
Amazon Drops Data Center NDAs With Governments: What Changed and What It Does Not Cover
AWS CEO Matt Garman says Amazon no longer uses NDAs with government agencies on data centers, plus a $1B pledge. What it covers and what it leaves out.

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AWS CEO Matt Garman says Amazon no longer uses NDAs with government agencies on data centers, plus a $1B pledge. What it covers and what it leaves out.

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arXiv now limits each submitter to two papers a month after a record 40,363 September 2026 submissions. What the cap covers and who it hits.

Brain-IT from Weizmann reconstructs seen images from fMRI with 1 hour of data, not 40. How it works, the results, and what it cannot do.

EU tech chief Virkkunen says the AI Act covers rogue AI agents; 30+ firms got information requests. What is confirmed, what is not, what it means.

Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue says OpenAI math problems are now open RL environments. 369 Harbor tasks, Lean graded, with a strict reward. What to know.

Sakana AI MASS: one open 27B model improves itself via subagent teams, up to 1.6x score per token in two rounds. Results, limits, code.

Super Micro contractor Willy Sun pleaded guilty to 4 counts in the $2.5B Nvidia AI server diversion case. Scheme, co-defendants, open questions.

A Verge reviewer ran Hermes Agent with a 125B Qwen model locally on a 256GB Mac Studio. What worked, what broke, and how to start.

Yandex confirms a drone attack halted its Vladimir data center, the third in a week after Sasovo and Kaluga. Confirmed facts, open questions, what to do.

a16z's 7th Top 100 AI list adds real US spending data: 4.5% pay for ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude, and the top 1% of payers spend $903 a month.

Meta and OpenAI both sell their AI agents as the private option. The Verge checks the record: VM isolation, data training defaults, and what is unproven.