How Meta founded FAIR in 2013, fell behind as it was distracted by the metaverse, and is spending an unprecedented amount of money trying to catch up (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)

A U.S. judge ruled the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk illegal, halting the agency’s attempt to blacklist the Claude developer. Meanwhile, the UK Treasury assigned the Bank of England a new legal mandate to foster payment-system and digital-money innovation, aiming to keep London competitive in the stable-coin market. Additionally, OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft and over 100 firms warned that a narrow window exists to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks, urging coordinated defensive action.