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A federal judge ’s decision to block the Trump administration from banning AI firm Anthropic from Department of War use is igniting a debate over whether the ruling pushes courts into national security decision-making. The ruling, issued late Thursday by U.S. District Judge Rita Lin, a Biden appointee to the Northern District of California, pauses the administration’s broader effort to bar the company while the case proceeds, though it does not explicitly require the Pentagon to use Anthropic. The judge also gave the government one week to appeal. Under Secretary of War Emil Michael wrote on X that the ruling contained "dozens of factual errors" and was issued "during a time of conflict," arguing it "seeks to upend the (president’s) role as Commander in Chief" and disrupt the department’s ability to conduct military operations. A BRAVE MARINE COLONEL TOOK ON THE PENTAGON — AND PAID THE PRICE FOR IT Michael said the administration views Anthropic as sti...

Financial Times : Sources: Google nears a deal to help finance Nexus Data Centers' Texas campus that is leased to Anthropic, as Google deepens its partnership with the AI startup   —  Texas site for Nexus Data Centers aims to avoid grid connection delays with direct gas supplies

Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post : The China Computer Federation calls for a boycott of AI conference NeurIPS after organizers barred submissions from US-sanctioned companies like Huawei   —  Move to comply with US sanctions sparks backlash, with China's top computing body threatening to blacklist the AI conference

Illegal immigrants nabbed by ICE do not have to face bond hearings, a step that has become a potential legal impediment to President Donald Trump ’s mass deportation agenda, a second federal court found Wednesday. The case involved Mexican national Joaquin Herrera Avila, who was captured in Minneapolis in August and failed to produce legal credentials authorizing his admission to the U.S. He was detained without bond and faced removal proceedings . "Massive court victory against activist judges and for President Trump’s law and order agenda," Attorney General Pam Bondi said after the St. Louis-based Eighth Circuit reversed a lower court’s ruling and deemed many captured illegal immigrants ineligible for such chances to be released. TOP US COURT HANDS TRUMP A WIN ON DEPORTATIONS AS SCOTUS CHALLENGE LOOMS A district court in Minnesota granted Avila’s petition for habeas corpus, or to challenge the legality of his detention, which the Trump administration challenged. "...

Mark Sullivan / Fast Company : ARC Prize Foundation unveils ARC-AGI-3, an AI benchmark with simple video-game-like scenarios designed to measure on-the-fly reasoning rather than memory recall   —  ARC-AGI-3 tests whether models can reason through novel problems, not just recall patterns, a task even top systems still struggle to do.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Reddit says it will label automated accounts that provide a service to users and will require accounts suspected of being bots to verify they are human   —  Would-be Reddit competitor Digg just shut down because it couldn't get a handle on the bots overrunning its site.