Australia’s world-first data centre rules need every state to agree. Two just said no.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s proposed national environmental and energy controls for the country’s A$150 billion data centre pipeline hit their first obstacle on Tuesday, when two [...]

China’s robot traffic police can do almost everything except stop you

China’s robot traffic police can direct cars, scold jaywalkers, and give a lost tourist directions to the nearest metro station. What they cannot do is stop anybody, and that limitation is written i [...]

Judge signs off on Anthropic’s $1.5bn book piracy settlement, the biggest in US copyright history

A federal judge in San Francisco has signed off on Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement with authors who accused the company of training its Claude models on pirated books, closing what lawyers on bo [...]

Thomson Reuters built its own model on a Chinese open base

Thomson Reuters launched its first proprietary large language model on Monday. The company calls it Thomson. It says it spent $40mn on talent and compute to train the model, and that it began from wha [...]

Ant International raises $1.2bn to fund its payments push beyond China

Ant International, the overseas affiliate of Chinese fintech group Ant Group, has raised about $1.2 billion in a fresh equity round to fund its expansion into markets beyond its home turf. The company [...]

Claude earns more revenue per user than ChatGPT, Sensor Tower finds

OpenAI still rules AI by sheer size, but it is no longer running away with it. ChatGPT’s apps crossed 1 billion monthly users last month, the fastest any app has reached the milestone, according to [...]

Italy’s antitrust regulator opens a probe into Apple’s cloud services

Italy’s competition authority has opened an investigation into Apple over its cloud services, examined under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act. The move places Apple’s cloud business und [...]

Europe’s ‘Made in EU’ rules start at 5%, and they do not mention software

The Industrial Accelerator Act arrived on 4 March 2026 as COM(2026)100, alongside an impact assessment and three staff working documents, per the European Commission. Its formal title says what it is [...]

Claude can now tell you that you use Claude too much

Anthropic has built a feature that does something odd for a tech company. It counts how much you lean on its product, then gently suggests you might want to lean a little less. The feature is called R [...]