European AI labs launch a massive initiative to break free from US tech giants like OpenAI and Google, with UK and EU governments committing hundreds of millions to develop domestic AI capabilities through open-source models and alternative designs inspired by China's DeepSeek success.
Former OpenAI policy chief Miles Brundage launches $7.5 million nonprofit AVERI to push for mandatory independent safety audits of AI companies, developing frameworks with 30+ experts to replace industry self-regulation as insurance firms and EU regulations create pressure for external oversight.
Wikipedia celebrates its 25th anniversary by welcoming Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Perplexity as major partners who access its human-curated knowledge through enterprise APIs to power AI models, chatbots, and search engines across 300+ languages and 65 million pages receiving 15 billion monthly views.
Indonesia and Malaysia temporarily block X's Grok chatbot while the UK launches a formal investigation that could ban the platform entirely, after the AI tool generates nonconsensual sexual deepfakes of women and children, prompting X to restrict the controversial feature to paying subscribers only.
California moves forward with groundbreaking youth AI safety legislation that requires age verification, bans child-targeted advertising, prohibits AI systems from forming emotional or romantic relationships with minors, and mandates independent safety audits with enforcement penalties.
President Trump directs federal agencies to sue states over AI regulations and threatens to cut funding from states with restrictive AI laws, while establishing a DOJ task force to challenge conflicting state legislation within 90 days.
Silicon Valley companies increasingly adopt Chinese open-source AI models like DeepSeek R1 for cost advantages while Trump battles Democratic states over AI regulation, as chatbots revolutionize shopping with potential to generate $3-5 trillion in annual commerce by 2030.
Meta launches Meta Compute initiative to build tens of gigawatts of AI infrastructure this decade under former Google executive leadership, marking a massive strategic push for competitive advantage amid growing scrutiny of data center construction.
OpenAI partners with Common Sense Media to back California's Parents & Kids Safe AI Act ballot initiative, which would require age verification for minors using AI, ban targeted advertising to children, mandate company audits, and prohibit sharing kids' data without parental consent.
Hypercubic unveils an AI platform to modernize critical 1960s COBOL mainframe systems that still power 70% of major enterprises, addressing the crisis of retiring engineers taking decades of institutional knowledge from undocumented systems running banks, airlines, and government operations.