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A 180-page Lords report warns that AI companies are scraping UK website content without permission, payment, or disclosure. The committee wants licensing, not opt-out. Here's what it means for the 5.5 million UK businesses publishing content online, and five steps you can take before the law catches up.
Defense Secretary Hegseth gave Anthropic until Friday to drop Claude's safety guardrails or face the Defense Production Act. Eight of the ten largest US companies use Claude. Here's why this is a business continuity problem, not just a Washington power struggle.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 launched 17 February 2026 matching the then-flagship Opus 4.6 on office tasks and financial analysis at a fifth of the price. Opus 4.7 has since taken over as Anthropic's flagship with 87.6% on SWE-bench Verified. Sonnet 4.6 remains the value pick for office work and computer use.
Grok AI spread false information about the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, inventing a fictional hero and misidentifying victims. Here's why UK WordPress site owners using AI for content need to pay attention to the Online Safety Act and implement proper verification workflows.
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.2 three weeks early in December 2025 after Google's Gemini 3 topped AI benchmarks. Updated April 2026 with the GPT-5.3 and GPT-5.4 releases that followed. The "code red" worked, then the cycle kept moving.
A California federal judge ordered Automattic to restore WP Engine's WordPress.org access within 72 hours. The ruling ended a three-month standoff that blocked updates for 200,000+ sites and raised questions about who controls the WordPress ecosystem.
