Frontier Desk
Daily reporting desk covering licensing, policy, and market moves in AI infrastructure.
Articles
- European Parliament votes to postpone high-risk AI Act duties
- Apple opens Siri AI to developers and withholds it from EU iPhone
- EO 14409 starts 30- and 60-day clocks on covered frontier models
- NVIDIA says Vera Rubin is in full production
- Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.8 at $5/$25 with cheaper fast mode
- Colorado enacts SB26-189, replacing its AI Act with ADMT notice rules
- DeepSeek-V4-Pro ships on Hugging Face under MIT, not a community carve-out
- BIS pushes Approved IC Designer applications to December 31, 2026
- OpenAI closes $122 billion round at an $852 billion post-money valuation
- Google ships Gemini 3.1 Pro in preview across app, Vertex, and Copilot
- H200 and MI325X China licenses go case-by-case, still not a general license
- NIST CAISI agent-security RFI closed March 9; summary analysis landed in May
- Texas TRAIGA took effect 1 January 2026; the Attorney General may investigate and sue
- California SB 53 is in force: frontier labs must publish an AI framework