Edition Summary (20 Pages)

AI safety and governance dominated the edition as Anthropic’s Dario Amodei urged a slower pace at the frontier, with OpenAI, Microsoft and other industry leaders backing greater restraint while governments debated how enforceable guardrails might work. OpenAI also ruled out a 2026 IPO amid safety concerns while launching GPT-6 Astra, as Microsoft expanded Copilot with Grok and Google pushed Gemini further onto the desktop. Investment and infrastructure remained intense: Mistral raised €3 billion, Nvidia pursued major AI partnerships, and Microsoft and Oracle continued large-scale data-centre expansion despite mounting capital and restructuring pressures. Privacy, security and accountability concerns also featured prominently, including scrutiny of Meta’s AI products and reports of autonomous-agent misuse.