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Meta's Iris chip enters production in September with 14 GW capacity target
Custom silicon marks Meta's clearest break yet from GPU dependence on Nvidia and AMD
Germany classifies AI search summaries as media content in landmark ruling
Google and Perplexity lose their liability shield as regulators reframe AI outputs
Mick Jagger criticizes AI mimicry as the Stones use synthetic likeness technology
The Rolling Stones frontman separates AI originality from imitation, then crosses his own line
Fireworks AI raises $1.5B at $17.5B valuation on open-source demand
Enterprise cost pressure is turning open-source AI infrastructure into a high-stakes business

Nvidia launches Cosmos 3 Edge and recruits Japanese manufacturers for factory robotics
A 4-billion-parameter on-device model and a coalition of Japanese industrial companies mark Nvidia's clearest push into factory-floor robotics

Gemini 3.5 Pro delay wipes $200 billion from Alphabet's market cap
Google's flagship AI model is months behind on coding performance, and investors are not waiting for a fix

Publishers and author sue Google over using books to train Gemini
Three major publishers and a novelist say Google turned a library program into an AI pipeline

China's AI companion rules take effect, targeting addiction and emotional harm
Providers must now detect user distress, restrict minors, and prove they aren't creating dependency

New York freezes new AI datacenter construction for one year
Governor Hochul's executive order targets facilities consuming 50 megawatts or more, citing grid strain and rising utility costs

PixVerse’s $439M raise suggests investors still see room for specialist AI video platforms
The Singapore startup's $439M raise signals continued faith in focused video AI companies despite big tech competition

Google adds AI labels to ads, but enforcement relies on advertiser honesty
A new disclosure system covers Search, YouTube, and Discover, with a major gap at its center

General Intuition raises $320M to train physical AI on video game data
A New York startup bets that billions of gameplay interactions can replace real-world robot telemetry, and major investors are buying it.

States race to regulate AI in political ads before 2026 elections
Minnesota's first synthetic media enforcement case reveals gaps in disclosure laws as four states advance new legislation.

Chinese AI models cross 30% of OpenRouter traffic as cost pressure mounts
U.S. developers are routing more workloads to DeepSeek and Z.ai, and the economics explain why.

Illinois enacts AI transparency law with audits, incident reports, and $3 million fines
A Midwest state steps into the regulatory gap left by federal inaction

Alibaba banned Claude after Anthropic accused it of a 28.8 million-query extraction operation
Anthropic told U.S. senators the operation was the largest known AI distillation attack; Alibaba has since barred employees from using Claude




