EU KIDS Act extends platform restrictions to AI chatbots, bars under-13s from social media
The European Commission on September 17 adopted the EU KIDS Act, a legislative proposal that prohibits social media platforms from providing access to children under 13 and restricts autonomous account creation on social networking services…
Australia ditches most contentious AI copyright option after creator backlash
A proposal to let AI companies train on Australian copyrighted content after striking a minimum number of commercial deals appears to have been dropped from active government consideration, after it was excluded from a September 17 meeting…
Anthropic quantifies AI self-improvement: 26% of R&D AI-led, up from 1% in March
Anthropic reported on September 17 that its Claude models now lead 26% of the company's research and development work, up from 1% in March, and collaborate on more than 90% of projects, doing large chunks of work under close human direction…
Anthropic locks first Australian data center, a 2.16GW campus in Queensland
Anthropic has signed a long-term lease at Queensland's Western Downs Digital Park for its first data center in Australia, a 2.16GW campus that would rank as the country's largest such facility . Queensland Premier David Crisafulli announced…
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RANKED · 9 THIS DAYShane Legg opens DeepMind Institute, warns AI must not outrun safety
Shane Legg, cofounder of Google DeepMind, has warned that advancing AI capabilities must never run ahead of safety controls and has launched the DeepMind Institute to explore the deployment of artificial general intelligence, according to t…
Wayve hires Waymo's former CFO as it nears commercial deployment
Elisa de Martel, who served as chief financial officer at Alphabet's autonomous vehicle unit Waymo from 2022 to January 2026, has joined British self-driving startup Wayve in the same role . Outgoing CFO Max Warburton, who held the position…
UN and Google build MCP-backed data platform after LLMs score 21% on global statistics
The United Nations announced on Thursday that it is partnering with Google to rebuild how the world's authoritative statistics reach AI systems, after internal testing showed leading large language models answer questions about global devel…
Blackstone, Alphabet cloud venture Crux AI secures $22B bank loan for TPU purchases
A consortium of 10 banks is extending a $22 billion loan to Crux AI, the cloud venture backed by Blackstone and Alphabet Inc., to finance purchases of TPUs, according to Bloomberg . The loan ranks among the largest single debt facilities as…
Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign definitive merger agreement in reported $20B deal
Cohere and Aleph Alpha signed a definitive merger agreement on September 16, formalizing a transatlantic combination of two enterprise-focused AI companies in a deal reportedly valued at $20 billion . The combined entity will operate under…