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Anthropic proposes court blocks for risky AI models

Anthropic proposed allowing California officials to ask courts to block AI models if testing finds they pose a serious risk to society.

How GitHub Plans to Make Coding Easier for Beginners and More Ambitious for Experts

Copilot Fusion sits at the center of a strategy that treats AI agents as collaborators and keeps quality and security in view as more people start building

GenLayer Labs warns AI agent payments on x402 have no way to dispute a charge

GenLayer Labs' Albert Castellana warns the x402 AI agent payment standard has no dispute process and pitches a 30-cent Internet Court fix.

Airbyte MCP brings pipeline controls to all plans, with paid context-layer access

Airbyte’s MCP supports all-plan pipeline controls. Context-layer reads require Cloud or Enterprise Flex, with admin enablement and separate cloud-hosting limits.

Oracle AI World 2026: The Deal That Just Rewired the Enterprise AI Hardware Race

Google TPUs arrive on Oracle Cloud in 2027 — a first in chip history. What the Oracle AI World 2026 deal means for enterprise AI infrastructure and governance.

The security risks SMEs face from unchecked AI agents

Autonomous AI agents can unintentionally exploit vulnerabilities and APIs. Securing business systems requires strict access controls and limits on agent power.

AI coding startup Cognition is weighing a new funding round at a $70 billion to $80 billion valuation

The potential jump in valuation and investor interest underscores the frenzy around AI coding.

OpenAI releases AI claims in maths, computer science

Nvidia Faces Fresh Challenge as OpenAI Expands AI Bets

OpenAI is already one of the world's largest buyers of Nvidia ( NASDAQ:NVDA) GPUs, which remain central to both AI model training and inference. A deal with Google would therefore be notable because it could give OpenAI another major source of AI computing capacity while reducing its reliance on a single chip supplier.

Anthropic's unreleased AI model builds working exploits for Chrome, Safari, Windows, Linux and Android