Wednesday, 2 September 2026
US backs OpenAI's fair-use defense vs NYT
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The Trump administration filed a statement of interest supporting OpenAI's fair-use argument in the New York Times copyright suit, citing national security.
NYC bans student AI use through eighth grade
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America's largest school district blocks ChatGPT, Claude, and companion chatbots for 600,000 students through 8th grade, with limited high school access.
Huskeys raises $27M to police AI traffic
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Blackstone led a $27M Series A for Huskeys, which sits in front of existing firewalls to tell legitimate AI agent traffic from attacks in real time.
Nvidia backs a $125M photonic-switch round
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Spain's iPronics raised a $125M Series B, Nvidia among the backers, to shrink its light-based data center switches so more fit per rack.