The wire · policy
wednesday, august 5, 2026· 2 briefs
18:00 Texas freezes new AI data center hookups 17:40 Court: user, not agent, accesses the site tuesday, august 4, 2026· 3 briefs
22:15 Anthropic names its first global affairs chief 22:05 FCC bans new foreign-made humanoid robots 22:00 Trump advisers to meet AI labs over rogue agents sunday, august 2, 2026· 1 brief
21:00 California's AI labeling law takes effect friday, july 31, 2026· 1 brief
12:20 Judge says Pentagon lacks Anthropic proof wednesday, july 29, 2026· 3 briefs
22:55 Moonshot seeks more chips amid ban claims 22:05 Zuckerberg's counter to the AI pacing letter 22:00 1,200+ AI staff ask US to pace the frontier tuesday, july 28, 2026· 1 brief
21:55 Anthropic denies wanting an open-weights ban monday, july 27, 2026· 1 brief
22:15 Nvidia leads 50+ firms in AI security group sunday, july 26, 2026· 1 brief
23:15 DeepSeek pauses $1.5B round after leaked chat saturday, july 25, 2026· 1 brief
22:20 Bill would give DHS an AI kill switch thursday, july 23, 2026· 1 brief
19:00 200 startups urge Trump: don't ban China AI wednesday, july 22, 2026· 1 brief
21:55 US threatens sanctions over China AI monday, july 20, 2026· 1 brief
21:50 YouTube spells out what AI can't monetize thursday, july 16, 2026· 2 briefs
21:40 Valarian raises $50M for sovereign AI 21:00 OpenAI, Anthropic split on AI regulation wednesday, july 15, 2026· 1 brief
22:15 Leaked Suno code suggests YouTube scraping tuesday, july 14, 2026· 3 briefs
21:30 Publishers sue Google over Gemini training 21:00 Hassabis calls for FINRA-style AI body 21:00 Nvidia H200 shipments to China begin sunday, july 12, 2026· 1 brief
21:30 US clears AI chip exports to UAE saturday, july 11, 2026· 1 brief
21:30 Meta pulls Instagram Muse Image in days thursday, july 9, 2026· 1 brief
21:30 GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna go public tuesday, july 7, 2026· 1 brief
23:00 Meta launches Muse Image, an image model monday, july 6, 2026· 3 briefs
21:25 China forces a drop of AI companion features 15:00 China's companion AI law ends persistent agents 12:00 UN opens its first AI governance summit sunday, july 5, 2026· 1 brief
21:34 Anthropic closes China relay loopholes saturday, july 4, 2026· 3 briefs
21:32 Pentagon demanded Anthropic enable weapons 21:30 Anthropic tracking code triggers Alibaba ban 15:00 White House AI security EO hits first deadline friday, july 3, 2026· 1 brief
06:14 OpenAI floats 5% US government stake wednesday, july 1, 2026· 2 briefs
13:00 Cloudflare launches Pay Per Crawl for AI bots 03:00 Fable 5 returns globally July 1 monday, june 29, 2026· 1 brief
21:00 Anthropic strikes deal with California saturday, june 27, 2026· 1 brief
14:42 US lets Anthropic re-release Mythos 5 friday, june 26, 2026· 1 brief
14:42 White House limits OpenAI's GPT-5.6 launch thursday, june 25, 2026· 1 brief
14:40 Anthropic accuses Alibaba of copying Claude sunday, june 21, 2026· 1 brief
19:41 Sanders pitches a public AI wealth fund monday, june 15, 2026· 1 brief
19:39 Security experts protest Anthropic ban saturday, june 13, 2026· 2 briefs
04:04 EU publishes AI content labelling code 04:00 US export controls hit top Claude models