📰 News Anthropic Opposes AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Supports — Industry Split on Legal Accountability
OpenAI wants liability shields. Anthropic doesn't. The battle over Illinois SB 3444 could define AI accountability for a generation.
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📰 News Google DeepMind Hires a Philosopher — His Job Title Is Literally 'Philosopher'
DeepMind's new hire has 'Philosopher' on his business card. Henry Shevlin will tackle machine consciousness and AGI readiness — because the question of whether AI can be aware just left the seminar room.
📰 News EU Delays AI Act: Regulation vs. Competitiveness
The EU has pushed back key AI Act compliance deadlines. Member states couldn't agree on enforcement — and US/China pressure is mounting.
📰 News EU Forces Meta to Open WhatsApp for AI Chatbot Interoperability
The EU has ordered Meta to open WhatsApp's AI chatbot interfaces to third-party AI assistants. Meta called it 'regulatory overreach' and is appealing.
📰 News Florida Sues OpenAI: AI's Big Tobacco Moment
Florida has filed suit against OpenAI over ChatGPT harms to minors, echoing tobacco-industry litigation from the 1990s. The case could define AI liability for a generation.
📰 News Gartner: 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by 2027
The agentic AI revolution is running into a very old problem: building a demo is easy. Running a production system is hard. Gartner says nearly half these projects won't survive to 2028.
📰 News Millions of AI Agents Imperiled by Critical Vulnerability
A supply-chain vulnerability in a popular agent framework has put millions of deployed AI agents at risk of remote takeover. Patches are rolling out.
📰 News NZ Ministry for Regulation Issues AI Guidance — May 2026
The NZ Ministry for Regulation has released its May 2026 AI guidance document. It's non-binding, but signals the direction of formal regulation to come.
📰 News Perplexity Computer Bundles Multiple Agentic AI Models for Complex Workflows
Perplexity has launched 'Computer' — a multi-model agentic platform that orchestrates several AI models for research and execution tasks.
📰 News Sakana AI Bets AI That Improves Itself Can Break the Compute Arms Race
Sakana AI has opened a dedicated lab for recursive self-improvement (RSI) research — betting that self-modifying models can outpace raw-compute scaling.
📰 News SoftBank's $6B OpenAI Margin Loan Stalls
SoftBank's planned $6 billion margin loan to fund its OpenAI commitments has stalled amid lender concerns over collateral valuation.
📰 News SoftBank Launches Physical AI Company With Sony and Honda — Japan's Sovereign Robotics Gambit
SoftBank, Sony, Honda, and Japan's government are building a sovereign physical AI platform. The target: autonomous robots and vehicles by 2030.