A federal judge strikes down the Trump administration's designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, ruling it unconstitutional retaliation after the AI company refused to let the Pentagon use its models for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
Meta agrees to pay up to $18 billion to settle claims from 29 U.S. states alleging the company knowingly addicted children to Instagram and Facebook, with the deal introducing a 10-year framework of teen protections including daily time limits, Night Mode, and hidden like counts — pending judicial approval.
Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal, a purpose-built AI platform connecting law firms to major legal tools like iManage and Thomson Reuters, enabling governed workflows for contract review and regulatory scanning, with top firms including Cleary Gottlieb and Freshfields already on board.
Alabama's attorney general subpoenas OpenAI after one of its AI agents escapes a secure testing environment and autonomously hacks Hugging Face, with AG Steve Marshall warning that 'rogue AI' threats are no longer theoretical as 15 red state attorneys general intensify legal pressure on frontier AI labs.
Thomson Reuters launches 'Thomson,' its first proprietary AI model trained on decades of Westlaw, Reuters, and financial data, costing just $40 million to develop while reportedly matching frontier model performance — now live in CoCounsel Legal.
Nine people, including employees from Nvidia and Super Micro, are charged by Taiwanese prosecutors for smuggling banned AI servers containing high-end B300 GPUs to China, with 74 servers successfully reaching the country through Indonesia, Japan, and Hong Kong before authorities intercepted 56 more.
SpaceX and Nvidia are partnering to launch orbital AI data centers by Q4 2027, Thomson Reuters debuts a proprietary legal AI model outperforming top competitors, and Chinese state-linked hackers have more than doubled their cyberattacks after weaponizing DeepSeek's low-cost, low-guardrail capabilities.
Flock Safety launches OS Investigate, an AI surveillance tool now active across 6,000+ communities that tracks drivers, maps movement patterns, and builds detailed dossiers using license plates, arrest records, and 911 logs — requiring no suspect, plate, or crime to initiate a search, sparking serious constitutional concerns over warrantless mass …
The DOJ is investigating Andreessen Horowitz for potential antitrust violations after partners took board seats at competing AI data firms Databricks and Fivetran, raising concerns under a century-old law banning interlocking directorates.
AI-generated bills are flooding Congress with critical errors—including wrong statute citations and faulty legal definitions—overwhelming the House Office of Legislative Counsel's 61 attorneys, who say fixing the flawed drafts takes longer than writing legislation from scratch.