Scale AI wins $500m Pentagon contract, five times its previous Defense Department deal
Scale AI wins $500m Pentagon contract, five times its previous Defense Department deal

The agreement was signed with the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, the procurement vehicle driving the bulk of US military AI integration spending in 2025 and 2026. Microsoft, Amazon, and Google signed parallel classified-ne…

Google’s top differential-privacy scientist tells the EU its data-sharing plan can be reversed in two hours
Google’s top differential-privacy scientist tells the EU its data-sharing plan can be reversed in two hours

Sergei Vassilvitskii, distinguished scientist at Google since 2012, has written to Brussels warning that the Commission’s proposed anonymisation scheme for forced search-data sharing is, by his red team’s own demonstration, breakable in 120 minutes. Th…

The designer whose Tropicana rebrand crashed sales 20 per cent is now branding the US government. He has two months.
The designer whose Tropicana rebrand crashed sales 20 per cent is now branding the US government. He has two months.

The United States government now has a chief brand architect. Peter Arnell, the designer whose four-decade career includes creating the DKNY brand identity, redesigning the Pepsi logo in a project accompanied by a 27-page strategy document that referen…

Five AI labs now let the US government test their models before release. The arrangement is voluntary, has no legal basis, and is the closest thing America has to AI oversight.
Five AI labs now let the US government test their models before release. The arrangement is voluntary, has no legal basis, and is the closest thing America has to AI oversight.

The Mythos crisis forced the United States government to confront a question it had been avoiding: what happens when an AI model is powerful enough to threaten national security and the government has no formal mechanism to evaluate it before the publi…

Brussels reissues its Huawei warning, six years on, and prepares to make it stick
Brussels reissues its Huawei warning, six years on, and prepares to make it stick

The European Commission has formally recommended that member states keep Huawei and ZTE out of their connectivity infrastructure. The same restrictions are now moving toward becoming legally binding. China has already threatened to retaliate. When the …

Europe’s finance chiefs want Mythos access to defend their banks. Washington has so far said no.
Europe’s finance chiefs want Mythos access to defend their banks. Washington has so far said no.

An Anthropic AI model that can find zero-days in every major operating system has become a geopolitical and prudential question. The Eurogroup met in Brussels on Monday with no answer in hand. Brussels on a Monday morning in early May is not, by tradit…

Meta would rather leave New Mexico than rebuild its apps for kids
Meta would rather leave New Mexico than rebuild its apps for kids

A bench trial in Santa Fe could force algorithm changes, age verification, and a $3.7bn mental health fund. Meta has threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from the state instead. In March, a New Mexico jury reached a verdict that no American jury h…

China launches months-long campaign against AI misuse targeting deepfakes, fraud, and disinformation
China launches months-long campaign against AI misuse targeting deepfakes, fraud, and disinformation

The Cyberspace Administration’s annual ‘Qinglang’ campaign arrives in a materially different regulatory environment to last year’s edition, and in the same week the White House accused China of running ‘industrial-scale’ AI theft operations. China has …

Italy’s antitrust authority closes probes into DeepSeek, Mistral, and Nova AI over AI hallucination disclosures
Italy’s antitrust authority closes probes into DeepSeek, Mistral, and Nova AI over AI hallucination disclosures

The AGCM accepted binding commitments from all three chatbot providers, establishing a concrete benchmark for what ‘adequate’ hallucination transparency must look like in practice, and a 120-day compliance window before potential fines. Italy’s competi…

White House opposes Anthropic’s plan to expand Mythos access to 70 companies, citing compute and security concerns
White House opposes Anthropic’s plan to expand Mythos access to 70 companies, citing compute and security concerns

The Trump administration has told Anthropic it disagrees with a controlled rollout that would bring its dangerous cyberattack-capable AI to roughly 120 organisations in total, even as the White House simultaneously explores an executive order to bring …