Anthropic Is Street Legal Again

A judge blocked the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic, calling the retaliation illegal. OpenAI, Anthropic and 100+ companies warned the AI cyberattack window is closing, Apple TV got pricier again, Stripe walked from PayPal, and a16z raised $1.1B for hardware. Links A US judge blocks the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic, ruling that its designation as a supply-chain risk was "illegal and baseless" (Reuters) Judge Rita Lin finds the administration violated Anthropic's First Amendment rights, acting in "unlawful retaliation" for its criticism, and orders the blacklisting guidance rescinded (The Wall Street Journal) OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ companies warn there is "a limited window" to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks and call for "collective action" (Axios) The open letter asks AI labs to hand their best models to hospitals and infrastructure providers and governments to coordinate and fund cyberdefense; signatories include Google, CrowdStrike, Visa, and Mastercard (The New York Times) Apple TV raises prices in the US, with the monthly price up by $2 to $14.99, its fourth increase in four years; the individual Apple One tier rises $2 to $21.95 (Variety) Sources: Advent and Stripe are no longer pursuing a deal to acquire PayPal; the group offered to pay $60.50/share in July, valuing PayPal at $53B (Bloomberg) a16z creates a $1.1B Machine Age fund focusing on hardware to "open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI" (TechCrunch) Anthropic details Model Hardware Standard, a framework governing how AI agents interact with microscopes, liquid handlers, quantum hardware, and robot arms, going to trusted partners first (Wired) Longreads Home batteries are suddenly cheap and everywhere. Here's why. (TechCrunch) Subscribe to the ad-free feed.