Trump told Axios that Anthropic has "behaved very responsibly" and signalled he may ease restrictions on its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models.

Asus listed the 2026 ROG Zephyrus G16 with an RTX 5080 at $4,799. The 2025 model with a faster RTX 5090 and 64GB of RAM sells for $200 less.

Aether AI, founded by UCSD researcher Biwei Huang, has raised $20mn to build causal world models for robots, a direct challenge to AI's scaling orthodoxy.

Norway will bar children aged 6 to 13 from using generative AI tools in school from late August. Teens 14-16 can use them only under teacher supervision.

John Edwards has resigned as the UK's information commissioner after admitting 'inappropriate' humour, the first such resignation in its 40-year history.

Google is copying Nvidia's playbook, using financial guarantees and circular financing, to win customers for its TPUs and loosen its grip on AI chips.

A court has preliminarily approved Sony's $7.85M settlement over claims it monopolised digital games by killing third-party game vouchers in 2019.

Google's AI Overviews repeatedly presented SCP Foundation horror fan-fiction as fact, Futurism found, in at least 20 cases, with no fiction disclaimer.

Three Amazon engineers say they were investigated after backing Seattle's data-centre limits. The AI build-out backlash is now bipartisan, and internal.

Private fusion investment has crossed $13B, with 17 startups raising $100M+. But no company has yet proven commercial-scale energy generation works.

JPL's ERNEST rover covered 16 miles in 37 hours of driving during desert testing, using active suspension and reinforcement learning to navigate terrain.

Bernie Sanders has introduced a bill to tax the biggest AI firms 50%, fund a $7tn public wealth fund, and pay every American over $1,000 a year.