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Government figures released 16 Jan show tech platforms collectively deactivated 4.7 million Australian accounts in the four weeks since the 10 Dec child-access ban began, marking the law’s first concrete enforcement milestone.
On 15 January 2026, Amazon Web Services activated its first standalone “European Sovereign Cloud” region in Brandenburg, Germany and committed to extend the isolated EU-only platform into Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal.
After Ofcom opened a probe and PM Keir Starmer threatened swift sanctions, X on 15 Jan 2026 geoblocked and technically disabled Grok’s ability to strip or sexualize images of real people, even for paying users.
On 14 Jan 2026 the U.S. shifted Nvidia’s H200 from near-automatic denial to case-by-case export approval, but the same day China ordered customs and tech firms to block H200 imports except for narrowly defined R&D needs, nullifying the new access.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, speaking at SpaceX on 13 Jan 2026, ordered both Grok and Gemini switched on across every classified and unclassified Pentagon network before February, launching a new "AI-acceleration" strategy that sidelines traditional, slower procurement rules.
After President Trump’s 11 Jan 2026 phone call with Elon Musk about Iran’s four-day internet blackout, SpaceX switched all Iranian Starlink terminals to free service, turning thousands of dormant dishes back on despite regime jamming.
On 14 Jan 2026 Washington ended its blanket ban and will let Nvidia ship H200 processors to “approved” Chinese buyers, charging a 25 % levy and limiting China to at most half the U.S. domestic volume.
On 13 Jan 2026 Apple abandoned its solo AI rebuild and announced a multi-year pact to run next-gen Siri and Apple Foundation Models on Google’s cloud-based Gemini LLM.
On 13 Jan 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot rolled out on every Pentagon system within weeks, formally making it a core tool in the department’s new “AI-first” warfighting strategy despite ongoing safety investigations.
Between 25–31 Dec 2025, Chinese entities lodged two ITU filings—CTC-1 and CTC-2—each covering 96,714 low-Earth-orbit satellites, dwarfing existing plans and locking in priority dates for future networks.
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