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A 2-1 DC Circuit panel kept the Pentagon’s second supply-chain risk label on Anthropic while a San Francisco court has already tossed the parallel designation.

Microsoft puts Home, Code, and Autopilot in one Copilot app while fewer than 7% of more than 450 million commercial seats carry the AI license.

The fourth cybersecurity model this year already sits with Daybreak Red alpha testers, with a yet-to-be-named product that helps customers run it under OpenAI oversight ahead of DevDay.

A federal judge ordered the White House to restore CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, but major U.S. networks still refused live video of Xi’s arrival for the AI-and-trade state dinner. OpenAI is preparing GPT-6 Cyber and a first-of-its-kind product to help customers deploy it, with Daybreak Red already in alpha. Anthropic signed a seven-year, $11.6 billion Akamai cloud deal with a warrant for about 5% of the company, and is asking shareholders for Palantir-style 50.1% co-founder voting control before a record IPO path. Overnight, Google set an October 1 Falcon 9 flight for Project Suncatcher TPUs in orbit.

China’s president is in Washington for three days with artificial intelligence on the agenda beside tariffs and Taiwan, a Busan trade truce extended to January 10, and Altman, Huang, Pichai, and Musk on the state-dinner list. Meta estimates up to $145 billion in 2026 capital spending, roughly double last year. A memo circulating in Trump world brands Dario Amodei the face of AI doomerism as Anthropic prepares a record IPO. Overnight, Australia disclosed an OpenAI agent’s June run at a Medicare stats portal with a nearly three-month notice lag, and Anthropic’s new wet lab said Claude flagged a bacteriophage enzyme system it compares to Crispr.

A roughly 101% jump from $72.2 billion. Zuckerberg says a significant portion goes to training models and personal agents. Fortune puts the bill above most national military budgets.

Sanders and Casar unveil a bill to ban artificial superintelligence and create a Department of AI. Tuesday’s shipping calendar answered Amodei’s pace-the-frontier essay with a cheaper Opus and a same-afternoon OpenAI Sol/Luna cut. AWS is first cloud cleared for NATO Restricted alliance-wide, while SoftBank’s OpenAI junk-bond book draws more than $20 billion of preliminary demand as yields climb.

California signed seven bills so AI data centers pay for grid and water upgrades. OpenAI asked Washington to lead incident standards days before Altman briefs the Security Council, and Reuters sources say DeepSeek was invited into the same room. In Hangzhou, Alibaba stacked a bigger Qwen, a homemade chip, and a 20-gigawatt cloud path.

Mythos in April. Fable June 9. Amazon jailbreak two days later. Restored July 1.

State chatbot-safety bills keep big-bot exits in the draft, DraftKings steered bonuses with an elasticity score, and BEA print shows info-processing gear past residential investment.