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5 storiesThe short versionWashington moved on DeepSeek, and Meta paused Muse chat sharing after thousands of shared chats showed up in public records.Full rundown
DHS published an order telling federal agencies to remove DeepSeek, and it reaches software other companies built on DeepSeek's open models too. It was signed in July. The same day the State Department sanctioned MiraclePlus, the Beijing investor that backed the startup of the ex-Google engineer convicted of stealing Google's AI secrets.
Meta stopped Muse from sharing chats as public pages after Claroc found about 6,800 share addresses in public DNS, with each chat's title in the address.
Anthropic's federal affairs lead said the company will rewrite the preemption section of its draft federal AI bill. OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol scores 86.6% on its COBOL migration test, up from 5.4% for GPT-5.6 Sol. Spotify says it took 50 million AI slop and spam tracks out of recommendations this year. Mistral released Voxtral 3.
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DHS orders federal agencies to remove DeepSeek, including tools other companies built on it
The order also covers software other companies built on DeepSeek's open models, and it was signed in July.
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The US sanctions MiraclePlus, the Beijing investor that backed a convicted ex-Google engineer's startup
State says Ding pitched MiraclePlus on copying Google's AI infrastructure for China, and the incubator paid for a stake.
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Meta pauses Muse chat sharing after a security firm finds 6,800 share addresses in public DNS
Muse put each chat's title in its share address, and DNS records keep those titles searchable even now.
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Anthropic says it will revise the preemption language in its draft federal AI bill after backlash
Its federal affairs lead says states should keep a say on shutting down models, and that the 50-death threshold may need another look.
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OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol scores 86.6% on its COBOL migration test, up from 5.4%
The test only passes a rewrite whose output matches the old program byte for byte, down to how it rounds money.
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