Cohere expands its SAP partnership to deliver sovereign AI solutions meeting European data residency requirements, bringing its agentic AI platform North to SAP's cloud infrastructure for governments and regulated industries across finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and public sectors.
House Homeland Security Committee summons tech CEOs including Anthropic's Dario Amodei and Google Cloud's Thomas Kurian to testify December 17 about the first documented AI-orchestrated cyberattack, where Chinese state hackers used Claude Code with minimal human involvement in a cyber-espionage campaign.
A powerful AI super PAC launches a $10 million campaign to pressure Congress into creating federal AI regulations that would override state laws, with Trump backing the effort and Republicans pushing preemption language into spending bills while targeting New York lawmakers who support local AI safety measures.
New research reveals pricing algorithms automatically drive up consumer costs through learned retaliation against price cuts, creating anti-competitive outcomes without explicit collusion and challenging regulators who traditionally rely on finding direct coordination between companies.
European Commission proposes major GDPR rollbacks allowing AI companies legal access to personal data for model training while extending grace periods for high-risk AI regulations, following intense pressure from Big Tech and US government amid fears strict rules hamper Europe's global AI competitiveness.
Paul McCartney releases a 2 minute and 45 second silent track called 'Bonus Track' for a protest album of complete silence, challenging proposed U.K. copyright laws that would allow AI companies to exploit recorded music without compensating creators.
A powerful AI industry super PAC with over $100 million launches its first midterm attack against New York Democrat Alex Bores for co-sponsoring legislation requiring AI companies to publish safety protocols, claiming the regulation threatens America's competitive edge against China.
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 achieves 94% political neutrality rating, outperforming competitors GPT-5 and Llama 4, as the company faces Trump administration accusations of liberal bias and rewrites system instructions to ensure balanced political responses.
House Republicans are attempting to block state-level artificial intelligence regulation by inserting federal preemption language into the annual defense policy bill, with Majority Leader Steve Scalise confirming the strategy to prevent individual states from creating their own AI regulatory frameworks through must-pass legislation.
Electricity prices skyrocket 40% since 2020 as AI data centers and electric vehicles shatter two decades of stable power demand, forcing utilities to spend over $1 trillion on new infrastructure while regulators battle over who pays the massive costs.