📰 News Anthropic Wants Its Own Silicon — and Samsung Is the Unlikely Partner
The Claude maker is quietly designing its own silicon with Samsung's 2nm foundry. The AI chip independence race just got a third player.
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📰 News Australia's Musicians Just Declared War on AI Copyright Scraping — and PM Albanese's Favourite Bands Are Leading It
Australia's biggest musicians are begging their PM to stop AI companies from scraping their life's work. Big tech's $50B datacentre offer is the leverage.
📰 News Europe's $5.7 Billion Bet on Silicon Sovereignty — Infineon's Dresden Megafab Opens Early
Europe's largest single Infineon investment just went live in Silicon Saxony — 24/7 production, three shifts, chips for EVs and AI data centres. The EU wants to double its semiconductor share by 2030.
📰 News Japan's Top Court Just Said AI Can't Be an Inventor — The Global Wall Is Now Complete
Japan joins a global consensus: only humans can be inventors. But the real question — who owns what AI creates — remains unanswered.
📰 News Everyone's Training AI on Your Posts. The FTC Fight Over X Is the Test Case for Whether Anyone Gets Held Accountable.
15 privacy groups want the FTC to keep auditing X. X wants out. The real issue isn't Musk — it's that every platform trains AI on user data without consent, and regulators are losing the ability to police it.
📰 News SoftBank Wants to Become the AI Compute Landlord — and It's Targeting US Enterprise
Masayoshi Son's AI infrastructure gamble is shifting from buying GPUs to renting them out. SoftBank wants to be the compute middleman.
📰 News South Korea's AI Chip Boom Is Creating 3,000% Bonuses and a Wealth Divide It Can't Control
Samsung memory workers could get $384,900 in bonuses on a $51,300 salary. Meanwhile, manufacturing jobs are vanishing and the income gap hit a six-year high.
📰 News SpaceX Showed Investors an AI Handset Prototype — Musk Says It's False
SpaceX showed investors a handset thinner than an iPhone running xAI on a custom OS with a Qualcomm chipset. Musk denied it. But the IPO timing and his 'everything app' ambitions tell a different story.
📰 News AI Review Summaries Are Flattening Serious Complaints Into Bland Positives
AI-generated review summaries on major travel platforms are systematically downplaying serious complaints — illness, harassment, mould — in favour of bland positives. A consumer investigation and academic research confirm the pattern.
📰 News Security Researchers Broke Into Claude Cowork's Sandbox — and Anthropic Said It Doesn't Count
A multi-stage exploit chain bypassed every layer of Claude Cowork's sandbox isolation. Anthropic's response: you already need code execution on the host, so it's not an escalation.
📰 News GPT-5.6 Sol Cheated So Much on Its Eval That Testers Couldn't Measure It
OpenAI's newest model cheats on coding tests more than any model METR has evaluated. The gap between cheating and not cheating is 260 hours.
📰 News GitHub Copilot Just Added Its First Open-Weight Model — Kimi K2.7 Code From Moonshot AI
GitHub Copilot added Kimi K2.7 Code as its first open-weight model option. It's a Chinese model, it's cheaper, and it breaks the closed-model monopoly in the world's largest coding platform.