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Pentagon Loses Its AI Contract Fight - TCR 05/25/26
The White House approved $9B in emergency AI chips for spy agencies, the NSA dropped the Pentagon's lawful-use clause, and Huawei named a path to 1.4nm.
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White House Kills AI Safety Order - TCR 05/22/26
Trump pulled a draft AI safety order hours before signing, London blocked a £50M Palantir police deal, and OpenAI disproved an 80-year-old Erdős conjecture.
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DeepMind Workers Take Military AI to Mediation - TCR 05/21/26
DeepMind UK workers moved a military AI dispute into Acas mediation, Lilly's retatrutide hit 28.3% weight loss, and a humanoid arm learned tasks from Claude-written code.
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Commerce to Pre-Test Frontier AI - TCR 05/06/26
The 20-Second Scan * The Commerce Department announced it will conduct pre-deployment testing of AI models from Google, Microsoft, and xAI, reversing the hands-off posture of the earlier AI Action Plan. * NERC issued a Level 3 alert - its highest - mandating seven actions by August 3 to address data center
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DeepMind Workers Vote 98% to Unionize - TCR 05/05/26
The 20-Second Scan * Google DeepMind employees voted 98% in favor of unionizing over AI military contracts, with at least 1,000 staff seeking joint representation by the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union. * The White House is considering a federal review process for new AI models before public release,
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AI Triage Beats ER Doctors - TCR 05/04/26
The 20-Second Scan * Britain's biometrics watchdogs warned that oversight of AI-powered face scanning is lagging far behind the technology, with the Met scanning 1.7 million faces this year alone, up 87%. * An AI system used to predict healthcare contributions for millions of Kenyans systematically overcharged the poorest
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Three Courts Draw AI Lines - TCR 05/03/26
The 20-Second Scan * A Chinese intermediate court ruled that companies cannot use AI adoption as grounds for dismissing workers, upholding a ruling that ordered a tech firm to reinstate a quality assurance supervisor. * The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ruled that only performances "demonstrably performed by humans
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Pentagon Signs Seven, Excludes Anthropic - TCR 05/02/26
The 20-Second Scan * The Pentagon signed agreements with seven AI companies including OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, SpaceX, and Microsoft for military deployment under an "any lawful use" standard, with Anthropic excluded. * The UK AI Security Institute found GPT-5.5 matched Anthropic's restricted Mythos Preview on advanced cybersecurity
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Google Joins the Pentagon - TCR 04/28/26
The 20-Second Scan * Google signed a classified deal with the Pentagon allowing use of its AI models for "any lawful government purpose," 24 hours after 600+ Google employees signed a letter demanding Sundar Pichai block classified military AI use. * CATL signed a 60 GWh sodium-ion battery deal with