The U.S. Commerce Department proposed a rule on June 1 that would block Nvidia from selling advanced artificial intelligence chips to Chinese companies through their subsidiaries in third countries, aiming to close a widely exploited loophole in export controls. The proposed regulation extends licensing requirements to cover sales of Nvidia’s H200 and B200 processors to any entity globally that is more than 25 percent owned by a Chinese parent company. Until now, restrictions

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 on May 28, a new flagship AI model that the company says outperforms competitors from OpenAI, Google, and Meta across major reasoning and coding benchmarks. The model arrives roughly five months after Claude 4.5 Sonnet and marks a return to the Opus line, which Anthropic had previously paused to work on efficiency and safety. Chief product officer Mike Krieger said Opus 4.8 was trained with a focus on extended reasoning tasks, allowing it to

South Africa's communications minister Solly Malatsi unveiled a seven-member expert review panel on May 26 to guide the redrafting of the country's national AI policy, one month after the original draft was withdrawn when it was found to contain fictitious academic references generated by AI. Briefing parliament's portfolio committee on communications and digital technologies, Malatsi acknowledged that the department had failed to detect the fabricated citations before they w