Brussels banned AI apps that generate fake nude images of real people without consent, moving ahead of the December 2026 EU AI Act deadline in an enforcement action targeting app stores and hosting platforms across the continent.
Recursive Superintelligence emerged from stealth with $650 million to build AI that autonomously rewrites itself, led by AI legends Richard Socher and Peter Norvig, with backing from Alphabet’s GV, Nvidia, and AMD.
The EU finalized amendments to its AI Act, pushing major compliance deadlines back by up to 16 months while adding explicit bans on AI-generated non-consensual intimate images and child sexual abuse material.
The Pentagon requested $54.6 billion for autonomous AI warfare systems in fiscal year 2027, a staggering 24,000 percent increase from the prior year, raising alarm in Congress over who is authorized to direct AI weapons to use lethal force.
Brett Adcock’s stealth AI hardware startup Hark raised $700 million at a $6 billion valuation before releasing any product, with Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm backing his vision of a universal AI interface.
Trump abruptly canceled the signing of a landmark AI executive order moments before the ceremony, killing a proposal that would have required AI companies to let government officials review advanced models before release.
Pope Leo XIV released “Magnifica Humanitas” today, the first papal encyclical dedicated entirely to artificial intelligence, warning that AI poses the defining moral test of our era and presenting it alongside Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah.
OpenAI brought Codex to the ChatGPT mobile app on iOS and Android, letting developers remotely monitor, approve, and redirect AI coding agents from their phones without a laptop.
Google made Gemini 3.5 Flash generally available this week, a frontier-grade model that runs four times faster than comparable rivals and is priced to force a repricing across the entire AI industry.
OpenAI has retained outside counsel and is exploring legal action against Apple over the ChatGPT-Siri integration, which OpenAI says fell far short of the subscriber revenue and product placement it was promised.