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A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration's blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal, a significant legal rebuke that clears the AI company's path to government contracts and raises broader questions about how Washington wields procurement power against the technology sector.
That same company is now pushing into physical territory, unveiling a proposed standard called the Model Hardware Standard, designed to let AI agents operate real-world machines and laboratory equipment. It echoes the architecture of Anthropic's earlier Model Context Protocol, though critics note the company still struggles to fully predict how its own models behave.
Meanwhile, Waymo has published lessons drawn from driving two hundred million autonomous miles, a number that represents not just engineering progress but a genuine dataset about how machines handle the unpredictable texture of real roads, real weather, and real human error.
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