The EU selected Italian startup Domyn’s EUROPA consortium to build a 400-billion-parameter open-source AI model covering all 24 official EU languages.
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Transformer co-author Noam Shazeer leaves Google for OpenAI
Shazeer, co-author of the Transformer paper, left Google on June 18 for OpenAI less than two years after Google paid $2.7 billion to bring him back.
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House panel clears bill to subject AI chip exports to weapons-sale review
The House Foreign Affairs Committee advanced the AI OVERWATCH Act 42–2–1, a bill that would require congressional review of advanced chip exports to adversaries and ban Nvidia Blackwell sales to China for two years.
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Congress drafts first US federal AI law targeting frontier model developers
A bipartisan June 4 draft would require frontier AI labs to report safety incidents federally and prevent states from regulating how the most powerful models are built.
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Anthropic and DeepMind CEOs call for US-led global AI coalition at G7
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis called for US leadership on global AI standards at the G7 summit in Évian on June 17.
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Nvidia faces Warren’s chip-diversion deadline today as DOJ indictments pile up
June 18 is the deadline Senator Warren set for Nvidia to explain why DOJ indictments allege $670 million in GPU diversions to China that CEO Jensen Huang said never happened.
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London Tech Week closes with £6bn in AI pledges and a national compute push
London Tech Week 2026 concluded with £6 billion in AI pledges, including AMD’s £2bn five-year commitment and a UK government £1.1bn AI Hardware Plan anchored by a £750m national supercomputer.
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German court declares Google liable for false AI Overview claims
Munich’s Regional Court found Google directly liable for false AI Overview statements, ruling the summaries are Google’s own speech and not protected search-result listings.
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Nvidia declines Senate hearing as Warren sets June 18 deadline on chip diversion probe
Senator Elizabeth Warren has set a June 18 deadline for Nvidia to explain its export control compliance after CEO Jensen Huang declined a Senate hearing invitation and DOJ alleged $510 million in diverted AI chips.
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US orders Anthropic to cut off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals
The US government issued an export control directive on 13 June 2026 ordering Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals, citing a reported security jailbreak.