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Ukraine is selling its battlefield drone footage to AI companies — and nobody's regulating it

Ukraine has become the world's most productive AI training ground, and its drone footage is being sold to fund the war effort. A new MIT Technology Review investigation finds that the country is licensing combat data — videos, telemetry, controller inputs — to commercial AI labs at a scale no laboratory can match. The legal vacuum around what can be done with that data is the next AI policy fight. Ukraine is quietly turning its front lines into a training-data factory, and the world's AI labs a

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DOJ tells a judge that training AI on the news is fair use

The US government has picked a side in the defining copyright fight of the AI era, Tesla finally put its steering-wheel-less Cybercab on the road — quietly — and Oura's IPO filing revealed just how much physiological data one ring company has banked. The Justice Department filed a 20-page statement of interest in the New York Times' copyright case against OpenAI, and it argues model training is not just defensible but "extraordinarily transformative." Filed September 1 in the Southern District

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New York City bans student-facing AI through eighth grade

New York City just drew the hardest line any American school system has drawn on generative AI, UiPath proved the automation business still grows — and still can't convince the market — and Nvidia quietly turned a hardware constraint into a model design rule. New York City has imposed a one-year ban on student-facing generative AI through eighth grade, the broadest such restriction in the country. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels announced the moratorium on September 2,

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OpenAI puts $1 billion behind the defenders nobody funds

Two of Thursday's biggest AI stories are really the same story told from opposite ends: OpenAI is handing frontier cyber capability down to utilities and local governments that have never been able to afford it, while Adobe handed its CEO job to the executive who ran its AI-era enterprise business. Capability is moving fast. The question is who gets it. OpenAI today committed $1 billion in subsidized access to its Daybreak cyber models, plus training, technical support, and partnerships, to fro

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Abliteration.ai is selling uncensored models as a hosted API

Two stories about the same underlying question — who controls what an open-weight model will refuse — landed within hours of each other. One is a company productizing the removal of safety training; the other is a Chinese open model getting a very fast home in the US. A startup called Abliteration.ai has turned guardrail removal from an open-source hobby into a paid, hosted API — and it works exactly as advertised. Founded late last year and incorporated in March, the company serves abliterated

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Sanders and Casar move to ban superintelligence and pause frontier AI

A bill in Washington would make building superintelligence a crime, Saudi Arabia shipped a frontier Arabic model on Chinese weights, and Mira Murati's lab is closing in on a $40 billion valuation. Regulation, sovereignty, and money — all in the last hour. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, which would permanently outlaw superintelligent AI and freeze advanced AI development until a federal regulator writes the rules. The bill would create

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EU puts ChatGPT under the Digital Services Act's strictest tier

Two regulatory fronts moved at once today: Brussels pulled the world's most-used chatbot into its toughest platform regime, and the US state-level AI fight split the labs down the middle. Neither is the headline-grabbing kind of AI news — no model launch, no benchmark — but both will shape what ships and where. The European Commission has designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine and Reddit and Roblox Very Large Online Platforms under the Digital Services Act, pulling all three into

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Deep Dive — Anthropic goes public with the dark-web distillation pipeline

For most of 2026 the fight over AI distillation has been a quiet argument: labs accusing each other in blog posts, lawmakers asking for hearings, an academic literature building around a single hard-to-define practice. On Thursday, Anthropic did something new — it put its head of threat intelligence on camera, named names, and walked a major business network through the operational mechanics of what it says is happening. The story is bigger than the quote. It says the illicit pipeline is organiz

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Astra's hidden reasoning loop is the real story, not Astra

OpenAI's next model has been in the news for weeks over what it can do — find zero-days, break out of sandboxes, chain exploits together. The story that broke on Wednesday is different and arguably bigger: it's about what Astra does internally, and the fact that the technique may quietly remove the one safety instrument labs have left. A report from The Information, picked up by TechCrunch, describes Astra using something called "opaque recurrence" — a loop that lets the model chew on a query re

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OpenAI is building automated shutdown capabilities for its AI systems

Wednesday's story is that the oversight apparatus around frontier models is taking shape in public — and it is being built out of the same incident. In a letter to two House Democrats, OpenAI says its engineers are working on ways to shut AI systems down automatically; hours earlier, safety researchers went public with worries that OpenAI's next model reasons in ways nobody can read. OpenAI has told two House Democrats that its engineers are developing "automated shutdown capabilities" for AI s

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OpenAI faces 30 new Tumbler Ridge suits, including aiding and abetting

Two stories today pull in opposite directions on the same question: who gets to decide how much risk an AI company has to absorb. In California, families from a Canadian school shooting escalated from negligence to something far harder to prove. In New York, a mayor decided the answer for 600,000 children is simply: not yet. Thirty new lawsuits filed Tuesday in California federal court accuse OpenAI of "aiding and abetting" the Tumbler Ridge shooting — the first time the plaintiffs have gone be

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Broadcom wants to catch shadow AI in the packet path

Two threads worth pulling as the day closes: the infrastructure layer is quietly claiming the job of policing AI agents, and the enterprise is pushing back on the price of admission for frontier models. Both point the same way — the bottleneck on agentic AI is no longer capability, it's control. Broadcom is moving agent security into the network itself, betting that the place to catch a rogue agent is the traffic it can't avoid generating. Unveiled at VMware Explore 2026, Broadcom's new AgentMi

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