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Microsoft's Reported Loughton Exit Leaves 92% of a UK GPU Pledge Adrift Meta Q3 Earnings Oct. 21: The Capex, Ads and Cash Numbers to Watch Anthropic's 5% Pledge Is Worth About US$48B. Here's the Fine Print Commons AI Study Meets Parliament's Interpreter Math: 44 Passes in 5 Years CNN All Access Canada Price Is CA$7.99. Americans Pay About 23% More DeepSeek Federal Ban: DHS Order Also Covers Apps Built on Its Models Google Magic State Cultivation Explained: What Willow Fixed, What It Didn't Microsoft's Reported Loughton Exit Leaves 92% of a UK GPU Pledge Adrift Meta Q3 Earnings Oct. 21: The Capex, Ads and Cash Numbers to Watch Anthropic's 5% Pledge Is Worth About US$48B. Here's the Fine Print Commons AI Study Meets Parliament's Interpreter Math: 44 Passes in 5 Years CNN All Access Canada Price Is CA$7.99. Americans Pay About 23% More DeepSeek Federal Ban: DHS Order Also Covers Apps Built on Its Models Google Magic State Cultivation Explained: What Willow Fixed, What It Didn't

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Microsoft’s Reported Loughton Exit Leaves 92% of a UK GPU Pledge Adrift

Nscale's September 2025 plan promised up to 58,640 Nvidia GPUs in Britain. The two projects behind 54,040 of them, Microsoft's Loughton supercomputer…

Felix Strauss Oct 22, 2026 · 5 min

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Commons AI Study Meets Parliament’s Interpreter Math: 44 Passes in 5 Years

MPs on the procedure committee questioned the Clerk and Canada's conference interpreters on Oct. 20. A March federal briefing shows 99 accredited…

Felix Strauss Oct 21, 2026 · 5 min

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CMA Says Microsoft Earns 70% Returns. Copilot Is in Its Sights

The CMA's proposed decision puts Copilot, Cowork and Agent 365 inside a strategic market status designation and finds Microsoft's UK business software…

Felix Strauss Oct 20, 2026 · 6 min

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Ofcom X Grok Investigation Moves to a Breach Decision as Hate Posts Linger

X now reviews reported hate and terror posts within its agreed deadlines, but Ofcom says it still doubts they are coming down.…

Felix Strauss Oct 15, 2026 · 5 min

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North Korean IT Workers’ Laptop Farms: 40+ Texas Homes Raided, 14 Charged

The Justice Department says the scheme reached more than 70 U.S. employers and earned about US$3 million. Two Americans accused of hosting…

Jeff Cameron Oct 14, 2026 · 5 min

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CMS Slack Steered OpenAI and Anthropic to an Unlisted FDA Chatbot Meeting

KFF Health News found a 1,700-member CMS chat room where tech vendors press Medicare officials on access to patients' records. Legal experts…

Priya Natarajan Oct 13, 2026 · 6 min

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Meta Pixel at the Supreme Court: Salazar v. Paramount Explained

On Oct. 14 the justices decide whether a free newsletter makes you a video "consumer" under a 1988 privacy law. The answer…

Jeff Cameron · 7 min

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UK AI Security Plan: Model Tests Return as Narayan Eyes AI Cyber Law

The White House has dropped a request that kept Anthropic's Mythos 5.1 from British testers. Ministers now want AI loss of control…

Felix Strauss · 6 min

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Beijing Warns Officials Off ‘Blind Investment’ in AI and High Tech

Guidelines from China's Communist Party and State Council published on Oct. 9 order a full AI rollout across industry, and promise to…

Jeff Cameron Oct 11, 2026 · 5 min

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AI Safety Hearing: MPs Will Question OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta on 13 Oct

The Commons Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee wants the four AI developers and the AI Security Institute to say on Tuesday…

Theo Wright · 5 min