Artificial Intelligence

The ruling places enforceable legal responsibility on operators to prevent their tools and hosting platforms from producing or circulating sexual imagery of real people without consent. Courts may require technical controls or access restrictions and use daily monetary penalties to ensure compliance.

The order removes the Department of Defense's immediate administrative lever to exclude a private AI vendor over its public safety positions. That pauses enforcement of a novel procurement label and raises legal uncertainty about using supply‑chain risk designations to police corporate speech or contractual restrictions.

Chinese authorities granted approval for multiple Chinese companies to purchase Nvidia H200 AI chips. Nvidia had received a U.S. license in February that allowed small amounts of H200 products to specific China-based customers. Nvidia reported receiving purchase orders from many companies and said it had licenses for many customers in China. Nvidia halted H200 production amid regulatory hurdles in the U.S. and is in the process of restarting manufacturing to meet orders.

The AI factory uses a full stack of latest‑generation NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI technologies. The deployment comprises 2,176 high‑performance GPUs installed on premises in facilities across the United States and Europe. The expansion is part of Roche's global AI infrastructure growth and is dated 16 March 2026.

A February 26 Commerce Department notice proposing implementation of the draft rule was pulled back. The draft would have required government approval for exports of high-end processors and tightened controls on advanced AI chips. A US official characterized the measure as a draft and said discussions were preliminary. The draft was presented as part of efforts to limit China’s access to cutting-edge semiconductor technology and followed a decision to discard a Biden-era regulatory framework.

NVIDIA will provide a $2 billion investment in Nebius and deepen engineering collaboration across AI factory architecture and production software. NVIDIA will support Nebius’s early adoption of the latest generation of NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform. Nebius is expanding NVIDIA infrastructure across its global platform, including multiple gigawatt-scale AI factories in the U.S. Nebius plans to deploy more than 5 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems by the end of 2030.

The order temporarily bars the Comet AI browser agent from performing purchase functions on Amazon's online marketplace. The restriction covers any automated purchases initiated or completed by the Comet agent on Amazon. A federal court in San Francisco issued the temporary order. The order remains in force until further court action.

Stricter age-verification checks are required from Monday. Acceptable verification methods include facial recognition technology, digital IDs and credit card details. The rules apply to companies behind search engines, app stores, social media and gaming platforms, porn sites and AI systems including companion chatbots. Non-compliant platforms face million-dollar fines.

The law applies to AI developers whose models are accessible in California. Required disclosures include which dataset sources were used to train models, when the data was collected, and whether collection is ongoing. Disclosures must state whether datasets include data protected by copyrights, trademarks, or patents, and whether training data was licensed or purchased. Disclosures must also address whether training data included any personal information and how much synthetic data was used to train the model.

The designation is effective immediately. It is the first time a US company has been labelled a supply chain risk. Anthropic received a Defense Department letter designating it a risk and said the designation has a narrow scope. Anthropic has moved toward challenging the designation in court.

Palantir’s Maven Smart Systems uses multiple prompts and workflows built using Anthropic’s Claude code, according to two people familiar with the matter. Palantir holds Maven-related contracts with the Defense Department and other U.S. national security agencies with a potential value of more than $1 billion. The order followed an impasse between Anthropic and the Pentagon over safety guardrails related to autonomous weapons and government surveillance.

Meta will buy AMD’s latest MI450 chips to power its data centres. The agreement is described as a 6-gigawatt deal. Shipments supporting the first 1-gigawatt deployment are set to start during the second half of this year. The agreement is described as potentially worth more than $100 billion. The deal also gives Meta the opportunity to buy up to a 10% stake in AMD.