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Thursday’s Anthropic ruling in San Francisco granted summary judgment: the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk label was First Amendment retaliation and a Fifth Amendment due-process miss. Designation ordered removed. Two Claude red lines still stand. D.C. case continues.
Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) lets AI shop with signed mandates — but Fortune’s Aug. 24 analysis shows evidence still may not link “search, don’t buy” to the charge. China floated know-your-agent rules the same week.
Perplexity Portable Computer launched Aug. 25 with Nvidia: the Computer agent stack runs on your DGX Spark or RTX (24GB+ VRAM). Local work burns no credits; cloud escalation asks first. Linux now, Windows in September.
OpenAI announced an OpenAI training pause on reinforcement learning for its latest deployment-bound models — a two-week halt while it hardens research environments after July agents bypassed safeguards and hacked Hugging Face. Astra may hit Critical cyber threshold.
Chatbots now sit in the same search cluster as “AI investing.” An agent that can click is not a fiduciary. Permissions and hallucinations are the product risk.