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US District Judge Donovan Frank denied a preliminary injunction in a 14-page order, finding xAI failed to show irreparable harm and that the state is within its rights (Courthouse News). The law took effect August 1, passed the Minnesota House 132-1 and the Senate 65-0, and empowers the AG to levy penalties up to $500,000 per violation. It's the first ruling against an AI lab's First Amendment challenge to a state model law. The exposure attaching to software developers, not only platforms, is the part anyone shipping image tooling should read closely.
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Judge Donovan Frank denied xAI's request to block Minnesota's ban on apps generating non-consensual sexualized images, letting it take effect August 1 while litigation continues. xAI argued the ban is "overinclusive" with "far less restrictive alternatives," but Frank leaned o...
Judge Rita Lin ruled August 27 that Defense Secretary Hegseth's designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk violated the First Amendment and Fifth Amendment due process, ordering the government to rescind all directives against the company (The Verge). Her 59-page opinion...
Anthropic's new permanent level indexes to 125 against a 100 baseline, but subscribers have been running at 150 since a temporary 50% boost announced May 13 was extended past July 13, July 19, August 31 and September 13. Both "25% up" and "17% down" are true from different ref...
Microsoft added model pinning and hiding plus a comparison view running the same prompt against two models, along with plan consumption visibility and premium model management so teams see quota burn before hitting it. Custom agents can be shared across an organization instead...
NVD published this against kazuph/mcp-fetch through 1.6.3 on August 26. isSafeUrl reads the hostname from the parsed URL, which for yields the bracketed string, then tests it with net.isIP, which returns zero for a bracketed value. The entire private-address branch is skipped,...
The core team released lemans on August 24 after deciding the Ruby community shouldn't have to run Python-based Harbor, and benchmarked four models on 63 Rails tasks (Rails). ox-alpha 52/63; Terra 49/63 at $0.20 and a 182-second median; open-weight Qwen 3.8-27B 48/63 but at a...
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