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The Pentagon has signed AI deals with seven major tech companies, notably leaving Anthropic off the list. It's a striking signal about how the Defense Department is thinking about AI partnerships — prioritizing scale and established relationships over newer, safety-focused players, and raising real questions about what values get built into military systems.
Shifting to the roads, California is moving to ticket driverless cars that break traffic laws, and the details matter. Rather than fining the companies directly, citations will go to the registered owner — which in most cases is the robotaxi operator. It's an attempt to hold autonomous vehicles to the same legal standards as human drivers, and it could set a national precedent for accountability in self-driving regulation.
And on the quieter side of the news feed, a developer has released a Mac browser designed to serve both human users and AI coding agents simultaneously, offering local APIs that let automated tools navigate the web alongside you. It's a small project right now, but it gestures at something bigger — a future where our software is built for two kinds of users at once.
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