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Technology policy, regulation, government action, digital rights, platform rules, AI governance, cybersecurity policy, privacy law, and public-sector decisions affecting technology and the internet.
Apple-Intel Chip Claim Puts Intel Foundry’s 18A-P Test in Public View
President Trump says Apple has agreed to work with Intel on U.S.-made chips, but Apple and Intel have not announced a signed foundry deal. The real test is whether Intel’s 18A-P process can move from risk production to Apple-grade yield, volume, and product trust.
ASML Denies EUV Machine Reached China as U.S. Chip Controls Tighten
U.S. officials reportedly raised concerns that ASML EUV-related equipment may have reached China, a claim ASML denies. The dispute shows why chipmaking tools, servicing, and allied export controls are becoming central to the AI hardware race.
Meta Expands Teen Accounts With AI Age Checks and Parent Alerts
Meta is rolling out 13+ Teen Account defaults across Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger while using AI age assurance to find younger users who list adult birthdays. The update shows how teen safety is becoming a platform enforcement system, not just a parental-control setting.
Google DeepMind’s AI Control Roadmap Treats Agents Like Insider Threats
Google DeepMind released an AI Control Roadmap for securing powerful internal AI agents. The plan borrows from cybersecurity, maps rogue-agent tactics to a MITRE ATT&CK-style taxonomy, and lays out detection and response tiers for systems that may soon act faster than human reviewers can supervise.
FERC Gives AI Data Centers a Faster Path to the Grid
FERC ordered six regional grid operators to justify or revise their rules for connecting data centers and other large power users. The move could speed AI infrastructure projects, but it puts cost allocation, flexible loads, and state oversight under a sharper deadline.
Accenture’s Dragos Deal Puts OT Security on an AI Threat Clock
Accenture agreed to take a majority stake in Dragos and buy runZero and NetRise, creating a $4.175 billion bet on operational technology security as AI and geopolitical risk push industrial systems onto the cybersecurity agenda.
Security Leaders Say the Fable 5 Ban Could Hurt Cyber Defense
An open letter from cybersecurity leaders asks the U.S. government to lift export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5, arguing that the disputed capability overlaps with normal defensive bug fixing and should be handled through transparent AI risk reviews.
G7 AI Summit Turns Model Access Into a Sovereignty Fight
AI leaders are gathering at the G7 in France as Europe, Canada, and other allies question how much critical AI infrastructure should depend on U.S. model labs, cloud providers, chips, and export-control decisions.
Google’s $1.5B Alabama Data Center Expansion Puts AI Power Costs on Display
Google is spending $1.5 billion to expand its Jackson County, Alabama data center campus while promising to cover its own power and infrastructure costs. The deal shows how AI infrastructure growth is becoming a fight over electricity bills, grid upgrades, nuclear power, and local energy programs.
AI Preemption Is Being Pulled Into the Kids’ Online Safety Fight
Washington’s AI preemption push is now tangled with KOSA, age verification, AI-companion rules, and digital-replica policy. That makes a national AI law more politically tempting and more complicated for platforms, AI companies, and states.