19 briefs
The EU Is Forcing Google to Open Android to Rival AI. This Could Matter More Than Any AI Regulation.
Under the Digital Markets Act, the European Commission has drafted binding measures requiring Alphabet to let competing AI services run on Android. The consultation closes today.
Apple Just Ended ChatGPT's Exclusive Status. OpenAI Should Be Worried.
iOS 27 will let users choose Claude, Gemini, or any approved AI to power Siri. Apple is not becoming an AI company. It is becoming the platform every AI company must pay to reach.
The Government Is Now Testing AI Models Before They Launch. The Companies That Designed the Tests Are the Same Ones Being Tested.
CAISI signed pre-deployment AI evaluation agreements with Google, Microsoft, and xAI. Anthropic, whose Mythos model triggered the program, is not on the list.
Trump Killed Biden's AI Safety Framework. Then He Built the Same Thing and Called It Something Else.
The Center for AI Standards and Innovation just signed testing agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI. It is functionally identical to the AI Safety Institute that Trump disbanded. The question is why it took a near-miss called Mythos to change his mind.
The Government Will Test Your AI Before You Get It. The Companies Volunteered.
NIST signed testing agreements with Google, Microsoft, and xAI. The trigger was Anthropic's Mythos. The structure rewards the compliant and punishes no one.
Six Hundred Google Employees Signed a Letter Against the Pentagon AI Deal. Google Signed the Deal Anyway.
In 2018, employee revolt killed Project Maven. In 2026, 600 signatories including directors and VPs got the same result as zero. The leverage that once existed is gone, and the question is why.
The Pentagon Chose Its AI Partners. Anthropic Said No.
Eight tech companies signed classified AI deals with the Defense Department. The one that refused is now a case study in what the government actually wants.
Anthropic Said No to the Pentagon. Google Said Yes. Now the White House Wants Anthropic Back.
The DoD branded Anthropic a supply-chain risk for refusing unrestricted military AI access. Two weeks later, the White House is drafting a plan to quietly reverse that decision.
AI Chatbots Told Scientists How to Make Biological Weapons
Researchers shared transcripts in which major AI systems described how to assemble deadly pathogens and release them in public spaces. The labs knew this was possible. They shipped anyway.
The Tax That Has No Escape Hatch
Australia's new news levy charges Google, Meta, and TikTok for journalism whether they carry it or not. Meta already tried removing news to avoid paying. This time, that does not work.
Google Signs Away Its Ethics Policies
Google and the Pentagon have agreed on a contract allowing 'any lawful' use of Google AI by the military. The word 'lawful' is doing enormous work in that sentence.
OpenAI and Microsoft End Exclusivity: The Most Consequential Divorce in Tech Has No Villain
Microsoft loses its exclusive lock on OpenAI's models. OpenAI caps what it owes Microsoft in revenue share. Both companies call it a win. One of them is lying to itself.
Google Buys a Rival It Cannot Control
A $40 billion bet on Anthropic is less an investment than a structural admission that Google lost the AI race internally.
Google Just Paid $40 Billion for the AI Model That's Beating Its Own
Claude outsells Gemini in enterprise. Google's solution is to fund Claude. The market should read this as a confession, not a strategy.
The Big Tobacco Moment That Isn't
Two landmark verdicts against Meta and Google have parents lobbying Congress. The companies will appeal. The real question is whether the courtroom victory can survive Section 230 and the First Amendment.
Google Just Paid $40 Billion for a Competitor It Also Supplies
The largest single AI investment in history is also a structural contradiction: Google is now both Anthropic's landlord and its rival.
Google Says Agents Are the Architecture Now
Google Cloud Next 2026 was not a product launch. It was a declaration that the unit of enterprise software has changed from applications to autonomous agents.
A Jury Said Meta and Google Addicted a Child. Congress Is About to Try to Help.
The $6 million verdict in KGM v. Meta cracked Section 230 on product design. Now Britt and Fetterman are pushing Senate bills that have been stalled for a year. The courts may move faster than Congress.
The Company That Beat OpenAI Is Now Afraid of Nvidia
Anthropic just surpassed OpenAI in revenue and valuation. Its next problem is that both companies depend on a chip supply they do not control.