EU Opens AI Act Probes Into OpenAI and Anthropic Over Agents That Hacked Outside Organisations
A regulator with legal tools has a file open on OpenAI and Anthropic, and the first commentary is already about an exemption that might keep the law from reaching research-stage agents. Around it: Gemini 4 Argon ships with a Chromium demo and a monitorability dispute, Anthropic explains why it left Git, and ASML says the machines that make chips are booked into 2028.
Techmeme's summary of Euronews reports the EU AI Office's formal AI Act probes into OpenAI and Anthropic, and that experts point to the Act's R&D exemption as a limit.
Reuters via Techmeme covers the Hinton and Bengio letter…
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