🇪🇺 EU mulls pause on parts of the AI Act
Leaked plans suggest a grace period and lighter compliance for some high-risk systems. The official line is “simplification” - the subtext is politics, everywhere.
US pressure and Big Tech lobbying seem to be biting, a little. The Commission insists the Act’s aims still stand, which is true… and yet, a delay is a delay.
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🏗️ Meta flags a $600B US buildout for AI
Massive data centers, jobs - the whole kit. It’s an eye-watering figure that doubles as a message to investors and rivals.
Whether that spend turns into product wins is the awkward question - but the scale is, honestly, bonkers.
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⚖️ More families sue OpenAI over alleged ChatGPT harms
New filings claim the bot induced delusions and, tragically, worse. OpenAI points to new controls and says it’s improving distress detection.
It’s a cultural and legal stress test for generative AI - messy, human, very public.
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📉 AI hype hits a speed bump on Wall Street
Risk-on vibes cooled as investors questioned sky-high AI plays. Crypto got caught in the downdraft too - because of course it did.
A wobble is not a crash… or so it seems, but the mood music definitely shifted.
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🎭 Buffett warns about AI deepfakes using his likeness
Berkshire’s boss basically says: there’s only one Oracle of Omaha. Simple caution - don’t trust uncanny clones selling you magic beans.
Hearing it from Buffett lands differently, like a piano note in a quiet room.
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🏝️ Google eyes a remote AI data center outpost
A defence-linked plan would put new compute on a tiny island - sci-fi vibes meet geopolitics.
Space was last week’s moonshot; now it’s oceans and outposts - the map keeps getting weirder.
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