
Anthropic Blackout Forces Europe to Confront AI Reliance
The EU Commission has warned that Washington's Anthropic export ban is discriminatory against allies, as European politicians demand AI sovereignty and Dario Amodei heads to the G7 in France.
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The EU Commission has warned that Washington's Anthropic export ban is discriminatory against allies, as European politicians demand AI sovereignty and Dario Amodei heads to the G7 in France.

A coalition of 42 state attorneys general has opened a sweeping investigation into OpenAI, served via subpoena just five days after the company filed confidentially for a $1 trillion IPO.

A former xAI engineer filed a California whistleblower lawsuit claiming he was fired for warning that Grok could spread dangerous content - the day before SpaceX prices its historic $75B IPO.

PM Mark Carney's AI for All commits $2.3 billion to hit 250,000 new jobs and 60% business adoption by 2034 - but critics call it a wish list without hard delivery mechanisms.

Senator Bernie Sanders proposes seizing 50% of OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI stock to fund a federal sovereign wealth fund with government board seats.

A bipartisan Congressional bill would freeze state AI laws for three years and require frontier developers to publish catastrophic risk plans, submit to federal audits, and face $1M daily fines.

Florida becomes the first US state to hold an AI CEO personally liable, filing an 83-page complaint accusing OpenAI and Sam Altman of hiding ChatGPT's dangers while racing for market share.

The UK's CMA issued a world-first binding order requiring Google to let publishers opt out of AI Overviews, AI Mode, and AI model training, with nine months to comply.

Trump signed a narrowed AI executive order giving the government 30 days of voluntary pre-release access to frontier models, after industry lobbying gutted the original 90-day mandatory proposal.

CNN filed a copyright and trademark lawsuit against Perplexity AI in federal court, becoming the first television network to take legal action against an AI search company over scraping 17,000+ stories.

YouTube now auto-detects and labels photorealistic AI video content without waiting for creator disclosure, using C2PA metadata and internal signals in a shift that removes creator control from the equation.

OpenAI published its first public compliance framework mapping internal safety practices to California's SB 53 and the EU AI Act - but critics note the underlying Preparedness Framework quietly dropped manipulation from its risk categories last April.