169 Nations, One Agenda: The UN's First Global AI Governance Dialogue Wraps Up in Geneva
The UN's first universal AI governance forum closed in Geneva on July 7, with Secretary-General Guterres proposing global safety standards, autonomous weapon limits, and a Global Fund for AI — but no binding enforcement power. »
California Gives Claude to Every State Agency at Half Price — The Biggest Government AI Deal in US History
Governor Newsom's June 29 deal with Anthropic puts Claude in every California state agency — and every city and county — at 50% off, with free training and a cybersecurity use case already live. »
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Arrives in Three Tiers — and the US Government Controls Who Gets Access First
OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna on June 26 — its most capable model family yet — but access is restricted to roughly 20 government-approved organizations, a precedent OpenAI itself says shouldn't become the norm. »
A24 Takes $75 Million From Google DeepMind to Build AI Tools for Filmmakers
The studio behind Everything Everywhere All At Once has struck a $75 million AI research deal with Google DeepMind — a bet that the best AI filmmaking tools will be built from inside a creative process, not imposed on it from outside. »
Podman 6.0 Is Out — CNI, cgroups v1, and iptables Are Gone for Good
Podman 6.0 cuts CNI, cgroups v1, iptables, and slirp4netns in one shot, adds AMD GPU support, enables network isolation by default, and patches a host environment variable leak. »