Nº 116
AI REGULATION
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31 JUL 2026
OpenAI and Anthropic Endorsed a Slowdown Neither Has Started
A letter signed by 1,268 frontier lab employees asks Washington to build the tools for a coordinated AI slowdown. Both labs backed it inside a day.
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Nº 115
31 JUL 2026
The Service That Broke Xbox for 16 Hours Is Called Entitlement
An external licensing service failed late on July 26 and took sign-ins, libraries, and game launches with it. Disc owners were locked out too.
4 MIN READ
Nº 114
31 JUL 2026
The FCC Banned Robot Dogs. The Inverters Are the Story.
The FCC blocked new imports of foreign humanoids, quadrupeds, and power inverters on July 28. Two of those barely exist here; the third runs the grid.
4 MIN READ
Nº 113
31 JUL 2026
The Most Powerful Model You Can Download Is Chinese and Free
Moonshot published Kimi K3's full weights on July 27: 2.8 trillion parameters, 1.56 terabytes, no per-token bill. Chip stocks noticed the same day.
4 MIN READ
Nº 112
31 JUL 2026
Only One Committee Stands Between EA and Riyadh
Brussels cleared the $55 billion Saudi buyout of EA on July 23, then cleared it again on subsidies July 30. CFIUS has until September 28.
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Nº 111
27 JUL 2026
Google Won’t Train on Your Inbox. Just the Summary.
Google says it doesn't train AI models on your Gmail or Drive. It does train on the summaries, excerpts, and inferences drawn from them.
4 MIN READ
Nº 110
27 JUL 2026
Sony Gave the Disc an Expiration Date
Sony will stop producing discs for new PlayStation games in January 2028. A petition against it has passed 330,000 signatures and is still climbing.
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