EU bars AI-generated content from official communications, according to Politico
Politico reports that the Commission, Parliament, and Council have barred their press teams from using fully AI-generated content. Experts see a missed opportunity.
Perplexity AI is facing a class-action lawsuit. The company is accused of sharing personal user data from chats with Meta and Google, Bloomberg reports. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco.
According to the complaint, trackers are downloaded onto users' devices as soon as they log into Perplexity's home page. That is not unusual for many websites. What makes the allegation serious is the further claim: the trackers allegedly give Meta and Google access to conversations with the AI search engine. According to the lawsuit, this also applies when users enable "Incognito" mode.
The suit was filed on behalf of a man from Utah who says he shared financial and tax information with the chatbot. If certified, additional plaintiffs may join. Meta pointed to its policies, which prohibit advertisers from submitting sensitive data. Perplexity spokesperson Jesse Dwyer said the company has not been served with any such lawsuit. Google did not immediately comment.
OpenAI has officially closed its latest funding round. The company raised $122 billion at a valuation of $852 billion. Key backers include Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, and Microsoft, along with a16z, BlackRock, Sequoia Capital, and several other investors. Private investors put in $3 billion through banking channels, and the company also expanded its credit line to $4.7 billion.
OpenAI says it's now pulling in $2 billion in monthly revenue and has crossed 900 million weekly active ChatGPT users. The company also officially unveiled the ChatGPT Super App, a single product that rolls together ChatGPT, the Codex coding agent, web search, and what OpenAI describes as "our broader agentic capabilities into one agent-first experience."
The bulk of the new capital will go toward computing infrastructure. OpenAI is clearly leaning harder into enterprise going forward; the company recently killed off its Sora video model to free up compute and because it wasn't gaining traction anyway. Enterprise already accounts for more than 40 percent of the company's total revenue. "Our consumer scale becomes the front door for enterprise usage, as familiarity in daily life drives adoption at work," OpenAI writes.
Oracle is laying off thousands of employees to fund its AI infrastructure push.Business Insider broke the story, and CNBC confirmed the cuts through two anonymous sources. Oracle, which had 162,000 employees as of May 2025, declined to comment.
The cuts stem from Oracle's aggressive AI spending, which has pushed the company into debt as cash flow shrinks. Since announcing plans to raise $50 billion in January, the stock has lost roughly a quarter of its value. TD Cowen analysts estimate that eliminating 20,000 to 30,000 positions could free up as much as $10 billion in cash flow.
On an earnings call, co-CEO Clay Magouyrk defended the spending, saying AI hardware demand outpaces supply. He pointed to $553 billion in guaranteed revenue, including a $455 billion order from OpenAI. But whether OpenAI can actually pay up remains unclear; the ChatGPT maker is also burning through cash at a rapid clip.
Anthropic inadvertently published parts of the source code for its AI coding tool, Claude Code. Developers discovered more than 500,000 lines of source code and over 1,000 related files on NPM, a public repository where developers share JavaScript software packages. When publishing Claude Code as an NPM package, Anthropic accidentally included far more internal files than intended, including details about how the tool works and references to unreleased models and features.
Anthropic says the leak was caused "by human error," not a security vulnerability, and that no customer data was affected. The company is working on measures to prevent similar incidents. This is Anthropic's second leak in just days, coming right on the heels of internal blog posts about their new Mythos AI model accidentally slipping out.
Google Deepmind is launching Veo 3.1 Lite, its most affordable video generation model yet. It costs less than half the price of Veo 3.1 Fast but matches its speed, according to Google. The company doesn't specify quality differences between the three tiers.
Veo 3.1 Lite supports text-to-video and image-to-video at 720p and 1080p in portrait and landscape formats, with clips of 4, 6, or 8 seconds. Pricing starts at $0.05 per second for 720p. Starting April 7, Google is also dropping Veo 3.1 Fast prices.
AI infrastructure company Nebius Group is building a 310-megawatt data center in Lappeenranta, Finland, close to the Russian border. The project is valued at over $10 billion and would become one of the largest AI data centers in Europe. Finnish developer Polarnode is already constructing the facility, with a phased launch planned starting in 2027.
Nebius recently signed contracts totaling more than $40 billion with Microsoft and Meta. The new data center will train AI models and run AI applications but isn't tied to a single customer. Nebius picked Finland for its low energy prices, renewable power, and cool climate, all of which help cut cooling costs. The facility would be the company's largest site outside the US and is expected to cover roughly 10 percent of Nebius' total planned capacity, according to CEO Arkady Volozh.
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Monday requiring companies with state contracts to implement safeguards against AI misuse. Specifically, companies must ensure their AI systems don't generate illegal content, reinforce harmful biases, or violate civil rights. To prevent misinformation, state agencies will also be required to watermark AI-generated images and videos.
The order includes a separate provision for handling federal directives: if the U.S. federal government designates a company as a supply chain risk, California will conduct its own review and potentially continue working with that vendor. This comes in the wake of the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk, which bars government contractors from using Anthropic's technology for U.S. military work.
Within 120 days, California's procurement and technology agencies are expected to develop recommendations for new AI certifications. These would let companies demonstrate compliance with responsible AI practices and public safety protections.
The executive order reinforces California's push to chart its own course on AI regulation, independent of the Trump administration, which has repeatedly tried to block independent state-level AI laws.
