Google switches Gemini and Search off by default for K-12 students
Google will disable Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom, and Search for K-12 accounts until school admins explicitly turn them on.
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Google will disable Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom, and Search for K-12 accounts until school admins explicitly turn them on.
Anthropic has handed Agent Skills to the AAIF under the Linux Foundation, giving the standard a vendor-neutral home alongside MCP.
Anthropic has given six METR staff internal access to its models and safety data: and cannot block what they publish.
Anthropic's annual policy refresh consolidates deception rules, adds physical-action controls for agentic Claude, and bans sustained model abuse.
A DC Circuit ruling on 26 September 2026 lets the Pentagon keep Anthropic out of its AI supply chain for refusing to remove Claude's weapons and surveillance limits.
The three leading frontier labs are creating FASA, an industry self-regulatory body modelled on FINRA, targeting launch by end-2026 or early 2027.
Anthropic's first R&D Automation Index shows Claude autonomously leads 26% of its AI research as of August 2026, up from under 1% in February.
Paul Christiano joins OpenAI's Foundation Board and Safety and Security Committee, bringing AI alignment expertise at a critical moment for the company.
Anthropic's Compliance API now connects Claude Enterprise to 28 security platforms including Palo Alto Networks, Rubrik, Okta, and Sumo Logic.
Anthropic has published a five-priority research agenda for its $200M Economic Futures Research Fund, targeting AI-driven worker displacement.
Anthropic walked back a covert policy that quietly limited Claude Fable 5's usefulness for frontier LLM development tasks, without telling users.
A Commerce Department directive citing national security concerns forced Anthropic to suspend all access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally.
Anthropic's restricted Claude Mythos 5 shares its architecture with Fable 5 but ships without cybersecurity guardrails, deployed via Project Glasswing with the US government.
OpenAI's Lockdown Mode, a security setting that blocks live web access and agentic features to defend against prompt injection, is now available to all personal ChatGPT plans.
Anthropic reveals Claude authored 80%+ of its merged codebase by May 2026 and calls for international coordination before AI can fully design its own successors.
Microsoft Agent 365 is now GA at $15/user/month, with preview tools to discover and manage shadow AI agents running on employee devices.