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A federal judge has handed Anthropic a significant legal victory, blocking the Pentagon's attempt to blacklist the AI company as a supply chain risk. The court ruled the designation was, in its words, illegal and baseless — a striking rebuke of the Defense Department, which had sought to use Anthropic's Claude models for autonomous weapons and surveillance applications.
Shifting to the financial side of AI, Meta's India head Sandhya Devanathan is leaving the social media giant to join OpenAI, where she'll oversee operations across Southeast Asia and Australia. The move comes as Meta faces growing regulatory scrutiny in India, and signals just how aggressively OpenAI is building out its executive bench in high-growth markets.
And in energy, smaller modular nuclear reactors are moving from concept toward commercial reality, with a growing number of projects suggesting the technology may finally be closing the gap between nuclear power's long-standing promise and its actual delivery. Proponents argue the reduced scale lowers both cost and construction time considerably.
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