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Microsoft: every development we track
8 developments and 6 rules, in date order. Built automatically from every development involving this organisation.
- OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle and MGX launch $500bn Stargate data-centre venture
It set the gigawatt scale that every other frontier lab, chip supplier and utility has since had to plan around.
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- Microsoft cuts an Israeli defence unit's access to Azure storage and AI services
A cloud and AI vendor enforced its acceptable-use terms against a government military customer, a precedent for how commercial AI providers can limit battlefield and intelligence use.
- EBU-BBC study finds almost half of AI assistant news answers have a significant flaw
It gives publishers and regulators cross-market evidence that AI assistants are an unreliable route to news, feeding demands for attribution, licensing and accuracy duties.
- Rule · In forceINTLInternational network of AI safety/security institutes
- Anthropic withholds Claude Mythos Preview, gives it to defenders via Project Glasswing
It was the first time a leading lab gated a frontier model on cyber-offence grounds and steered it to patching critical software first, setting the pattern for later restricted releases.
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- US CAISI signs national-security testing deals with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, xAI
It extended government pre-deployment testing beyond OpenAI and Anthropic, making a federal check on frontier models routine without a licensing regime.
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- US moves UAE into top export tier, opening licence-free AI chips to approved users
It codifies the approved-entity model for exporting the US AI stack to partners, and lawyers expect it to be the template for any other Gulf or strategic partner given similar treatment.
- US Justice Department backs OpenAI's fair-use defence in New York Times case
The federal government has formally put its weight behind AI developers on training-data fair use just as the leading US news case reaches summary judgment.
- OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, first model it rates 'Critical' for cyber capability
It is the first model OpenAI has released at the 'Critical' top level of its own cyber-risk scale, testing whether deployment safeguards alone can contain that capability.
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