Prices Up to 34% as Chinese Demand Outpaces Supply

Alibaba Cloud hiked prices on T-Head AI chips and parallel file storage, a direct consequence of surging demand for domestic Chinese silicon after US export controls cut off Nvidia H100 and H200 access.

Mar 18, 20265 min read
Anthropic Adds Persistent Context to Claude's Cowork Agent Threads
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Anthropic Adds Persistent Context to Claude's Cowork Agent Threads

Claude Pro and Max subscribers can now run long-horizon tasks through a single persistent agent thread that retains context across sessions — no re-prompting required.

Mar 18, 20265 min read

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