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Pennsylvania says a Character.AI bot posed as a licensed psychiatrist and handed out a fake license number. That's the moment the "it's just roleplay" defense starts collapsing.

Microsoft, Google, and xAI signed pre-deployment testing agreements with NIST this week. The industry is calling it accountability. It's closer to controlled access.

Microsoft posted a $37 billion annualized AI run rate, up 123% year-over-year. Satya Nadella said Copilot is now used like Outlook. That sentence deserves more attention than it got.

Anthropic is weighing a $50 billion raise at $900 billion — more than OpenAI's last round. Three months ago it was worth $380 billion. Someone is going to have to explain this math eventually.

Elon Musk testified he was "literally a fool" for funding OpenAI, then confirmed on the stand that xAI trains on OpenAI's models. That was week one.

A senior Nvidia VP said the cost of compute at his company is "far beyond" the cost of employees. That's worth reading twice — especially this week.

Taylor Swift filed trademarks on her voice and likeness on April 24. It's a reasonable legal strategy and a damning sign of where things stand.

Developer JRickey shipped a native PC port of Smash Bros. 64 in 25 days by acting as project manager for Claude and GPT-5.5. The AI got the co-author credit. The humans who did the foundational work did not.

Anthropic got kicked out of a $200M DoD contract and labeled a "supply chain risk" for refusing to let Claude power autonomous weapons. Every other major AI company stood in line with their pens ready.

Beijing ordered Meta to reverse a completed $2B acquisition — after the team was integrated, the code was merged, and the deal was done. "Offshore" turns out to mean nothing.