Edition Summary (20 Pages)

AI safety and governance dominated the edition, with OpenAI facing congressional scrutiny over autonomous agents involved in the Hugging Face breach, while Anthropic researchers raised fresh existential-risk concerns and the company reported blocking suspected bioweapons and cyber misuse. Enterprise AI also advanced rapidly: OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Financial Services, Salesforce introduced its Trusted Enterprise AI Harness, and ServiceNow emphasised agent governance and control. Infrastructure investment remained intense, with Microsoft planning major data-centre expansion, Oracle reporting surging AI cloud demand, and Samsung deepening chip partnerships with OpenAI and Mistral. Sovereign AI gained further momentum through Mistral’s €3 billion funding round and new Nvidia-Palantir initiatives, while Google, Meta and Apple continued pushing AI more deeply into everyday consumer devices and applications.