Berlin court rules Google's AI Overviews are just a new search format, not original content
A Berlin court has ruled that Google’s AI-generated summaries are just a “new search result format” and that Google has no “decisive influence” over the content. A perfume company had sued because AI search displayed its brand names alongside cheaper knockoffs and linked to their websites. The ruling partly contradicts a recent Munich decision that held Google directly liable for false AI responses, though the two cases are quite different.
US Justice Department calls xAI's chatbot Grok essential to military operations, defending its controversial gas turbines.
In a filing to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the NAACP, the Department of Justice argues that the suit "threatens American national, economic, and energy security by seeking to shut off the power supply for artificial-intelligence innovation that supports the Department of War's military operations." According to a statement by Cameron Stanley, Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer at the Department of Defense, Grok is one of just four AI models that "support mission-critical operations across Secret and Top-Secret classified networks" - including recent strikes against Iran.
The NAACP filed suit because xAI, which is part of SpaceX, runs unpermitted gas turbines at its Colossus 2 facility in Southaven, Mississippi. According to the Southern Environmental Law Center, the number of turbines has grown from 27 to 57 since April, driving a 111 percent spike in nitrogen oxide emissions. Beyond Colossus 2, Elon Musk's company operates just one other major data center.
The Institute of the Estonian Language has released a benchmark measuring how susceptible AI language models are to Russian propaganda. Sixty models were tested with 75 questions in three languages covering 14 propaganda narratives, phrased in neutral, biased, and manipulative ways. Each answer is scored on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 means the model repeats Russian talking points.
A calibrated Claude Opus 4.5 served as the evaluation model, validated by disinformation experts at the organization Propastop. Anthropic's Claude models claimed the top spots, followed by Nvidia's Nemotron 3 and Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 Plus. Mistral's models, including the newest Medium 3.5, landed in the bottom third. The models had no access to web search or other tools during testing, so the benchmark only measures how well the language model itself can spot and reject propaganda.
Anthropic models dominate the benchmark for detecting Russian disinformation: Claude Fable 5, which is currently disabled outside the U.S., leads with a score of 95.2, followed by Claude Opus 4.7.
The results line up with a Newsguard study that found Mistral had a steady misinformation rate of 36.67 percent. That's a bad look for the French company, which positions itself as a European alternative to US and Chinese providers and is currently negotiating a 3 billion euro funding round at a 20 billion euro valuation. It's especially rough since Mistral's flagship models already struggle to keep up with the competition.
The threat is real. Russian networks like "Pravda" deliberately feed AI systems millions of disinformation articles. And OpenAI recently shut down a Russian campaign that used ChatGPT to spread propaganda ahead of Germany's federal election.
Nvidia wants to raise at least $20 billion through its first bond sale since 2021, Bloomberg reports, citing people with direct knowledge of the deal. The chipmaker is offering bonds in seven tranches with maturities ranging from two to 30 years. The longest tranche carries a spread of about 0.9 percentage points above U.S. Treasuries.
Nvidia plans to use the proceeds for general corporate purposes, including refinancing existing debt. JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs are among the banks managing the sale.
The deal fits into an ongoing wave of corporate bond sales. Companies like Alphabet and Amazon have raised hundreds of billions of dollars since last year to build out computing capacity for AI. Nvidia's last bond sale was in June 2021, when it raised $5 billion.
Anthropic shutdown sparks sovereignty debate across Europe
The European Commission is assessing the implications of the US order that forced Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide. European researchers are debating the right response: building their own foundation models or securing access through contracts. But building out homegrown infrastructure would require computing capacity, energy, and competitive providers that Europe currently lacks, experts warn.
Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don’t apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google’s AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn’t appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for AI-generated content liability worldwide.
