Anthropic published three metrics Thursday — covering AI-led R&D, agent oversight, and compute allocation — designed to help AI companies measure and report on how quickly they are developing, following CEO Dario Amodei's call for an industry slowdown.

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The House adjourned Wednesday without passing AI legislation, while a Senate bid to shield ratepayers from data center utility costs collapsed Thursday after a Democratic senator blocked the measure — leaving both efforts in limbo until after the November midterms.

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp called for nationalization of AI labs and civil and criminal liability for irresponsible developers, while Pentagon CTO Emil Michael argued against government stakes or new regulations for the AI industry.

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CoreWeave said Thursday it plans to raise $3 billion through a convertible debt offering, with initial buyers eligible to purchase up to an additional $500 million, as the Nvidia-backed neocloud seeks to fund its AI infrastructure expansion.

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The FBI seized the domains of NightmareStresser, a long-running DDoS-for-hire platform with over 566,000 registered users, as part of Operation PowerOFF, an international effort to dismantle criminal distributed denial-of-service infrastructure.

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