☕️ Anthropic sends top engineers to the White House

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🤝 Anthropic sends top engineers to the White House

⚠️ Microsoft CEO warns a few companies will grab all AI value

📵 UK officially bans social media for under-16s

📺 Fox makes a $22 billion play for your TV

🇨🇳 China vows payback after Pentagon blacklists its tech giants

Plus: 🎁 10 other news you might like, 🧰 6 tools, and 📚 5 papers.

🤝 Anthropic sends top engineers to the White House LINK

Anthropic dispatched senior staff to the White House on Sunday to reach a deal with the Trump Administration after a federal order forced the company to disable its flagship Claude models the previous Friday.

The export control order required that non-U.S. nationals be blocked from using Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, two "Mythos-class" models built on the same core technology as the unreleased Claude Mythos Preview.

The Trump Administration has been unsatisfied with Anthropic's handling of the jailbreak complaint, with the company reportedly failing to "engage in a serious manner" after officials raised the issue on Friday before the models went offline.

⚠️ Microsoft CEO warns a few companies will grab all AI value LINK

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has warned that a handful of AI providers could capture most of the economic value in the AI age, while entire industries risk losing ownership of their own knowledge and expertise.

In a post on X, Nadella argued that winners will not be those with the most advanced models, but companies that build their own learning system around their expertise, comparing frontier models to an engine and the vehicle built around it as the real differentiator.

He said every firm needs both human capital, meaning the knowledge and judgment of its people, and token capital, the AI it builds and owns, warning against repeating the outsourcing mistakes that hollowed out industrial economies during globalisation.

📵 UK officially bans social media for under-16s LINK

The UK is set to ban social media for under-16s, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying that "children will be given back their childhoods thanks to government action".

Following Australia's move in December 2025, the UK has promised "world-leading additional restrictions" on features like live streaming and strangers communicating with children, with the government saying it is "backed by 9 in 10 parents".

The legislation is expected to be brought before Parliament before Christmas and could then come into force in Spring 2027, locking teens out of popular social media apps.

📺 Fox makes a $22 billion play for your TV LINK

Fox is buying Roku in a $22 billion deal that gives the cable-reliant media company access to more than 100 million households on Roku's streaming platform, helping it target ads and cut reliance on traditional distribution.

The combined company would become the third-largest player in U.S. television by viewership, with Fox shareholders owning about 73% and Roku investors holding the rest after the deal closes in the first half of 2027.

Fox plans to fund the cash portion through new debt and cash on hand, backed by $12 billion in bridge financing from Morgan Stanley, with the merger expected to generate about $400 million in annual cost savings.

🇨🇳 China vows payback after Pentagon blacklists its tech giants LINK

China has warned the United States that it could retaliate after the Pentagon added major Chinese companies, including Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and NIO, to a list tied to Beijing's military.

The updated Section 1260H list, which US law requires the Defense Department to refresh yearly through 2030, also names solar panel makers Trina Solar and JA Solar Technology, and companies can submit evidence to challenge the label.

Alibaba said there was "no basis" for its inclusion, noting the 1260H list does not automatically ban exports or block American customers, unlike the Commerce Department's separate Entity List that limits access to US technology.

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📚 Trending papers & reports

Bitcoin and Ethereum's quantum threat is real but manageable, with roughly a one-in-six chance of a capable quantum computer arriving by 2035, and the biggest obstacle to fixing it being political will, not technology.LINK

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