Futureshock section
Policy
Regulation, courts, antitrust and the people writing the rules for the future.
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Robot Imports Are Now a National Security Threat. The Tariffs Come Later, Maybe
A new Section 232 proclamation says imported robots and factory machinery threaten US security, but it sets no tariff. It starts a…
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Hackers Knocked the FEC’s Filing System Offline for 41 Hours Before the Midterms
A ‘bad actor’ tried to breach the FEC a week before the midterms, blacking out last-minute campaign money disclosures for nearly 41…
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Show Me the Money: Anthropic Opens Its Books as Broadcom, SpaceX and Meta Line Up AI Compute Deals
Anthropic files for a Nasdaq IPO with $16.3B in first-half revenue, OpenAI halves agent pricing with GPT-6.1 Terra, and Broadcom, SpaceX and…
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UN Official Warns AI Could Turn the Digital Divide Into an Opportunity Divide
Africa and Latin America hold 3.3% of global data-center capacity, and closing the infrastructure gap needs $2.8 trillion by 2030, ITU’s deputy…
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UK Pledges £100m for an AI Biosecurity Lab, Backed by £200m in AI Credits
Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, the UK announced a £100m AI Biosecurity Lab backed by £200m in model credits, plus £120m more for…
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Forced to Pick a Candidate, GPT Chose Democrats 97% and Grok Republicans 92%
A Convovo study pushed GPT-6.1 Sol and Grok 4.7 to pick a side in nearly 500 midterm races via their APIs. They…
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Elvis Presley’s Rights Holders Sue Anthropic Over 274 Songs Used to Train Claude
Authentic Brands Group and other Elvis rights holders want $41.1M and an injunction, saying Anthropic trained on 274 songs and Claude still…
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Commerce Puts $260 Million in CHIPS Money Into Fusion Chips for Helion and CFS
Commerce signed letters of intent for $389M in CHIPS R&D awards, led by $175M for Helion and $85M for Commonwealth Fusion Systems.…
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DHS Orders DeepSeek Out of Federal Systems, Including Products Built on It
A FASCSA order bars DeepSeek from federal civilian procurement and orders removal of “third-party products and services developed using DeepSeek implementations.” Nobody…
