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COPPA 2.0 passes the Senate again, unanimously this time

Anna Washenko / engadget - Today the US Senate unanimously passed proposed legislation known as COPPA 2.0. This measure, fully named the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act, aims to create new protections for younger users online, such as blocking platforms from colle…


Across Asia: governments moving to ban under-16s on social media

Indonesia outlines plan to limit under-16s’ access to social media

15 hrs / techcrunch / Kate Park

India’s Karnataka signals intent to ban social media for under-16s

15 hrs / techcrunch / Jagmeet Singh

Indonesia will ban social media for children under 16, communication minister says

16 hrs / abcnews

Big Asian social media markets step up ban on access for under-16s

18 hrs / ft

Karnataka To Ban Social Media For Children Below 16

22 hrs / inc42 / Shrishti Bisht


On Capitol Hill: federal push for tougher kids' online rules

Lawmakers just advanced online safety laws that require age verification at the app store

30 hrs / theverge / Emma Roth

COPPA 2.0 passes the Senate again, unanimously this time

31 hrs / engadget / Anna Washenko

House GOP Moves Ahead with Kids Online Safety Package as Democrats Balk

32 hrs / techpolicy


Privacy and household risks: broader concerns beyond regulation

The household cyber risk no one talks about

24 hrs / e27 / Sainul

Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online | The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship

35 hrs / reddit / /u/Hrmbee


Tech reality check: how age verification will actually work

US state laws push age checks into the operating system

14 hrs / theregister / Liam Proven

GTA Online players in Australia will soon face age checks under new R18+ gaming rules

16 hrs / techspot

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OpenAI’s Pentagon deal once again calls Sam Altman’s credibility into question

Mark Sullivan / fastcompany - Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week via email here.Familiar tensions around Sam AltmanOpenAI CEO Sam Altman voiced his s…


Canada safety row: Altman agrees immediate AI safety steps

OpenAI sets new safety standards following Solomon meeting and pressure over Tumbler Ridge response

32 hrs / betakit / Alex Riehl

OpenAI Commits to Stronger AI Safety Standards for Canada

34 hrs / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

Canadian government says OpenAI will take further steps to strengthen safety protocols

36 hrs / engadget / Lawrence Bonk


GPT-5.4 launch: OpenAI teases powerful model, seeks a win

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with computer vision, tool use enhancements

29 hrs / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

OpenAI releases GPT-5.4 model on ChatGPT and Codex

29 hrs / testingcatalog / Alexey Shabanov

OpenAI releases GPT-5.4 with more “professional work” skills

32 hrs / sherwood / Jon Keegan

OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 focuses on real work like spreadsheets, documents, and coding

32 hrs / betanews / Wayne Williams

OpenAI introduces GPT-5.4 with more knowledge work capability

32 hrs / arstechnica / Samuel Axon

GPT-5.4 Is Here: OpenAI’s ‘Most Capable and Efficient’ Model for Professional Work

33 hrs / eweek / Aminu Abdullahi

OpenAI Ships GPT-5.4

33 hrs / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

OpenAI’s new GPT-5.4 model makes ChatGPT better at handling your complex, multi-step workflows

33 hrs / digitaltrends

OpenAI, in Desperate Need of a Win, Launches GPT-5.4

33 hrs / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4 Days Just After Last Version as 'QuitGPT' Exodus Gains Steam

33 hrs / decrypt / Jose Antonio Lanz

OpenAI Unveils GPT-5.4: New Financial Analysis Tools Hit Excel and Google Sheets

34 hrs / parameter / Trader Edge

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 Thinking and Pro combining coding, reasoning, and computer use in one model

34 hrs / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4 With Native Computer Control and 1M Token Context [Video]

34 hrs / iclarified

OpenAI Releases New GPT-5.4 Flagship Model

34 hrs / thurrott / Laurent Giret

OpenAI Stopped Selling Intelligence. GPT-5.4 Sells Labor Instead.

34 hrs / implicator / Marcus Schuler

OpenAI Releases New ChatGPT Model For Working In Excel and Google Sheets

34 hrs / slashdot / BeauHD

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4 With Built-In Computer Use and 1 Million Token Context Window

35 hrs / implicator / Marcus Schuler

New ChatGPT 5.4 Model Is 'Built for Agents.' Will It Lure Back Claude Converts?

35 hrs / cnet / Katelyn Chedraoui

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with Pro and Thinking versions

35 hrs / techcrunch / Russell Brandom

OpenAI’s new GPT-5.4 model is a big step toward autonomous agents

35 hrs / theverge / Emma Roth

I hope you like spreadsheets, because GPT-5.4 loves them

35 hrs / engadget / Igor Bonifacic

OpenAI Teases GPT-5.4 with Cryptic Post — and the Upgrades Could Be Massive

36 hrs / eweek / Aminu Abdullahi


OTHER: governance, tooling, and industry ripple effects

RecordPoint Adds MCP Server to Centralize Governance of AI Agents

33 hrs / techstrong / Mike Vizard

GPT 5.4 Thinking and Pro

35 hrs / ycombinator

GPT-5.4 Thinking and GPT-5.4 Pro

35 hrs / ycombinator

GPT-5.4 Thinking System Card

35 hrs / ycombinator


Pentagon deal fallout: Altman's credibility on the line

Nvidia Is Probably Done Investing in OpenAI and Anthropic, Says CEO—Why?

30 hrs / decrypt / Jose Antonio Lanz

‘Uncanny Valley’: Iran War in the AI Era, Prediction Market Ethics, and Paramount Beats Netflix

31 hrs / wired / Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger

OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway

31 hrs / wired / Maxwell Zeff

Sam Altman Wants Elected Officials, Not OpenAI, to Decide How Military Uses AI

34 hrs / wsj / Berber Jin

OpenAI’s Pentagon deal once again calls Sam Altman’s credibility into question

35 hrs / fastcompany / Mark Sullivan

OpenAI's Altman takes jabs at Anthropic, says government should be more powerful than companies

36 hrs / cnbc


All Other Stories

In which @ellamarkianos.bsky.social attends a protest at OpenAI and finds an anti-movement gradually gathering steam. A fun story, given the stakes www.platformer.news/openai-prote...

25 hrs / bsky / @caseynewton.bsky.social / caseynewton.bsky.social

In which Ella Markianos attends a protest at OpenAI and finds an anti-movement gradually gathering steam. A fun story, given the stakes https://www.platformer.news/openai-protest-military-ai-movement/

25 hrs / bsky / @caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy / caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4 to Automate Complex Professional Work

27 hrs / pymnts / PYMNTS

Inside the backlash to the AI war machine

28 hrs / platformer / Ella Markianos

In this episode, our hosts unpack the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, particularly as the AI industry has been entrenching itself with the Department of Defense. www.wired.com/story/uncann...

28 hrs / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

Sources allege the Defense Department experimented with Microsoft’s version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications. www.wired.com/story/openai...

28 hrs / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

www.wired.com/story/openai...

28 hrs / bsky / @tepski.tech / tepski.tech

Huge scoop from @mzeff.bsky.social: Sources say the DoD used Microsoft’s version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications www.wired.com/story/openai...

28 hrs / bsky / @laurengoode.bsky.social / laurengoode.bsky.social

In 2023, OpenAI’s usage policy explicitly banned the military from accessing its AI models. But some OpenAI employees discovered the Pentagon had already started experimenting with Azure OpenAI, a version of OpenAI’s models offered by Microsoft, sources s

28 hrs / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

That same year, OpenAI employees saw Pentagon officials walking through the company’s San Francisco offices, leaving employees confused about what OpenAI’s usage policies meant. Did the policy apply to Microsoft? OpenAI says now that it didn’t.

28 hrs / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

OpenAI’s latest Pentagon deal divided employees. While CEO Sam Altman said publicly he supported certain red lines—to not allow its AI to be used for legal mass surveillance or the development of autonomous weapons—the company’s agreement appeared to leav

28 hrs / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

“Our ability to understand the effects of military AI in war is and will be severely hindered due to layers of opacity,” said the former head of OpenAI’s geopolitics team in a Substack post. “It’s black boxes all the way down.” Read the full story: www.w

28 hrs / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

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28 hrs / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

Introducing GPT‑5.4

29 hrs / simonwillison / Simon Willison

GPT-5.4: reasoning benchmarks flat, professional work +12pts. OpenAI pivoted from selling intelligence to selling labor. Input tokens up 43% to $2.50/M. Classic enterprise play #AI #OpenAI https://www.implicator.ai/openai-stopped-selling-intelligence-gpt-

31 hrs / bsky / @marcus-schuler.com / marcus-schuler.com

GPT-5.4 is billed as "our most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work."

31 hrs / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Sam Altman’s abrupt Pentagon announcement brings protesters to HQ

34 hrs / reddit / /u/abrownn

If the original "Terminator" movie had a prequel...could this be the origin story of Skynet? www.cnbc.com/2026/03/05/o... via @ashleycapoot.cnbc.com @cnbc.com

34 hrs / bsky / @thedomino.bsky.social / thedomino.bsky.social

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Anthropic Returns to Negotiations With Pentagon Over AI Guardrails

PYMNTS / pymnts - Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei has resumed discussions with the Pentagon over how the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) models can be used by the U.S. military, reopening negotiations that collapsed last week over disagreements about safety r…


Amodei lashes out at OpenAI in leaked staff memos

Anthropic CEO Calls OpenAI Pentagon Messaging ‘Lies’

32 hrs / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Calls OpenAI's Messaging Around Military Deal 'Straight Up Lies'

36 hrs / slashdot / BeauHD

Amodei torches OpenAI in leaked memo

42 hrs / therundown / Zach Mink


Back at the table: Anthropic resumes Pentagon negotiations

OpenAI Rewrites Contract, Anthropic Returns to Negotiate—The Chaos Continues

31 hrs / techdirt / Mike Masnick

Not so fast: Anthropic and US military might do business after all

35 hrs / mashable

Anthropic Returns to Negotiations With Pentagon Over AI Guardrails

36 hrs / pymnts / PYMNTS

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei could still be trying to make a deal with Pentagon

36 hrs / techcrunch / Amanda Silberling


Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk, escalates conflict

Anthropic labelled a supply chain risk by Pentagon

32 hrs / bbc

It’s official: The Pentagon has labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk

33 hrs / techcrunch / Rebecca Bellan

Pentagon Formally Labels Anthropic Supply-Chain Risk

34 hrs / ycombinator

Anthropic officially told by DOD that it's a supply chain risk even as Claude used in Iran

34 hrs / cnbc

Pentagon Formally Labels Anthropic Supply-Chain Risk, Escalating Conflict

34 hrs / wsj / Amrith Ramkumar


Wider debate: AI guardrails, industry impact and lessons

The year of Anthropic

33 hrs / qz / Jackie Snow

Each month it seems like there's more – with higher stakes – to talk about w/ @kantrowitz.bsky.social... • Anthropic v. the US Government • Apple's AI Wearable Future • Netflix Walks Away from Warner Bros https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzhr1_MwmBk

35 hrs / bsky / @mgsiegler.com

Lessons from Anthropic’s battle with the Pentagon

35 hrs / ft


All Other Stories

Smart businesses don’t adapt to crony capitalism

31 hrs / fastcompany / Daniella Ballou-Aares

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