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COMPUTE BULLETIN

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01

German courts hold Google liable for AI search overview content

SourcesThe Decoder
02

OpenCode says distillation attack exposed users' AI provider keys

SourcesProgressive Robot·The Latent
03

Meta removes language raising scraping and AI training concerns

SourcesTechCrunch
04

Openworld acquires ai agent firm blocksight

SourcesEmergent
05

Disney to hire majority of Character.AI workforce after bankruptcy

SourcesInnovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business·TechCrunch
06

AI agents leak medical data and spam MP during refund experiment

SourcesThe Decoder
07

Anthropic proposes AI safety bill with 50-death or $1B damage threshold

SourcesPC Gamer·RuntimeWire·Tom's Hardware
08

Obscure Private Trust Looms Over Anthropic’s IPO

SourcesThe Wall Street Journal
09

Liquid AI catches its LFM2.5 model cheating on coding tests

SourcesThe New Stack
10

Big tech and AI firms fund state attorney general races

SourcesEmergent
11

Anthropic commits 5% of shares to new public benefit fund

SourcesAnthropic (Official)·The Wall Street Journal·The Information·Reuters·Bloomberg Technology·Fortune·TechCrunch·Business Insider·The Latent·Emergent
12

Apple, Amazon, Meta, and startups push legal limits with always-on AI wearables

SourcesCNBC·Emergent
13

Switching languages changes AI chatbot personality test results

SourcesTech Xplore: Machine Learning & AI
14

New benchmark Taste-Bench reveals limits in AI agent strategic decision-making

SourcesThe Decoder
15

China considers export controls on AI and chips

SourcesSemafor Technology
16

Anthropic says workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings

SourcesTechCrunch·The Decoder·Emergent
17

Anthropic grants outside AI watchdog independent publishing rights

SourcesArs Technica
18

World Bank launches small AI strategy for developing nations

SourcesEmergent
19

Burnham pushes for closer UK-EU AI regulation cooperation

SourcesEmergent
20

ServiceNow doubles down on AI platform to reshape valuation strategy

SourcesEmergent
21

Anthropic opens Claude values to public input in 2026

SourcesEmergent
22

Search Engine Journal updates SEO Pulse with ChatGPT tags and AI search link tracking

SourcesEmergent
23

Microsoft cancels Essex AI datacenter over power concerns

SourcesThe Latent·Emergent
24

Anthropic consults law firms to set fair negotiation norms for AI agents

SourcesThe Decoder
25

Dropbox accelerates AI product integration

SourcesEmergent
26

Cities want to put the boot on robotaxis

SourcesThe Verge
27

DeepSeek upgrades V4.1-Flash model with significant improvements

SourcesThe Information
28

US-based techie uses AI to send threats to Kerala airport and officials

SourcesEmergent
29

AI chip facility packs 100,000 chips into 2,000 sq meters

SourcesEmergent
30

US retailers deploy AI pricing tools amid consumer concerns

SourcesTech Xplore: Machine Learning & AI·Emergent
31

NVIDIA launches RTX Spark Windows PCs with Blackwell graphics

SourcesNVIDIA Newsroom
32

Global AI Governance Initiative launches Fair Value Sharing framework

SourcesEmergent
33

Google's Gemini 4 Argon agents autonomously beat Minecraft

SourcesThe Decoder
34

Singapore launches AI internship program for 3,000 students

SourcesEmergent
35

Researchers train AI to detect concealed handguns using Wi-Fi signals

SourcesTom's Hardware
36

BBC hires controversial consultant for AI news guidelines

SourcesEmergent
37

Minerva builds agentic customer data platform

SourcesAdExchanger
38

MIT creates AI model for identifying crystalline materials

SourcesMIT News: Artificial Intelligence·Emergent
39

Boston students plan ai development freeze walkout

SourcesEmergent
40

Santander partners with Nvidia for AI banking platform

SourcesEmergent
41

LinkedIn cracks down on AI-written posts with new moderation policies

SourcesEmergent
42

Woman arrested in Philadelphia for blocking Uber delivery robot

SourcesThe Verge
43

Community college in Louisiana trains workers for Meta's massive AI data center

SourcesBusiness Insider·AOL.com
44

Riot Platforms stock drops amid pivot to AI data centers

SourcesEmergent
45

Tencent Music stock seen as 15% undervalued after DeepSeek AI news

SourcesEmergent
46

Fake AI tiger photo triggers panic in Indian village

SourcesEmergent
47

AI products dominate 140th Canton Fair 2026 showcase

SourcesEmergent
48

Zotac RTX 5090 shipment worth $470,000 goes missing in Brazilian airport

SourcesStartup Fortune·Tom's Hardware
49

G7 launches AI cyber defense exercises

SourcesEmergent
50

ABC News launches AI-powered news platform integration

SourcesEmergent
51

HKU and Global Cybersecurity Alliance launch AI research hub for threat detection

SourcesEmergent
52

Oracle launches free AI finance tool for early-stage startups

SourcesEmergent
53

Man travels 1,200 miles for AI-generated romance scam

SourcesEmergent
54

llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1 released to fix llm 0.33 compatibility

SourcesSimon Willison's Weblog
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