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OpenAI and AWS are jointly selling AI to U.S. government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, expanding beyond the Pentagon deal OpenAI signed in February.
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OpenAI and AWS are jointly selling AI to U.S. government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, expanding beyond the Pentagon deal OpenAI signed in February.

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster filed suit against OpenAI in a New York federal court, alleging ChatGPT copied nearly 100,000 articles and dictionary entries without a license.

Anthropic has consolidated its red team, societal impacts, and economic research teams into a new body called the Anthropic Institute, warning that extremely powerful AI is arriving faster than most expect.

Chinese authorities ordered government agencies and state-owned banks to remove or restrict OpenClaw, citing security risks from the AI agent's autonomous operation and broad data access.

The Pentagon launched Agent Designer on its GenAI.mil platform, letting 3 million Defense Department employees build custom Gemini-powered AI assistants without code.

Anthropic filed two federal lawsuits after the Pentagon labeled it a national security supply chain risk for refusing to drop AI guardrails on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.

A bipartisan coalition of 40+ groups - from the AFL-CIO to the Congress of Christian Leaders - released a 34-point declaration demanding human control over AI, corporate accountability, and a ban on autonomous lethal weapons.

Oregon's SB 1546 requires chatbot operators to implement suicide safeguards, disclose AI nature to minors, and ban engagement-maximizing rewards for kids. The 28-2 Senate vote makes it the first chatbot safety bill to pass in 2026.

Gavin Kliger, a former DOGE official who reposted white supremacist content, is now the Pentagon's chief data officer and top AI decision-maker.

The Trump administration's 90-day AI executive order deadline hits this week. Commerce, FTC, and $42B in broadband funding are all on the line.

Days after securing a Pentagon classified network deal, OpenAI is exploring a contract to deploy AI on NATO's unclassified systems - a 32-nation alliance spanning North America and Europe.

Two rival AI super PAC networks - one bankrolled by OpenAI's Greg Brockman and a16z, one by Anthropic - are flooding the 2026 midterms with over $125 million to determine who regulates AI.