Prashant Jha is a senior correspondent at Fathom, covering AI policy and governance. His beat is the rules and the people writing them: the EU AI Act and its enforcement deadlines, executive orders, export controls, antitrust and copyright litigation, and the widening gap between how quickly governments legislate and how quickly the technology they are legislating changes. He reads the text of the regulation rather than the summary of it, and reports on compliance as an operational problem for the companies involved rather than an abstract one. He is particularly interested in enforcement, on the view that a rule with no case brought under it tells you far less than the first case does, and in the geopolitics of who is permitted to buy which chips.
Cultural Data. Artprice named 10 AI models in a new authorship campaign, shifting the copyright fight toward paid archives, database rights and traceable training data.
Anthropic said it will place 5% of its shares into a new public benefit fund, creating a permanent governance pool tied to the lab’s stated mission.
Hugging Face compute is nearing $1 billion in shared training value as more than 30 labs upload open-weight models and absorb AI’s biggest cost.
Visa moved stablecoin-powered payments from pilot to production, with Inyo Global the first processor letting clients prefund cross-border payouts in USDC.
Epoch AI's Cyber ECI benchmark finds open-weight models trail closed frontier systems by six to seven months, with Zai's GLM-5.3 leading open models.
agentic creative tools: Adobe expanded its Nvidia partnership Thursday to speed agentic AI features in Photoshop, Premiere, Substance 3D, Frame.io and Firefly tools.
Google Quantum AI demonstrated magic state cultivation on physical hardware for the first time, a step toward fault-tolerant quantum computing.
Xbox launched Xbox Labs on Oct. 13 to study AI-made game ports and mods after a wave of decompiled titles like Halo running in browsers.
A hotter-than-expected CPI report sent the S&P 500 and Nasdaq down more than 1% on Oct. 13, deepening a selloff in Nvidia and other AI-linked stocks.
Anthropic opened a Singapore office, its fifth in Asia-Pacific, and signed a government memorandum on AI safety and responsible adoption.