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A First Amendment Approach to Regulating AI Model Weights

It is unclear whether AI model weights are speech. But any regime that licenses them should be built with First Amendment protections regardless.

Android Dev Summit 2026 Is Packed with AI Tools to Power Your Daily Apps

Google opens Android development to third-party AI agents and unveils new Gemini APIs

Google is opening up Android Studio to third-party AI agents. Through a new "Bring Your Own Agent" feature, the IDE now supports more than 40 coding agents, including Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex. Google says new terminal tools also help agents finish UI tasks 77 percent faster while using up to three times fewer tokens. Android development is becoming agent-centric too.

Android Dev Summit 2026 is packed with AI tools to power your daily apps

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As AI agents reshape the web, Google opens Gemini and Search to more apps

A new developer platform will let businesses bring their services to Google's AI experiences, potentially changing how consumers discover and use apps.

Amazon Warns Employees Against Costly AI Habit

Amazon NASDAQ:AMZN is telling its software engineers to use artificial intelligence aggressively, but not blindly.In an updated internal engineering guideline, the company cautioned employees against tokenmaxxing, or maximizing AI-token usage simply to hit activity metrics, warning that doing so ca…

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.

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.

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.

Crypto Long & Short: What happens when an AI agent pays for the wrong thing

DEK: The largest card networks now sit in the top governance tier of x402, the standard that AI agents use to pay for things online. Albert Castellana of GenLayer Labs explains why that standard has no way to dispute a charge,