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US Plugs the Chip Leak to China - TCR 06/01/26
A year-old loophole sent hundreds of thousands of top Nvidia chips to Chinese firms abroad before Washington closed the gap, as open models spread.
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Frontier AI Goes Local and Free - TCR 05/31/26
Open-weight models that rival proprietary AI now run offline on a $400 laptop, a cancer injection erases tumours, and SoftBank commits €75B to France.
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Token Cost Crosses Labor Cost - TCR 05/30/26
Fortune 500 AI budgets exhaust in two months as per-token cost crosses human labor, Texas registry shows Waymo at 577 versus Tesla's 42 unsupervised robotaxis.
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Anthropic Becomes Most Valuable AI Lab - TCR 05/29/26
Anthropic surpasses OpenAI at $965B, ships Opus 4.8 with honesty controls, and timetables Mythos-class cyber-defense for all customers within weeks.
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Illinois Mandates AI Safety Audits - TCR 05/28/26
Illinois mandates third-party AI safety audits, Biohub open-sources its protein-biology stack, Robinhood hands AI agents brokerage and credit-card keys.
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BadHost Cracks the Agent Substrate - TCR 05/27/26
A one-character Starlette flaw imperils millions of AI agents, an AI detector reads 46% of the Pope's AI encyclical as machine-written, and Louisiana land deals surface.
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DHS Targets "Anti-Tech Extremism" - TCR 05/26/26
DHS and FBI flag "anti-tech violent extremism," agentic AI floods bug bounties, Uber burns its 2026 AI budget by April, and Anthropic joins the Vatican.
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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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AI Matches Top Human Forecasters - TCR 05/24/26
A frontier AI matched professional superforecasters, Qwen ran 35 unattended hours, and AI surfaced 5,000 PFAS-stripping molecules.
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Samsung Chip Workers Win $340K Bonuses - TCR 05/23/26
Samsung chip workers won $340K bonuses as Standard Chartered's CEO apologized for "lower-value human capital" and the NTSB shut its docket.
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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.