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In a fresh twist to the export-control saga, Austria is lobbying Brussels to host Anthropic inside the European Union as a counter to Washington's move blocking foreign nationals from accessing the company's most advanced models. State Secretary Alexander Pröll wrote to Commission Vice President Henna Virkkunen urging member states to explore "the strategic establishment and participation of Anthropic within the European Union," after the June 12 US directive forced a global shutdown of Fable 5 and Mythos 5. It's a remarkable moment: a European government openly courting an American AI lab to relocate the brains, not just the data centers.
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Australian infrastructure outfit Firmus Technologies signed a strategic partnership with Nvidia to resell Nvidia-powered cloud to "AI Native" customers, aiming to get cheaper compute into the hands of smaller and emerging AI firms. The deal deploys 170,000 GPUs between early 2027 and 2028 at a 360-megawatt DSX AI Factory campus in Batam, Indonesia, with Firmus projecting up to $30 billion in revenue over its first six years. Nvidia, already an investor, earns both product sales and a slice of the cloud revenue — its grip on the stack tightening yet again.
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A federal magistrate judge in Colorado granted a joint motion to stay enforcement of the state's landmark AI anti-discrimination law, SB 24-205, just days before it was set to bite. Elon Musk's xAI had sued to block the law, arguing it violates the Constitution, and the order gives xAI 28 days to seek an injunction or amend its complaint once Colorado moves to implement or rewrite the statute. It's an early, concrete win for the camp that wants AI rules set federally rather than state-by-state.
