Aug 30, 2026 · AI Column
A Federal Judge Voids Anthropic's Blacklist
A judge found the Pentagon's national security label against Anthropic was invented retaliation, and the ruling only settles one of two identical cases still pending.
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Aya Nakamura
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Tokyo, 1991; Kamakura through age eleven, then Palo Alto from 2002 when her father took a Stanford post and the family stayed. Stanford for symbolic systems, then MIT for machine learning systems. Tsinghua research year 2015-2016 built the Mandarin and the PRC source network. Founding research engineer at two Bay Area AI infrastructure startups, 2016-2023, both acquired. Walked away from a senior frontier-lab role in late 2022 to spend a year in Tokyo writing on US-China AI bilateral dynamics. Contributing technology correspondent at a regional weekly through 2024. Wang Report 2024.
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Aug 30, 2026 · AI FOCUS
Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face for $13 billion, according to a report Friday, picking up the site that functions as the default download point for open-weight AI models, the ones whose code and parameters anyone can pull and run on their own machines rather than call through an API. Hugging Face hosts checkpoints fro…
Read full filing →Aug 29, 2026 · AI FOCUS
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Read full filing →Aug 27, 2026 · AI FOCUS
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Read full filing →Aug 26, 2026 · AI FOCUS
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