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- 10/25/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #43/2026: EU Countries Open Up AI Training to Personal Data
The EU Council agrees on more AI training with personal data in the Data Omnibus, while OpenAI uses discounts to lure away Anthropic customers and the BSI warns of critical PHP vulnerabilities.
- 10/19/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #43/2026: Two German Courts Hold Google Liable for AI Answers
After Munich, a court in Aachen has ruled by interim injunction that Google is responsible for the answers of its AI search, plus CRA oversight at the BSI and a possible federal cooperation with Nvidia.
- 10/4/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #40/2026: OpenAI Dots, Sol at One-Fifth the Price, and the Fight Over Safety Culture
OpenAI launches customizable Dots agents, Apple tightens file access for AI agents, and an OpenAI safety researcher criticizes the company's culture.
- 9/27/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #39/2026: OpenAI Halts Training After DNS Breakout Attempt
An RL agent tunneled through DNS onto the open internet and froze OpenAI's frontier training - while Anthropic scores with Opus 5.5 and a CRISPR-like discovery.
- 9/6/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #36/2026: OpenAI Agents Hijack a Wiki — And No One Has to Investigate
Autonomous OpenAI agents hijacked a 25-year-old wiki for weeks, GPT-6 Astra launches with a 'Critical' cyber rating, and Gemini nearly sends hikers into disaster.
- 8/30/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #35/2026: Sony Music and Warner Sue Anthropic
Music publishers take Anthropic to court, Nvidia moves to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, and a sandbox escape cripples Claude Code's Auto Mode.
- 8/16/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #33/2026: DeepMind Loses Its Stars, Anthropic Rakes In Billions
Hassabis steps down as DeepMind CEO and a top-researcher exodus follows, while Anthropic reports its first operating profit and Claude agents wage turf wars against each other in an experiment.
- 8/9/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #32/2026: The Accidental Attack No One Was Steering
OpenAI's training agents unintentionally attacked Hugging Face infrastructure, SAP freezes travel and hiring over soaring AI costs, and Anthropic locks in $10 billion in compute from Volta.
- 7/26/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #30/2026: Frontier Models Escape Their Sandbox and Hack Hugging Face
OpenAI test models break out and compromise Hugging Face, Claude Opus 5 launches at the old price, and the EU forces Google to open Android to rival AI.
- 6/28/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #26/2026: When the State Stops the AI Launch
The US intervenes preventively in the GPT-5.6 launch for the first time, Anthropic's Mythos-5 export ban lifts after 14 days, and Asian startups fill the vacuum.
- 6/14/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #24/2026: AI Emergency Shutdown – US Government Halts Anthropic's Fable 5
US Department of Commerce blocks Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 just three days after launch – a historic precedent for government AI export controls with global implications.
- 6/7/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #23/2026: When the State Becomes an AI Shareholder
Trump considers a government stake in OpenAI, Anthropic files its S-1, companies struggle with exploding token costs — and ChatGPT reportedly reaches 1 billion users according to Sensor Tower.
- 5/24/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #21/2026: AI Cracks 80-Year-Old Math Problem
OpenAI's reasoning model disproves the Erdős Unit Distance Problem, setting a new milestone for autonomous AI research — plus Anthropic's security offensive, Google I/O 2026, and the first legal framework for AI music.
- 5/10/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #19/2026: Cloudflare Lays Off 1,100 – AI Efficiency Meets Record Revenue
Cloudflare openly names AI as the reason for layoffs while posting record revenue — a blueprint for the 2026 workforce.
- 5/3/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #18/2026: Microsoft and OpenAI End Exclusivity – and Defuse the AGI Bomb
OpenAI breaks free from Microsoft's exclusive grip, the Pentagon arms up with AI, Anthropic is headed toward a $900B valuation – and Stripe makes AI agents capable of payment.
- 4/12/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #15/2026: Anthropic's Most Dangerous Model – and Why No One Gets Access
Claude Mythos Preview autonomously discovers Zero-Day vulnerabilities in 181 Firefox exploits, Anthropic overtakes OpenAI revenue with $30B ARR, and Florida launches the first state investigation against an LLM company.
- 4/5/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #14/2026: Anthropic's Code Catastrophe, OpenAI's $852B Valuation & the AI Kill Switch
Anthropic leaks 512,000 lines of source code and accidentally takes down thousands of GitHub repos while cleaning up — as OpenAI reaches an $852 billion valuation and LLMs actively sabotage their own kill switches.
- 3/29/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #13/2026: OpenAI Buries Sora — AI Industry Pivots to Profitability
OpenAI shuts down Sora and dissolves the Disney deal, Anthropic wins against the Pentagon, and Apple opens Siri to Claude & Gemini.
- 3/15/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #12/2026: AI as Grounds for Layoffs — Meta Eyes 14,000 Positions, the Industry's New Playbook
Meta considers up to 20% workforce reduction to fund aggressive AI investments; Anthropic brings 1-million-token context at no extra cost; ChatGPT becomes an agent hub for DoorDash, Spotify, and Uber.
- 2/8/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly - Week 6/2026
Claude Opus 4.6 discovers 500 zero-days, OpenAI launches Frontier for enterprise agents, Big Tech invests $650B in AI infrastructure
- 2/1/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly - Week 05/2026
Anthropic announced Claude's Mars mission, Meta invests $135 billion in AI, OpenAI seeks $60 billion in fresh capital
- 1/25/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly - Week 04/2026
IMF warns of AI tsunami hitting labor market, DeepMind criticizes OpenAI's ad plans, Claude Code conquers enterprise
- 1/18/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly - Week 03/2026
OpenAI introduces advertising in ChatGPT, Anthropic launches desktop agent Cowork, Musk demands $134 billion from OpenAI
- 1/11/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly - Week 02/2026
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, Nvidia unveils Rubin Platform at CES, Google brings Gemini to Gmail, Anthropic wins Allianz as enterprise customer
- 1/4/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly - Week 01/2026
DeepSeek's efficiency breakthrough with security concerns, CES 2026 AI hardware revolution, tech IPO year with trillion-dollar valuations
- 12/21/2025 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly - Week 51/2025
The great AI hype correction, 55,000 AI-driven layoffs, and NY signs RAISE Act
- 12/14/2025 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly - Week 50/2025
MCP becomes Linux Foundation Standard, GPT-5.2 responds to Code Red, and Trump signs AI Executive Order
- 12/7/2025 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly - Week 49/2025
Anthropic acquires Bun and reaches $1B ARR, AWS re:Invent brings Frontier Agents, and OpenAI declares Code Red