A U.S. federal judge has ruled that the Pentagon acted unlawfully when it designated artificial intelligence company Anthropic as a “supply-chain risk,” handing the Claude maker a major legal victory in its escalating dispute with the Trump administration. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin ruled Thursday that the government’s decision violated Anthropic’s constitutional rights and was not supported by a legitimate national security justification. The 59-page ruling found that the

Meta has agreed to pay up to $18 billion to settle a landmark U.S. case accusing Facebook and Instagram of deliberately designing their platforms to keep children and teenagers hooked. The agreement, reached this week as a major trial was underway in California, brings one of the biggest legal challenges to Meta’s business to an abrupt end. It also forces the company to make some of its most significant changes yet to how young people use its platforms. Meta does not admit wr

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded its UK cloud infrastructure with the addition of a fourth Availability Zone to its Europe (London) Region, giving businesses greater capacity for artificial intelligence, machine learning and other demanding workloads. The new Availability Zone, identified as eu-west-2d, increases the number of Availability Zones available to AWS customers in the London Region from three to four. AWS announced the expansion on August 19, 2026, describing

Alphabet subsidiary Waymo has published the hardware architecture of its onboard compute stack, revealing a custom 5-nanometer Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) designed in-house to power its next-generation driverless vehicles. The custom silicon, manufactured by TSMC, delivers over 1,000 TOPS (trillions of operations per second) of machine learning performance. While initial market reports framed the chip as a total replacement for third-party silicon, Waymo co

6. AI Beijing-based generative AI startup Moonshot AI has officially launched its highly anticipated flagship model, Kimi K3. The massive rollout marks the arrival of the world’s first open-weight model in the coveted three-trillion-parameter tier, establishing a direct, highly disruptive challenge to premium, closed-source Western models like Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5. Boasting a staggering 2.8 trillion total parameters, Kimi K3 represents the single l