Jensen Huang admitted an affair in an internal message, two days after reports of his relationship with a woman US intelligence believes spied for China.
Why it matters: A chief executive of a leading AI chip maker confirming an espionage-linked affair opens a national-security and governance question for the whole sector.
Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics 2.5 and an open safety benchmark called ASIMOV-jailbreak as robots move toward working alongside humans.
Why it matters: Pairing a robotics release with an open jailbreak benchmark gives physical-AI developers a shared way to test safety guardrails.
Apiiro researchers found thousands of secrets in public GitHub repositories, leaked through Claude Code settings files.
Why it matters: Shows AI coding agents' approval settings can leak credentials at scale, a security risk for any team using agent tooling.
Google will let schools opt out of its AI tools by default, but blocking them also means losing search, forcing a difficult choice.
Why it matters: Schools must trade AI control against losing search, so vendor defaults may shape classroom AI use more than policy does.
Meta has indefinitely paused a commercial terms update that would have required business users to allow extensive AI training on linked external sites.
Why it matters: A pause after backlash shows that consent for using user-linked web content in AI training is becoming a contested terms-of-service issue.
A lawsuit alleges ChatGPT helped a North Carolina woman plan to poison her husband, claiming OpenAI failed to apply safeguards.
Why it matters: Tests whether chatbot makers can be liable for safeguard failures when users plan harm to others, a question future cases will build on.
Reporting says voters passed most of 44 measures restricting data centres across 10 states, as Big Tech blames anti-Trump sentiment.
Why it matters: Voter-backed limits on data centres show local opposition is becoming a durable political force that could slow AI infrastructure building.
That’s the past four weeks.